The Annual Meeting of the Society for Ming Studies will take place on March 28, in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies.

Meeting Location: Philadelphia Downtown Marriott, 1201 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107

Friday, March 28, 2014, 7:30pm -9:30pm

The panel topic: “Southeast Asia and the Ming”

• Ken Hammond, “Wang Shizhen’s ‘Annan zhi’: A Ming perspective on Vietnam”
• Johannes Kurz, “Depictions of Borneo (Boni) in texts from the Ming”
• Kathlene Baldanza, “A Vietnamese Envoy in the Wanli Court”
• Ken Hall, “Ming and the Straits of Melaka-Java Sea-Bay of Bengal maritime passageway”