Nine junior scholars will present their research during the Annual Meeting of the Society for Ming Studies, held at the Association for Asian Studies Conference in Hawaii. An award from the Geiss Hsu Foundation supported their travel.
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Apply Now for Spring Funding!
GHF supports activities that encourage scholarship of the Ming Dynasty, predecessors and successors of the Ming, as well as contemporaries in geographic areas with which the Ming interacted.
Apply for the Project Award to support:
- Scholarly conferences
- Manuscript review workshops
- Museum exhibitions
- Performances
- Open-access publishing of previously-released books
- K-12 programming and public outreach
- Academic fellowships
- Any other type of activity that supports the Foundation’s mission
Apply for the Subvention Award to support:
- Not-for-profit book publishing
- Open-access publishing of new titles
- Indexing, image rights, editing, and other fees borne by authors
Applications due March 1, 2022
New Board Members
The Board of Directors welcomes to their ranks He Bian, associate professor of history and East Asian studies at Princeton University, and Bruce Rusk, associate professor in the department of East Asian studies at the University of British Columbia. Their three-year terms begin this spring.
Now Available! New GHF-Supported Title
A subvention award from GHF supported this recently-published book by Julia K. Murray.
Apply Now! GHF Annual Conference Travel Grant
GHF awarded funding to the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) to support participant travel to the 2022 Annual Conference in Honolulu, Hawaii, March 24-27, 2022.
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 be given to contingent or part-time faculty, students, and independent scholars.
Visit the AAS website for more information.
Fall Project Awards
GHF supported a diverse group of projects that encourage scholarship and interpretation of the Ming and their successors:
Teacher Resources & Professional Development
- Asia for Educators, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University: Introducing the Classic Chinese Novels and Historical Context in General Education: Background for Educators
- National Humanities Center: Teaching the Ming Dynasty: Humanities in Class TeacherNotes
Workshops & Conferences
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Manuscript Review Workshop for Laws of the Land: Fengshui and Administration in Qing China by Tristan G. Brown
- Vanderbilt University, in partnership with the University of Tennessee Knoxville: The Southeast US Scholars and Friends of Late Imperial China’s China and the World Conference
Crowdsourcing Platform
- Harvard University: Ming Letters Crowdsourcing Platform
Scholarships & Travel Grants
- Association for Asian Studies: Geiss Hsu Annual Conference Travel Grant
- Rare Book School: James P. Geiss and Margaret Y. Hsu Scholarships
- Society for Ming Studies: The Next Generation of Ming Scholars: A Brief Research Presentation
Fall Subvention Awards
Congratulations to Columbia University Press and University of Washington Press on receiving publication subventions during GHF’s fall funding cycle:
Columbia University Press
- The Promise and Peril of Things: Literature and Material Culture in Late Imperial China by Wai-Yee Li
- The Fragrant Companions by Li Yu, translated by Stephen Roddy and Ying Wang
- The Substance of Fiction: Literary Objects in China, 1550–1775 by Sophie Vlopp
University of Washington Press
- The Tibetan Nun Mingyur Peldrön: A Woman of Power and Privilege by Alison Melnick Dyer*
- A Ming Confucian’s World: Selections from Miscellaneous Records from the Bean Gardenby Lu Rong, translated and introduced by Mark Halperin*
- China Made: Technocratic Culture in the Qing Imperial Porcelain Industry, 1680–1750 by Kaijun Chen
*Award supports both print and open-access versions
AAR Award Winner: Becoming Guanyin by Yuhang Li
A GHF subvention supported Becoming Guanyin, winner of the 2021 American Academy of Religion’s Religion and the Arts Book Award.
Apply Now for Fall Funding!
GHF funds activities that encourage scholarship of the Ming Dynasty, predecessors and successors of the Ming, as well as contemporaries in geographic areas with which the Ming interacted.
Apply for the Project Award to support:
- Scholarly conferences
- Workshops
- Manuscript review workshops
- Museum exhibitions
- Performances
- Open-access publishing of previously-released books
- K-12 programming and public outreach
- Academic fellowships
- Any other type of activity that supports the Foundation’s mission
Apply for the Subvention Award to support:
- Not-for-profit book publishing
- Open-access publishing of new titles
- Indexing, image rights, editing, and other fees borne by authors
Fall Application Deadline: September 1, 2021
Now Available: Writing Pirates
A GHF subvention award to the University of Michigan Press supported both the print and open-access versions of Writing Pirates: Vernacular Fiction and Oceans in Late Ming China by Yuanfei Wang.