The Society for Ming Studies (SMS) invites current PhD students to participate in a graduate student symposium at the SMS Annual Meeting, to be held from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. on Friday, March 13, 2026, in conjunction with the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference in Vancouver, Canada. Each participant will give a […]
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Fall 2025 Awards
The Board of Directors of the James P. Geiss & Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation is delighted to announce six awards supporting projects that advance the field of Ming studies: CONFERENCES The Great Entanglement: Reframing East Eurasian Histories in the Longue Durée | Shoufu Yin, University of British Columbia, and Mara Yue Du, Cornell University | March […]
Apply for a Fellowship!
The National Humanities Center and GHF are partnering to provide a residential fellowship to a scholar studying the Ming dynasty or of adjacent regions and time periods. The NHC invites applications for academic-year or semester-long residential fellowships. Fellows enjoy private studies, in-house dining, and superb library services that deliver all types of research materials while they are in residence.Mid-career, senior, and […]
Spring 2025 Awards
The Board of Directors of the James P. Geiss & Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation is delighted to announce nine awards made during the spring application cycle: SUBVENTIONS Observing the Unseen: Curiosity and Common Knowledge in Early Modern China by Andrew Schonebaum I University of Washington Press, forthcoming December 2025 Observing the Unseen explores perspectives in early-modern China around […]
The National Humanities Center Announces 2025–26 Geiss Hsu Fellow
The National Humanities Center (NHC) recently announced the appointment of Ruiying Gao, assistant professor of the history of art and architecture at Wake Forest University, as the Geiss Hsu Fellow for the 2025–26 academic year. Professor Gao will join 31 other leading scholars who will come to the Center from universities and colleges in 13 US states and the District of […]
The Society for Ming Studies Announces Geiss Hsu Book Prize Winner
The Society for Ming Studies’ Geiss Hsu Book Prize Selection Committee announced that it has awarded this year’s prize to to Keith McMahon for his book Saying All that Can be Said: The Art of Describing Sex in Jin Ping Mei. The committee shared the following statement: In his magisterial Saying All that Can be Said: The […]
New Publication: Three Impeachments
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.
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 […]