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.
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SSYCDS Annual Meeting will take place at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference in Vancouver, on Saturday, March 14, 12:15-1:45PM in Waterfront Ballroom B at the Fairmont Waterfront. We are ordering dim sum this year. Please come early for a hot lunch and a chance to catch up with colleagues. If you have a publication from the past year and would like to share the news, please send the details to our secretary, Professor Yiwen Li, at yiwenli@cityu.edu.hk. We look forward to celebrating your new articles and books with the community.
3:30PM-5:00PM PDT, Friday, March 13, 2026, VCC Room 206
Organizer: Ting Cheung Wong
Panelists: Ting Cheung Wong, Qian Zhan, Wuliang Qu, Ruixue Zhou
Chair: Linda Walton
Discussant: Peter Bol
8:30AM-10:00AM PDT, Saturday, March 14, 2026, VCC Room 209
Organizers: Lucien Sun
Panelists: Xiaoshan Yang, Lucien Sun, Elizabeth Kindall
Chair: Benjamin Ridgway
Discussant: Cong Zhang
