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TSS Annual Meeting Clarification
by T'ang Studies Society 25 Mar '21

25 Mar '21

Hello all, You may have noticed in my message this morning that I referred to the Annual Meeting as "tomorrow." That was due to a system delay. I wrote the message last evening. The Annual Meeting is TODAY (Thursday, March 25) at 9:00 p.m. EDT, as indicated in Jon Skaff's various reminders. My apologies for any confusion. But my heart-felt wish that you attend still stands! All best, Tony Anthony DeBlasi President T'ang Studies Society

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T'ang Studies Society Annual Meeting
by DeBlasi, Anthony 24 Mar '21

24 Mar '21

Dear Friends of the T'ang Studies Society, You have been receiving regular reminders from Jonathan Skaff, the Society's Secretary, about tomorrow's Annual Meeting. I would like to add my personal encouragement that you to attend. I realize that many of our members found last year's meeting too impersonal - a marked departure from the Society's traditional conviviality. This year we will be using a straight Zoom format (as opposed to the dreaded webinar mode) and will opening the proceedings up for member interaction, so I truly hope that you will find the time to attend. The Society is only a society because of its members. And feel free to bring your favored beverage. We may not have catering, but we can still raise a toast to each other. Looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow evening. All best, Tony Anthony DeBlasi, Ph.D. President, T'ang Studies Society Associate Professor Department of East Asian Studies University at Albany

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T'ang Studies Society Reminers: Annual Meeting and Panel Sponsorships
by T'ang Studies Society 24 Mar '21

24 Mar '21

Dear Friends and Members of the T’ang Studies Society, I am writing to remind you that the T’ang Studies Society will have a busy Thursday and Friday at the Virtual AAS Annual Meeting. The society’s membership meeting will take place on Thursday at 9 pm EDT. There are three different panels on Thursday and Friday. See details below TSS Annual Membership Meeting AAS registration IS NOT required to participate. The event will take place on Zoom (not the Zoom webinar format of last year). Good news, you will be able to see all your colleagues and friends! To attend, please click on the Zoom link below and enter the password. Date: Thursday, March 25, 2021 Time: 9:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time Join Zoom Meeting [ https://ship.zoom.us/j/99919839679 | https://ship.zoom.us/j/99919839679 ] Meeting ID: 999 1983 9679 Passcode: 148041 One tap mobile +16465588656,,99919839679# US (New York) +13017158592,,99919839679# US (Washington DC) TSS S ponsor ed P anels : AAS registration IS required to participate. “Negotiating Ethnicity and Gender on Imperial Frontiers: A Multidisciplinary Lens,” Thursday, March 25, 12:00pm–1:30pm EDT “The Six Dynasties–Tang Transition,” Thursday, March 25, 12:00pm–1:30pm EDT “After the Heavenly Qaghans: Multi-ethnic Approaches to the Tang-Song Transition,” Friday, March 26, 8:30am–10:00am EDT See the conference program for details on each session: [ https://www.eventscribe.net/2021/AASVirtual/index.asp? | https://www.eventscribe.net/2021/AASVirtual/index.asp? ] Best wishes, Jonathan Skaff Secretary T'ang Studies Society http://tangstudies.org/Membership.html

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T’ang Studies Society Virtual Annual Meeting, Thursday March 25, 9 PM EDT
by T'ang Studies Society 21 Mar '21

21 Mar '21

Dear Friends and Members of the T’ang Studies Society, I am writing to remind you that the T’ang Studies Society’s Annual Membership Meeting will be taking place virtually as a Meeting-in-Conjunction at the Virtual AAS Annual Meeting that begins this week. The meeting will include some exciting announcements about a new scholarly production grant program and the journal's move to Johns Hopkins University Press. AAS registration is not required to participate. To attend, please click on the Zoom link below and enter the password. Date: March 25, 2021 Time: 9:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time Join Zoom Meeting [ https://ship.zoom.us/j/99919839679 | https://ship.zoom.us/j/99919839679 ] Meeting ID: 999 1983 9679 Passcode: 148041 One tap mobile +16465588656,,99919839679# US (New York) +13017158592,,99919839679# US (Washington DC) I realize that without our traditional reception, this will not be as convivial as we have come to expect TSS meetings to be, but please do put this event on your calendars. We are hoping to return to the traditional reception meeting next year in Honolulu! All best wishes, Jonathan Skaff Secretary T'ang Studies Society http://tangstudies.org/Membership.html

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A talk this Wed: Muslims in Tang, Song and Yuan China,
by Skaff, Jonathan 02 Mar '21

