GHF is pleased to announce that Three Impeachments: Guo Xiu and the Kangxi Court by R. Kent Guy has just been published by the University of Washington Press. The press received a publication subvention from the Foundation in 2023 to support the publication of both the print and open-access versions of the book.
Year: 2024
Call for Applications: Geiss Hsu Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in Ming Studies
Application deadline: January 15, 2025 The University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver campus, invites applications for the Geiss Hsu Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in Ming Studies, starting September 1, 2025. This two-year fellowship will support a scholar in any discipline who studies the Ming Dynasty or a closely-related field, including research that connects the Ming with […]
Fall 2024 Awards
The Board of Directors of the James P. Geiss & Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation is pleased to announce thirteen awards made during the fall application cycle: SUBVENTIONS Print & Open Access Publication Wading Barefoot through a Mountain Stream: The Travel Diaries of Xu Xiake (1587-1641), James Hargett, lead translator and editor I University of Washington […]
The Peach Blossom Fan: Theater, Trauma, and Translation
Funded by a project award from the Geiss-Hsu Foundation The Peach Blossom Fan is one of the most important plays in Chinese history. It is also a masterpiece of world literature, acclaimed for the sophisticated ways it uses the tools of the theater to reflect on historical trauma and memory. Wai-yee Li’s annotated translation renders this […]
New Fellowship Opportunities
GHF is partnering with the National Humanities Center to support residential fellowships for emerging, mid-career, or senior scholars studying China and its world, during and adjacent to the Ming dynasty. The National Humanities Center welcomes fellowship applications from scholars engaged in the study of China and its world, during and adjacent to the Ming dynasty (1368–1644). The […]
Spring Award Winners
The Board of Directors of the James P. Geiss & Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation is pleased to announce three awards made during the spring application cycle: SUBVENTIONS The Empress and the Dragon Throne: Women in the Imperial Family in the First Hundred Years of China’s Ming Dynasty by Ellen Soulliere I Hong Kong University Press, forthcoming spring […]
Thinking Through Performance in China
April 12 & 13, 2024, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. 2 DIVINITY AVEYENCHING COMMON ROOMCAMBRIDGE, MA 02138 This GHF-funded workshop reconsiders the significance of critical writings about acting, singing, and theatrical performance in China (c.1200–1850). How did artists, intellectuals, and critics reflect on experiences of watching or listening to live performance? How did the act […]
Apply Today! Ming Book Course
GHF is proud to support The Book in Ming China: History & Analysis, a Rare Book School Course for advanced PhD students to established scholars at Princeton University from July 21 – 26, 2024. The course will introduce the collection of some 2,000 Ming editions held at the East Asian Library and elsewhere in the Princeton University Library system. […]
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The Society for Ming Studies Announces Inaugural Geiss-Hsu Book Prize Winners
The Society for Ming Studies’ Geiss-Hsu Book Prize Selection Committee announced that it has awarded the prize for the best overall book in Ming Studies, published between 2019 and 2022, to The Dreaming Mind and the End of the Ming World by Lynn Struve (University of Hawai’i Press, 2019), and the prize for the best first book […]