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 […]
Year: 2021
Fall Project Awards
GHF supported a diverse group of projects that encourage scholarship and interpretation of the Ming and their successors: Teacher Resources & Professional Development Asia for Educators, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University: Introducing the Classic Chinese Novels and Historical Context in General Education: Background for Educators National Humanities Center: Teaching the Ming Dynasty: Humanities in Class TeacherNotes Workshops […]
Fall Subvention Awards
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 […]
AAR Award Winner: Becoming Guanyin by Yuhang Li
A GHF subvention supported Becoming Guanyin, winner of the 2021 American Academy of Religion’s Religion and the Arts Book Award.
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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 […]
Now Available: Writing Pirates
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.
Open-Access Publishing Awards
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 […]
National Humanities Center Geiss Hsu Foundation Fellowship
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 […]
New Manuscript Review Workshop Initiative
GHF invites applications for support of manuscript review workshops. Workshops will bring together two to five readers to provide feedback for improving a scholarly monograph that falls within the mission of the Foundation. Workshops may be virtual or in-person. The Geiss Hsu Foundation award may be used as honoraria and for travel, food, and lodging for participants, in the […]
Spring 2021 Subvention Awards
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).