Hello Friends of T'ang Studies, It is once again that exciting time of the year when the new issue of Tang Studies is about to appear. The 2018 issue (number 36) is coming off the presses as I write, so I will be sending the mailing list of current members to the publisher soon. If you have not yet renewed your membership, please do so now. If you cannot remember whether you have renewed (some of you did so way back in January), feel free to send me a message and I will check for you. As always, you can renew using PayPal through the link on the Membership page of the Society's website: http://tangstudies.org/Membership.html Alternatively, you can send a check drawn in U.S. dollars on a U.S. bank to: Anthony DeBlasi Humanities 244 Department of East Asian Studies University at Albany 1400 Washington Avenue Albany, NY 12222 Finally, in the spirit of the U.S. charitable calendar, I might mention that there is a donation link on the same Membership page if you would like to remember TSS on this Giving Tuesday. In any event, we hope your northern hemisphere autumns and southern hemisphere springs are proceeding well, and we look forward to more scholarly and collegial interaction moving forward. Best, Tony Anthony DeBlasi Secretary-Treasurer T'ang Studies Society