The Geiss Hsu Foundation is pleased to share that an open-access edition of Jesuits and Matriarchs: Domestic Worship in Early Modern China by Nadine Amsler (University of Washington Press, 2018) is available to read online. The original publication was supported in part by a subvention award from the Geiss Hsu Foundation.
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New Board Members
The Geiss Hsu Foundation is pleased to welcome Zoe S. Kwok to the Board of Directors. Her three-year term will begin in spring 2021. A specialist in Chinese Art, Kwok is Associate Curator of Asian Art at the Princeton University Art Museum, and earned a PhD from Princeton University. Other recent additions to the board […]
Spring 2020 Awards
The Board of Directors of the James P. Geiss and Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation is delighted to announce the recipients of their spring 2020 awards, made in support of publications and projects that confirm the Foundation’s mission. In the category of publication subventions: Columbia University Press, In Remembrance of the Saints: The Rise and Fall of an […]
Fall 2019 Awards
The James P. Geiss and Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation is pleased to announce the recipients of its fall 2019 awards, made in support of publications and projects that confirm its mission. In the category of publication subventions: Columbia University Press, The Diary of 1636: The Second Manchu Invasion of Korea, translated by George L. Kallander Columbia University […]
New Web Site
The James P. Geiss and Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation has a new web site! Please visit to learn more about the Foundation’s mission, the types of supported activities, and upcoming deadlines to apply for awards. Sign up for the new email newsletter to keep informed about application deadlines, projects funded by the Geiss Hsu Foundation, […]
Exile to the Stage
Congratulations to Columbia University Press, which received a spring subvention award for its forthcoming publication, Exile to the Stage: Costuming and Personhood in Early Qing Drama, by Guojun Wang, assistant professor of Asian Studies at Vanderbilt University. Exile to the Stage examines theatrical costuming in drama texts and performances of 17th-century China when the Manchu rulers regulated hairstyle […]
2018 Awards
The Board of Directors of the James P. Geiss and Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation is pleased to announce awards made in spring and autumn 2018 for publication subventions and projects. Awards for publication subventions were made to the following scholarly presses: Cambridge University Press, for The City of Blue and White: Chinese Porcelain and the […]