Bruce Rusk
Geiss Hsu Book Prizes in Ming Studies
By Bruce Rusk on November 18, 2025
With the generous support of the James P. Geiss & Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation, the Society for Ming Studies (SMS) has established two book prizes: Best First Book and Best Overall Book. These prizes recognize outstanding English-language monographs on Ming China (1368–1644) and its global connections. A committee of senior Ming specialists from diverse disciplines […]
Ming Studies in Five: Graduate Student Symposium at AAS 2026
By Bruce Rusk on November 3, 2025
The Society for Ming Studies (SMS) invites current PhD students to participate in a graduate student symposium at the SMS Annual Meeting, to be held from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. on Friday, March 13, 2026, in conjunction with the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference in Vancouver, Canada. Each participant will give a […]
Minutes from the Society for Ming Studies Annual Meeting 2025
By Bruce Rusk on April 15, 2025
The 2025 Annual Meeting of the Society for Ming Studies was held on Friday, March 14, 2025 at the Hyatt Regency in Columbus, Ohio, from 7 to 9 pm. 7:00-7:10 Welcoming remarks from Tom Kelly (outgoing president) Welcome to Wang Guojun, incoming president 7:10–7:20 Reports and updates Update on Ming Studies on the occasion of its […]
Ming and Ming-Adjacent Panels at the 2025 AAS Annual Meeting
By Bruce Rusk on March 10, 2025
Ihor Pidhainy has generously compiled a list of papers on and related to the Ming at the 2025 AAS Annual Meeting in Columbus, Ohio (March 13-17). Thursday, March 13 7:00-8:30 PM 1-007 – Between Materiality, Genre, and Media: Rethinking Li Yu’s (1611-1680) Corpus as a Transmedial Project (Clark, 2nd Floor Hyatt) Kangni Huang, University of Southern […]
Ming-related panels at AAS Boston 2023
By Bruce Rusk on March 12, 2023
Ihor Pidhainy has kindly compiled a list of panels with Ming content at the 2023 Association for Asian Studies annual meeting. AAS Ming and Ming-Related Papers at 2023 Annual Meeting (Boston) Thursday, March 16, 2023 7:00-8:30 Panel: Unexpected Voices Against Military Excess: Mitigating State Violence in China, Korea, and, Japan, 1592-2015. (Hynes Convention, Room 204) […]
AAS Panels on Ming Topics
By Bruce Rusk on March 20, 2019
Ihor Pidhainy, editor of Ming Studies, has created a helpful list of Ming-related panels and papers at the 2019 AAS annual meeting in Denver. AAS 2019 Annual Meeting – Ming Papers Thursday March 21, 2019 7:30PM-9:15PM Panel 23 Book Matters: The Circulation of Literature and Organization of Knowledge in Pre-Modern China Terrace, Tower Building Yunshuang […]
Society for Ming Studies Annual Meeting and panel: March 22, 2019
By Bruce Rusk on January 21, 2019
Friday, March 22 7:30-9:30 pm Governor’s Square 11 Sheraton Downtown Hotel Denver, CO Thanks to a grant from the James P. Geiss and Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation, in addition to our usual business, we will also hear pechakucha-style (read: six minutes per person) research presentations from nine Ming scholars. The presenters will highlight their primary […]
Digital Seminar, June 7, 2018
By Bruce Rusk on May 29, 2018
From the Society for Ming Studies Graduate Student Representatives: The graduate student representatives would like to invite you to our first Ming Studies digital seminar. The seminar will take place on June 7th from 7 am to 8:30 am Pacific Standard Time (10 am EST, 3 pm BST, 10 pm CST). We’ll be hosting an online discussion with Kenneth […]
Scaling the Ming Full Schedule
By Bruce Rusk on April 16, 2018
The full schedule for the Scaling the Ming conference is now available. Paper abstracts are now available (Scaling the Ming 2018 Abstracts). Please RSVP if you would like to attend. The conference has been generously sponsored by the Society for Ming Studies, the James P. Geiss and Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation, the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen […]
Society Meeting 2018: Resources for Secondary Teaching
By Bruce Rusk on March 24, 2018
At the Annual Meeting of the Society for Ming Studies in Washington DC, on March 23, 2018, a range of panelist presented their ideas for integrating teaching about the Ming into secondary education. This included a discussion by Ann Waltner and Kathleen Ryor of their recent videos for the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and creation […]
