GHF awarded funding to the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) to support participant travel to the 2023 Annual Conference in Boston, MA. The Geiss Hsu Annual Conference Travel Grant will award up to $2,000 each in travel support to scholars who engage in research related to the Ming. Applicants do not need to be AAS members or part of an organized session. Preference will […]
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Site-Image-Object: Rethinking Place in Chinese Visual and Material Culture
Conference supported in part by the Geiss Hsu Foundation, University of British Columbia, December 7-9, 2022 “Places are constructed and experienced as material ecological artefacts and intricate networks of social relations. They are the focus of the imaginary, of beliefs, longings, and desires (….). They are an intense focus of discursive activity, filled with symbolic […]
Fall Funding – Apply Now!
GHF is now accepting applications through September 1, 2022. 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.
New Releases
GHF funding supported these new and forthcoming titles: Approaches to Teaching The Plum in the Golden Vase (The Golden Lotus), edited by Andrew Schonebaum (Modern Language Association of America) The Culture of Language in Ming China: Sound, Script, and the Redefinition of Boundaries of Knowledge by Nathan Vedal (Columbia University Press) The Fragrant Companions by Li Yu, translated by Stephen Roddy […]
New Board Member
We are pleased to welcome Pauline Yu, President Emeritus, American Council on Learned Societies, to the Geiss Hsu Foundation Board. Dr. Yu will begin her three-year term in September.
Mid-career, senior, and emerging scholars from all areas of the humanities with a strong record of peer-reviewed work are encouraged to apply. In partnership with the James P. Geiss and Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation, the Center welcomes fellowship applications from scholars engaged in the study of early modern China and its world, during and adjacent […]
Award-Winning Books
Two GHF-funded books were recently recognized for excellence: Plum Shadows and Plank Bridge: Two memoirs about Courtesans (Columbia University Press, 2020), edited and translated by Wai-yee Li, won the Association for Asian Studies’ Patrick D. Hanan Book Prize for Translation, given biennially to an outstanding English translation of a significant work in any genre originally written in […]
Opportunities for Scholars of Early Modern China
Residential Fellowships at the National Humanities Center The Geiss Hsu Foundation is pleased to announce a three-year partnership with the National Humanities Center to provide residential fellowship support to a scholar of early modern China and its world, beginning with the 2023–24 academic year and concluding in 2025–26. Applications open July 1. For more information […]
Spring Awards
The Board of Directors of the Geiss Hsu Foundation is delighted to announce awards made during the spring application cycle. These awards support publications, exhibitions, and conferences that advance scholarship and interpretation of the Ming dynasty and adjacent time periods and peoples. Project Awards Exhibition China Institute in America: Flower on a River: The Art […]
Book Launch for THE AURA OF CONFUCIUS: Julia K. Murray in conversation with James Robson
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Department of Art History and the Center for East Asian Studies are pleased to host an online launch for Julia K. Murray’s new book, The Aura of Confucius: Relics and Representations of the Sage at the Kongzhai Shrine in Shanghai (Cambridge University Press), a conversation between the author and Professor James Robson of Harvard University. A subvention award from the Geiss […]