I.A. SOCIETIES, NEWSLETTERS, AND JOURNALS

Societies

Japan:
Sōdaishi kenkyūkai 宋代史研究会 (Society for Song Studies):
http://home.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/songdai/songdaishi-yanjiuhui.htm

This site contains announcements for and reports on the annual meetings of the society, links to related sites, a bibliography of Japanese scholarship on Song studies (1982-2002) and a directory of Japanese scholars working in the field.

Established in 1997 as a forum and reading group for young scholars of Song history active in Kyoto-Osaka-Kobe region. Includes meeting information, list of readings, and an announcement board.

Includes announcements and a mailing list. Registration is required to get access to the full site.

Includes annual meeting reports, a bibliography of Japanese research on ci, the table of contents of the association’s periodical Fūjo 風絮 (2005-) and links to sites of interest.

Based at Hiroshima University, this is a group meeting regularly to read and discuss Song epigraphical texts.

These pages provide an overview of the meetings held by the group and are part of the larger online index of resources useful to Song scholars, titled Taiwan Song shi yanjiu wang 臺灣宋史研究網 (Song History Research Net in Taiwan), http://www.ihp.sinica.edu.tw/~twsung/
managed now by Yang Shihong 楊士弘 and previously by Liu Liyan (Lau Nap-Yin) 柳立言. This latter site provides access to bibliographies of Taiwanese M.A. and Ph.D. theses and research written by affiliates of Academia Sinica in Song studies, directories of individuals and institutions, an overview of major journals and sites in the US, PRC, Japan, Korea and Taiwan, and maintains a list of electronic resources both proprietary and non-proprietory. The latter list is not annotated.

Songdai shiliao yanduhui 宋代史料研讀會 (Song Texts Reading Group)
http://www.ihp.sinica.edu.tw/~twsung/song/index.htm

This group meets regularly to discuss various types of Song historical materials. Meetings, topics, and materials are posted on the site.

USA:
The Society for Song, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasties Studies:
http://www.humanities.uci.edu/eastasian/SungYuan/

This site lists news and announcements, tables of contents of the journal produced by the society (see below) and it indexes links of interest to Song scholars. Those interested in subscribing to the society's listserv can find instructions on the main page. There are no archives for this listserv.

Korea:
宋遼金元史研究會

PRC:
Zhongguo Song shi yanjiuhui 中國宋史研究會 (The Chinese Society of Song History):
http://www.songdai.com

This site contains news and announcements on meetings and new publications, publishes secondary research and bookreviews, provides links to Song primary sources and other resources, and maintains online communication tools.

Zhongguo Songdai wenxuehui 中國宋代文學會 (The Chinese Society for Song Literature)

Organizes national and international meetings on Song literature.

Zhongguo Su Shi yanjiuhui 中國蘇軾研究會 (The Chinese Su Shi Society)

Organizes regular meetings on Su Shi.

Newsletters and Journals

For current bibliography in Western languages, Chinese, and Japanese, as well as for abstracts of Western-language dissertations, reports on work-in-progress and scholarly activities, and research articles, see:

For the state of the field in the People's Republic of China, including PRC bibliography, publication news, and short articles of scholarly interest, see:

For a list of bibliographical articles published in this journal, see II.B.

In addition, the following periodicals are dedicated to Song studies:

The tables of contents of the former journal can be searched when conducting a search on 宋史研究集 at the 國立編譯館 site listed above. Members can read articles online. Vol. 35 (2005) includes a cumulative table of contents of all 35 volumes (pp. 561-608). Vol. 11 contains an index to article titles for vols. 6-10 and an index to authors for vols. 1-10. Cumulative indexes for volumes 1-17 and 18-22 have been published as an appendix respectively in Song shi zuotanhui yibaici tekan 宋史座談會一百次特刊 (Taibei: Song shi zuotanhui, 1988) and Song shi zuotanhui chengli sanshi zhounian xueshu yantaohui wenji 宋史座談會成立三十週年學術研討會 (Taibei: Song shi zuotanhui, 1994).

The Chinese Society of Song Studies regularly compiles the proceedings of its conferences. Proceedings of international conferences on Song history have also been published. See, for example

See also the conference volumes listed under I.B.1.

Blogs

Tang Song shi yanjiu 唐宋史研究 (Research on Tang and Song History)
http://blog.hexun.com/tangsong/default.aspx (previously http://tangsong.blogchina.com)
Geng Yuanli 耿元骊
This blog includes articles on topics related to Tang through Song socio-economic, political and cultural history, bibliography, and electronic tools. It lists links to libraries and databases, and institutions specializing in Tang-Song history. Both the blog and the (very small) image database are fully searchable.

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