Past Awards

This bound, photocopied, bilingual volume records the proceedings of the international conference held at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in March 2006. Supported by the Geiss Hsu Foundation, the conference examined the personality and career of Zhu Yuanzhang, founder of the Ming Dynasty. It features 31 thematically-related articles, eleven of which were later published by the Chinese University Press as Ming Taizu’s Ideas on Statecraft and Their Implementation.

This project digitized and enhanced a Ming scroll depicting a street in Nanjing during the Lantern Festival marking the end of Lunar New Year. Users zoom in to examine details that were unrecognizable prior to digital enhancement, and click on hotspots to learn more information.

Papers discussed at this conference, the first the Geiss Hsu Foundation supported, were published in Culture, Courtiers, and Competition: The Ming Court (1368–1644). Ed. David M. Robinson. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2008.