The Executive Committee of the Ming-Qing Forum of the Modern Languages Association is pleased to announce the Geiss-Hsu Travel Grant to support participation in the 2024 MLA annual convention by scholars of the Ming and adjacent periods. Convention participants (panel presenters, discussants, or organizers) may apply for grants of up to a maximum of $2,000 to reimburse the costs of conference […]
Year: 2023
Fall Awards Announcement
The Board of Directors of the Geiss Hsu Foundation is delighted to announce awards made during the fall application cycle. Congratulations to the awardees! PROJECTS Books in Ming China, a Rare Book School Course at Princeton In collaboration with the Princeton University Library, Rare Book School will offer a new course on Books in Ming […]
Spring Award Selections
The Geiss Hsu Foundation (GHF) is pleased to announce six awards made during the spring application cycle in support of projects that advance scholarship and interpretation of the Ming dynasty and adjacent time periods and peoples. Arizona State University I Sookja Cho, associate professor of Korean and comparative literature, Arizona State University, with Joonyoun Kim, […]
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“Flowers on a River” Exhibit Named Top 5 Pick
An award from the Geiss Hsu Foundation helped make possible China Institute’s “Flower on a River” exhibition, named a Top 5 Pick by PBS Channel 13 NYC-Arts!
National Humanities Center Announces Geiss Hsu Fellow
Congratulations to Xiaolin Duan, associate professor of Chinese history in the Department of History at the North Carolina State University, who has been appointed to the Geiss Hsu Fellowship at the National Humanities Center for the 2023-2024 academic year. During her fellowship, Duan will work on an individual research project titled Three Cities of the Early Modern Pacific: Connections […]
New Titles Added to Open Access Collection
Sixteen books related to scholarship on the Ming dynasty and adjacent peoples and territories are now available through University of Washington Press Geiss Hsu Foundation Open Access Books. In 2021, GHF supported a project to make ten University of Washington Press titles open access, and has subsequently awarded funds to add more books to this […]
New Voices in Ming Studies: Nine Research Presentations
All 2023 Association for Asian Studies Conference attendees are invited to the New Voices in Ming Studies: Nine Research Presentations session, to be held during the Society for Ming Studies’ Annual Meeting on Friday, March 17, 2023 at 7:30 p.m. at the Sheraton Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts. Nine graduate students will give ten-minute research presentations […]
GHF-Funded Book Wins AAS Prize
The Geiss Hsu Foundation is delighted to share that Aurelia Campbell has been awarded the Bei Shan Tang Monograph Prize in Chinese Art History for her monograph What the Emperor Built: Architecture and Empire in the Early Ming. The prize will be awarded at the Association for Asian Studies Conference 2023 Awards Ceremony on Saturday, […]
Apply Now for Spring Funding!
GHF is now accepting applications through March 1, 2023. Project awards fund activities that confirm GHF’s mission, such as exhibitions, performances, K-12 outreach, conferences, and more. Subvention awards support not-for-profit presses in publishing print and open-access books that align with the Foundation’s mission and goals. Image: A GHF project award supported the conference “How Is China Governed? From Ming Statecraft to Xi’s New […]