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 […]
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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 […]
Apply Today! MLA Travel Grant
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 […]
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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