Welcome to the Society for Song, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasties Studies (SSYCDS) website. The Society is an international, scholarly, non-political, and nonprofit professional association of all persons interested in the study of Chinese, Jurchen, Khitan, Tangut, and Mongol history. Incorporated as a nonprofit corporation in 2011, the SSYCDS has been granted federal 501(c)3 nonprofit status.
The mission of the Society for Song, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasties Studies is to create a dynamic resource for university professors, graduate students, and independent scholars interested in the cultures of China from the tenth century and the founding of the Song and Liao dynasties to the end of the Yuan dynasty in the fourteenth century.
The Association for Asian Studies has announced the accepted panels for its 2025 Annual Conference, to be held in-person from March 13–16 in Columbus, Ohio. The Society for Song, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasties Studies will again offer sponsorship for two AAS panels in our research timeframe (10th–14th centuries). We will prioritize funding for panels that focus on the Society’s timeframe but will also consider sponsoring panels that include individual papers that fall outside it.
The selected panels will receive official recognition by the Society on the conference program and on our Society website as well as a small grant of $200/person to offset the costs of participation for up to six (6) participants (typically four panelists, a discussant, and a panel chair).
Additionally, organizers of award-winning panels are encouraged to request a supplementary grant of up to $500/panel to support travel costs. These supplemental funds will be awarded according to demonstrated need, with a preference for emerging scholars.
If you would like to apply for SSYCDS sponsorship for your panel, please send your CV, panel proposal, individual paper abstracts, and the names and contact information of panel participants to the SSYCDS Secretary Professor Yiwen Li (yiwenli@cityu.edu.hk) by November 30, 2024.
Please note that panelists must be members of the Society to receive support. Although participants are not required to be members at the time of application, all sponsored panel participants are required to pay membership dues for 2025 prior to January 31, 2025. For more information about membership and SSYCDS, please see our website: https://www.songyuan.org/membership.html.
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UC Santa Barbara's Department of East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies is pleased to host "New Approaches to Traditional Chinese Food Culture: A Workshop" on March 9-10, 2024, organized by Thomas Mazanec and Wandi Wang. This in-person workshop, featuring papers by 15 leading scholars from 11 institutions across the globe, will bridge sinology and food studies, presenting innovative approaches to the intersection of food and culture in China from the fifth to the twentieth century. It will demonstrate how food studies can enrich the understanding of historical Chinese literature, religion, history, medicine, and material culture, and how methods from these disciplines can bring new questions to food studies.
In-person attendance is open to all, provided that they register (for free) at tinyurl.com/ChineseFoodWorkshop by March 4. This is an in-person workshop, so there will be no Zoom component.
The SSYCDS Annual Meeting will take place at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference in Seattle, on Saturday, March 16, 2023, from 12:15 PM-1:45 PM PST, in the Seneca room in the Sheraton Grand Seattle. The meeting is an opportunity to connect with friends old and new and learn of recent scholarship in the field. We will also be showcasing the newly-published Volume 52 of the Journal of Song-Yuan Studies. Please join us and share news of your recent research projects! A full lunch buffet will be served.
2:00-3:30pm, Friday, March 15, 2024
Organizers: Wanmeng Li and Jiangnan Li
Panelists: Jiangnan Li, Wanmeng Li, Hanruo Zhang, Ting Cheung Wong
Chair: Charles M. Hartman
Discussant: Thomas Mazanec
4:00-5:30pm, Friday, March 15, 2024
Organizer: Yung-chang Tung
Panelists: Cong Ellen Zhang, Lik Hang Tsui, Zoe Shan Lin, Yung-chang Tung
Chair: Beverly Bossler
Discussant: Beverly Bossler
