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    The Fourth Middle Period China Humanities Conference (220-1600)

    Following the success of the previous three gatherings of Middle Period scholars in 2014 at Harvard, 2017 at Leiden, and 2023 at Yale, the conference organizing committee is very pleased to announce that City University of Hong Kong will host the Fourth Middle Period China Humanities Conference.

    The conference will take place in late May or early June of 2026, maintaining the regular three-year interval of this conference series. The conference welcomes papers from all disciplines in the humanities (such as history, art history, literature, religious studies, and geography) that deal with China between 220 and 1600. The conference organizing committee is especially interested in papers that address larger themes or use experimental approaches. To take full advantage of the gathering of scholars from different disciplines specializing in different dynastic periods, the committee plans to prioritize papers that discuss more than one dynastic period, study China in a broader geographical context, or use an interdisciplinary methodology.

    Fourth Middle Period China Humanities Conference Announcement

    Tributes

    Wang Teh-yi 王德毅 (1934-2024), by Hoyt Cleveland Tillman (Tian Hao)

    Peter J. Golas (1937-2019), by Hans Ulrich Vogel

    Conrad Schirokauer (1929-2018), by David and Oliver Schirokauer

    Wm. Theodore de Bary (1919-2017), by Peter Bol

    Yanagida Setsuko 柳田節子 (1921-2006), by Joseph McDermott

    Archived News and Events

    2024: Panel Support Award for AAS: Call for Proposals

    2023: Stuck in the Middle? The Third Middle Period China Humanities Conference (220-1600), Yale University (Conference Program )

    2023: Announcement of SSYCDS Annual Meeting

    2023: SSYCDS Sponsored Panels at AAS

    2023: Call for Applications: Song texts workshop at the Elling Eide Center June 9-10

    2023: Panel Support Award for AAS: Call for Proposals

    2023: Kitan Network Annual (Virtual) Symposium

    2022: Announcement of SSYCDS Annual Meeting

    2022: SSYCDS Sponsored Panels at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies

    2022: Call for Papers for Conference on Tang-Song Transitions, June 2022

    2022: SSYCDS Small Grants Program: Call for Proposals

    2022: Panel Support Award for AAS: Call for Proposals

    2021: Announcement of SSYCDS Annual Meeting

    2021: SSYCDS-Sponsored Panels at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies

    2020: SSYCDS Response to COVID-19

    2019: SSYCDS-Sponsored Panels at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies (Denver, CO)

    2018: Announcement of SSYCDS New Website

    2018: SSYCDS-Sponsored Panels at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies (Washington, DC)

    2018: Tang Prize in Sinology: Shiba Yoshinobu 斯波義信 and Stephen Owen

    2017: The Second Conference on Middle Period Chinese Humanities, Leiden University (Conference Program)

    2014: International Interdisciplinary Conference on Middle Period China, 800-1400, Harvard University

    2012: Modern Chinese Religion: Value Systems in Transformation, Part 1. Song, Liao, Jin, Yuan

    2011: “When shall West Lake be without song or dance?” A Conference about Southern Song Culture

    2010: SSYCDS Acknowledgments to Haverford College and the Chen Family Funds for East Asian Studies

    2010: A Newly Discovered Inscription by Qin Gui

    2010: 「文藝紹興 -南宋藝術與文化」學術研討會議程 Dynastic Renaissance: Art and Culture of the Southern Song

    2009: Ideas, Networks, Places: Rethinking Chinese History of the Middle Period

    2007: Prosopography of Middle Period China: Using the Database

    Please send news and announcements regarding Song, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasties Studies to Yiwen Li (yiwenli@cityu.edu.hk).