02 Mar '21

Dear Members and Friends of the T’ang Studies Society, To clarify the time zone of the talk below, it will be Eastern Standard Time: Wednesday, March 3rd, 4:30 to 5:45pm EST. Best regards, Jonathan Skaff Secretary T’ang Studies Society http://tangstudies.org/Membership.html From: T'ang Studies Society <admin(a)tangstudies.org> Date: Tuesday, March 2, 2021 at 7:30 PM To: "tangstudies(a)mailman.xmission.com" <tangstudies(a)mailman.xmission.com> Subject: [T'ang Studies] A talk this Wed: Muslims in Tang, Song and Yuan China Dear Members and Friends of the T’ang Studies Society, Please pardon the short notice of the lecture advertised below. I am on leave this year and do not check my email often, hence the tardiness. But I thought this event may be of interest to some of the TSS members. Please note that the event is tomorrow (Wednesday, March 3). It is free, but pre-registration is required. Many thanks and best regards, Ding Xiang -- Dr. Ding Xiang Warner Professor of Chinese Literature Department of Asian Studies Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853–2502 On leave 2021. *************** “Muslims in Tang, Song and Yuan China” Angela Schottenhammer Professor of Chinse History Leuven University, Belgium Wednesday, March 3rd 4:30 to 5:45pm The seminar will introduce some examples of activities and transregional relations of Muslims in Tang, Song, and Yuan China (618-1279 CE). The talk will specifically concentrate of traders and physicians, and also introduce a few of the more important names that we know from this period. The scope of our inquiry here is intentionally kept wide, so that we can tap into various aspects of Muslim activities in the social, economic, and political life of then- contemporary China. The topics discussed in this seminar cover a period of some six hundred years, during the Medieval/Early Modern period of Chinese History. Wednesday, March 3 – Muslims in Tang, Song and Yuan China Registration link https://cornell.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwrduuvqTgpGtfK-ZAYeFvLrZQDFNNGlb…

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A talk this Wed: Muslims in Tang, Song and Yuan China
by T'ang Studies Society 02 Mar '21

02 Mar '21

Dear Members and Friends of the T’ang Studies Society, Please pardon the short notice of the lecture advertised below. I am on leave this year and do not check my email often, hence the tardiness. But I thought this event may be of interest to some of the TSS members. Please note that the event is tomorrow (Wednesday, March 3). It is free, but pre-registration is required. Many thanks and best regards, Ding Xiang -- Dr. Ding Xiang Warner Professor of Chinese Literature Department of Asian Studies Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853–2502 On leave 2021. *************** “Muslims in Tang, Song and Yuan China” Angela Schottenhammer Professor of Chinse History Leuven University, Belgium Wednesday, March 3rd 4:30 to 5:45pm The seminar will introduce some examples of activities and transregional relations of Muslims in Tang, Song, and Yuan China (618-1279 CE). The talk will specifically concentrate of traders and physicians, and also introduce a few of the more important names that we know from this period. The scope of our inquiry here is intentionally kept wide, so that we can tap into various aspects of Muslim activities in the social, economic, and political life of then- contemporary China. The topics discussed in this seminar cover a period of some six hundred years, during the Medieval/Early Modern period of Chinese History. Wednesday, March 3 – Muslims in Tang, Song and Yuan China Registration link [ https://cornell.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwrduuvqTgpGtfK-ZAYeFvLrZQDFNNGlb… | https://cornell.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwrduuvqTgpGtfK-ZAYeFvLrZQDFNNGlb… ]

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A talk this Wed: Muslims in Tang, Song and Yuan China
by Skaff, Jonathan 02 Mar '21

02 Mar '21

Dear Members and Friends of the T’ang Studies Society, Please pardon the short notice of the lecture advertised below. I am on leave this year and do not check my email often, hence the tardiness. But I thought this event may be of interest to some of the TSS members. Please note that the event is tomorrow (Wednesday, March 3). It is free, but pre-registration is required. Many thanks and best regards, Ding Xiang -- Dr. Ding Xiang Warner Professor of Chinese Literature Department of Asian Studies Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853–2502 On leave 2021. *************** “Muslims in Tang, Song and Yuan China” Angela Schottenhammer Professor of Chinse History Leuven University, Belgium Wednesday, March 3rd 4:30 to 5:45pm The seminar will introduce some examples of activities and transregional relations of Muslims in Tang, Song, and Yuan China (618-1279 CE). The talk will specifically concentrate of traders and physicians, and also introduce a few of the more important names that we know from this period. The scope of our inquiry here is intentionally kept wide, so that we can tap into various aspects of Muslim activities in the social, economic, and political life of then- contemporary China. The topics discussed in this seminar cover a period of some six hundred years, during the Medieval/Early Modern period of Chinese History. Wednesday, March 3 – Muslims in Tang, Song and Yuan China Registration link https://cornell.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwrduuvqTgpGtfK-ZAYeFvLrZQDFNNGlb…

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CFP Fourth Conference of the Early Medieval China Group
by T'ang Studies Society 04 Jan '21

04 Jan '21

Dear Friends of the T'ang Studies Society, Knowing that many of our members are also working on topics in the early medieval period, Professor Antje Richter sent us the attached call for papers for the Fourth Conference of the Early Medieval China Group. The conference will be held online on Saturday, March 27 this year (2021). Best wishes for the New Year, Tony Anthony DeBlasi President T'ang Studies Society

