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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!

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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. Image: An award from GHF allowed graduate students to present their work at the Society for Ming Studies’ Annual Meeting […]

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

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, […]