Year: 2021

GHF awarded funding to the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) to support participant travel to the 2022 Annual Conference in Honolulu, Hawaii, March 24-27, 2022. 

The Geiss Hsu Annual Conference Travel Grant will award up to $2,000 each in travel support to scholars who engage in research related to the Ming. Applicants do not need to be AAS members or part of an organized session. Preference will be given to contingent or part-time faculty, students, and independent scholars. 

Visit the AAS website for more information.

Congratulations to Columbia University Press and University of Washington Press on receiving publication subventions during GHF’s fall funding cycle:

Columbia University Press

• The Promise and Peril of Things: Literature and Material Culture in Late Imperial China by Wai-Yee Li 
• The Fragrant Companions by Li Yu, translated by Stephen Roddy and Ying Wang 
• The Substance of Fiction: Literary Objects in China, 1550–1775 by Sophie Vlopp 

University of Washington Press

• The Tibetan Nun Mingyur Peldrön: A Woman of Power and Privilege by Alison Melnick Dyer*
• A Ming Confucian’s World: Selections from Miscellaneous Records from the Bean Gardenby Lu Rong, translated and introduced by Mark Halperin*
• China Made: Technocratic Culture in the Qing Imperial Porcelain Industry, 1680–1750 by Kaijun Chen

*Award supports both print and open-access versions

A GHF subvention supported Becoming Guanyin, winner of the 2021 American Academy of Religion’s Religion and the Arts Book Award. 

GHF funds activities that encourage scholarship of the Ming Dynasty, predecessors and successors of the Ming, as well as contemporaries in geographic areas with which the Ming interacted.

Apply for the Project Award to support:

• Scholarly conferences
• Workshops
• Manuscript review workshops
• Museum exhibitions
• Performances
• Open-access publishing of previously-released books
• K-12 programming and public outreach
• Academic fellowships
• Any other type of activity that supports the Foundation’s mission

Apply for the Subvention Award to support:

• Not-for-profit book publishing
• Open-access publishing of new titles
• Indexing, image rights, editing, and other fees borne by authors

Fall Application Deadline: September 1, 2021

A GHF subvention award to the University of Michigan Press supported both the print and open-access versions of Writing Pirates: Vernacular Fiction and Oceans in Late Ming China by Yuanfei Wang. 

GHF recently awarded support for two open-access publishing projects during the spring 2021 awards cycle. 

University of Washington Press will create open-access editions of ten previously-published books on the Ming dynasty: 

• Vignettes from the Late Ming: A Hsiao-p’in Anthology, translated by Yang Ye (1999) 
• Perpetual Happiness: The Ming Emperor Yongle by Shih-shan Henry Tsai (2001)
• The Story of Han Xiangzi: The Alchemical Adventures of a Daoist Immortal by Erzeng Yang, translated by Philip Clart (2007)
• The Mandate of Heaven and The Great Ming Code by Yonglin Jiang (2011)
• The Scholar and the State: Fiction as Political Discourse in Late Imperial China by Liangyan Ge (2014)
• Novel Medicine: Healing, Literature, and Popular Knowledge in Early Modern China by Andrew Schonebaum (2016)
• Confucian Image Politics: Masculine Morality in Seventeenth-Century China by Ying Zhang (2016)*
• Symptoms of an Unruly Age: Li Zhi and Cultures of Early Modernity by Rivi Handler-Spitz (2017)*
• Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China by Ian M. Miller (2020)*
• The Objectionable Li Zhi: Fiction, Criticism, and Dissent in Late Ming China, edited by Rivi Handler-Spitz, Pauline C. Lee and Haun Saussy (2021)*

University of Hawai’i Press will produce an open-access version of The Dreaming Mind and the End of the Ming World by Lynn A. Struve (2019).

*GHF previously supported the print editions of these titles

GHF is delighted to announce that it has issued a project award to the National Humanities Center in support of a Geiss Hsu Foundation Fellowship for Johan Elverskog for the 2021–2022 academic year. During the fellowship year, Dr. Elverskog, Dedman Family Distinguished Professor, Professor of Religious Studies at Southern Methodist University, will work on a project examining the history of Uighur Buddhism from 800 to 1800 CE.

Congratulations to Cambridge University Press and the Harvard Asia Center Publications Program, which received subvention awards to support the print publications of The Aura of Confucius: Relics and Representations of the Sage at the Kongzhai Shrine in Shanghai by Julia K. Murray (Cambridge, forthcoming October 2021) and Localizing Learning: Literati and Learning in Wuzhou, 1100-1600 by Peter K. Bol (Harvard, forthcoming February 2022).