Between Filial Piety and Political Duty in Post-Handover Hong Kong Book Talk by Dr. Ting Guo
Schedule
Tue Mar 10 2026 at 02:00 pm to 02:45 pm
UTC-07:00Location
UBC Asian Centre | Vancouver, BC
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Join us for the book talk presented by Dr. Ting Guo (Assistant Professor of Language Studies, University of Toronto) who will be sharing her book Religion, Secularism, and Love as a Political Discourse in Modern China (2025). 📆 Tuesday, 10 March, 2026
⏰ 2:00 - 2:45pm
🎞️ Auditorium, Asian Centre, UBC
Dr. Ting Guo specialises in religion, politics, and gender in transnational Asia. Through her publication, she explores socialist modernity narratives, as well as modern governance and religious nationalism. She is also the Honorary Researcher at the Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library, University of Toronto, and Book Review Editor for the Journal of the American Academy of Religion and co-hosts a podcast called 時差 in-betweenness (@shichapodcast).
The book is the first systematic study to trace the evolution of ai ć„› (love) as a political discourse for modern Chinese nationalism.
This is part of the special program of the Backreading Hong Kong Symposium 2026 University of British Columbia, hosted by UBC Hong Kong Studies Initiative, and UBC Asian Studies; and is supported by the UBC Centre for Chinese Research , UBC Department of English, UBC Campus + Community Planning, and the Sustainability Initiative Committee of the UBC Department of Asian Studies, as well as Cha: An Asian Literary Journal.
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