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Upcoming
by T'ang Studies Society 26 Oct '20

26 Oct '20

Dear Members and Friends of the T'ang Studies Society, Professor Tian Xiaofei sent the announcement below about an upcoming seminar talk at Harvard University next Monday by Prof. Lucas Bender as part of its China Humanities Seminar. The event will clearly be of interest to our community. Best, Tony Anthony DeBlasi President T'ang Studies Society Dear Friends, This is an invitation to the fourth Harvard University China Humanities Seminar talk of AY2020–2021, to be held next Monday (Nov.2nd), 4:00-5:45 pm (ET). To attend the talk, please register at: [ https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_meetin… | https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcrc-yvrD8oH9KrvPpFFw9ytwB2Uicb5h… ] . After registering, you will immediately receive a confirmation email containing the Zoom link to the talk. The China Humanities Seminar is pleased to present: Lucas Rambo Bender Yale University The Eternal Frontier of China’s Cosmopolitan Empire: Changing Attitudes Towards Ethnocultural Others in Tang-Dynasty Texts Date: Monday, November 2nd, 2020, 4:00pm to 5:45pm (ET) The seventh and early-eighth centuries have often been considered the period of “China’s Cosmopolitan Empire” on account of their relative tolerance of religious and ideological diversity, their acceptance of significant “foreign” populations in the capital and on the borderlands, and their active recruitment of non-“Han” ethnicities into the military and civil ranks. At the same time, however, surviving texts from this period also evince attitudes no less xenophobic than those found in texts from the ninth through eleventh centuries, when scholars have often claimed that China became less open to ethnocultural others. This talk will argue that what changes between these periods are not, in fact, contemporary attitudes towards “the barbarians,” who were almost universally reviled in surviving texts from throughout the Tang. Instead, changing ideas about texts themselves, and about the ways that texts should ideally operate within the world, produced a transformation in how longstanding and relatively unchanging tropes about ethnocultural others were understood and deployed. The apparent decline of elite “cosmopolitan” attitudes from the seventh century to the tenth thus reflects, in significant part, a shift in literary theory. Lucas Rambo Bender is Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages & Literatures at Yale University. He graduated from Harvard's Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations in 2016. His book on the great Tang-dynasty poet Du Fu is forthcoming in the summer of 2021 from the Harvard University Asia Center Press, and he is currently at work on a second project, about the oft-remarked but rarely-interrogated "pluralism" of the late Chinese middle ages. Please note that Professor Bender's talk will be recorded and archived on the MHC and EALC website. If you do not feel comfortable being recorded, please disable video for yourself. The Q&A session will not be videotaped. This event is generously sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center and the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University. For questions, or to unsubscribe from the CHS mailing list, please e-mail Nichimin Lu at [ mailto:nichiminlu@g.harvard.edu | nichiminlu(a)g.harvard.edu ] . We look forward to seeing you at the talk! All the best, Nichimin Lu

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Announcement: 2020 WBAOS Annual Meeting, Nov 6/5-8/7 (HK/US)
by Skaff, Jonathan 26 Oct '20

26 Oct '20

Dear Friends and Members of the T’ang Studies Society, See the announcement of the virtual WBAOS Annual Meeting below from TSS member, Alexei Ditter. The program is attached. Many papers will be of interest to the T’ang Studies community. Best regards, Jonathan Skaff Secretary T’ang Studies Society http://tangstudies.org/Membership.html ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Alexei Ditter <dittera(a)reed.edu<mailto:dittera@reed.edu>> Date: Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 8:48 PM Subject: Announcement: 2020 WBAOS Annual Meeting, Nov 6/5-8/7 (HK/US) To: Alexei Ditter <dittera(a)reed.edu<mailto:dittera@reed.edu>> Dear Members of the WBAOS mailing list, I am delighted to be able to send to you the program for the 2020 Annual Meeting of the Western Branch of the American Oriental Society, which will be hosted online by the University of Hong Kong and the University of Colorado Boulder from November 6-8 (HK dates)/November 5-7 (U.S.). The meeting will feature eight panels of papers and a keynote address by Professor Joseph Allen, titled "Desperately Seeking Nana Hsu: A Meta-Story of Literary Research." Registration in advance of the Annual Meeting is required and may be completed at the following link: https://forms.gle/XfPHTiThjpsPcSxD8. No registration fee is required. All panels and the keynote address are open to the public; the business meeting held on the second day of the meeting is restricted to current members of the WBAOS. Cheers, Alexei Ditter Secretary-Treasurer, WBAOS __________________ Alexei Ditter Associate Professor, Chinese Reed College 3203 SE Woodstock Boulevard Portland, OR 97202 Tel: 503-517-7348 Email: dittera(a)reed.edu<mailto:dittera@reed.edu>

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