Year: 2023

Project awards from the Geiss Hsu Foundation to the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) and the Society for Ming Studies will fund travel to the AAS Annual Conference, which takes place in Boston, MA from March 16-19, 2023.

• AAS offered GHF-funded grants for scholars of the Ming dynasty and Ming-adjacent peoples to attend virtually or in person.
• With support from GHF, graduate students will present their research during the Society for Ming Studies’ Annual Meeting to encourage Ming research and engagement at the junior scholar level.

Image: An award from GHF allowed graduate students to present their work at the Society for Ming Studies’ Annual Meeting at the 2022 AAS Conference. GHF will support another cohort in March 2023.

Subventions from GHF supported two books set to be published next month:

• Porcelain for the Emperor: Manufacture and Technocracy in Qing Chinaby Kai Jun Chen, University of Washington Press, March 2023
• The Precious Summary: A History of the Mongols from Chinggis Khan to the Qing Dynasty by Sagang Sechen, translated by Johan Elverskog, Columbia University Press, March 2023

A project award from GHF helped make possible Flowers on a River: The Art of Chinese Flower and Bird Painting, 1368 – 1911, Masterworks from Tianjin Museum and Changzhou Museum, which opens this spring at the China Institute Gallery in New York City.

Image: Zhu Da (1626–1705), Flowers on a River. Qing dynasty. Hand scroll; ink on paper, image size: 18 1/2  × 508 7/8 in. (47 × 1292.5 cm). Collection of the Tianjin Museum