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Geiss Foundation Ming Reception, AAS 2014
By Bruce Rusk on March 13, 2014
GEISS FOUNDATION MING RECEPTION Room 305, Philadelphia Downtown Marriott (AAS Conference Headquarters) 1201 Market Street Philadelphia, PA 19107 Saturday, 29 March 2014 8:15pm — 10:30pm Please join us for dessert, drinks, and conversation!
Annual Meeting
By Bruce Rusk on February 6, 2014
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’: […]
Ming quarry discovered near Wudangshan
By Bruce Rusk on January 29, 2014
A Ming-era quarry, where stone for epigraphy was mined, has been discovered near Wudangshan. There are some partial inscriptions still in situ.
Riesco auction proceeds
By Bruce Rusk on November 27, 2013
The controversial auction selling off the Croydon Museum collection of Chinese ceramics (largely Ming porcelain) has gone ahead, and most of the pieces were sold at a sale at Christie’s.
3 km Ming bridge in lake Poyang, Jiangxi
By Bruce Rusk on October 27, 2013
A number of news outlets have reported that lower water levels in Lake Poyang, in Jiangxi province, have revealed the stone slabs making up a 3 kilometre-long bridge built in the Ming.
Ming Daily Calendar available for download
By Bruce Rusk on July 26, 2013
The handy daily calendar of the Ming period by Keith Hazelton, also the first volume in the Ming Research Series, is now available as a downloadable PDF! Thanks to Keith for permission to post it, and to Ted Farmer for sacrificing a copy to be scanned.
Largest Ming cemetery in Guangdong to be excavated
By Bruce Rusk on May 13, 2013
The largest Ming cemetery yet discovered in the province of Guangdong has been discovered in the course of work on the tomb of Zhan Ruoshui. Details: 广东发现省内规模最大明代古墓 – 新华网广东频道.
Reminder: Annual Meeting
By Bruce Rusk on March 22, 2013
A reminder that the annual meeting of the Society for Ming Studies will take place at 7 pm on Friday, March 22, 2013, during the Association for Asian Studies conference. It will be held in the Windsor B room. All are welcome. New members and others interested in the Ming are encouraged to sign up […]
Ming Studies events at AAS 2013
By Bruce Rusk on March 14, 2013
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 […]
Latest issue of Xinshixue (New Historiography)
By Bruce Rusk on January 21, 2013
The latest issue of the journal Xinshixue (Vol.23 No.4) has several articles on Ming topics.
