At the AAS meeting in San Diego, the Society for Ming Studies will present a roundtable in honor of Professor Edward L. Farmer. The event will be on Friday, March 22, 7:00 PM in Windsor B at the convention hotel.
 The speakers and their topics are:

• Yonglin JIANG and Yanhong WU: “Decoding Social Order: Ted Farmer’s Use of Ming Law Codes”
• Peter Ditmanson, on Ted Farmer’s contribution to our understanding of the geography and institutions of the early Ming polity
•  Su CHEN: “Visualizing the Localities: Ted Farmer’s Work on Ming Gazetteers and Illustrated Maps”
•  Joe Dennis, on Ted Farmer’s contributions in teaching, including his work to put China in a regional and global context; in the establishment of the Ming Studies Research Series; and in creating of Minnesota’s Institute for Global Studies

In addition, Prof. Farmer, will also speak. The roundtable will be chaired by Sarah Schneewind.