Welcome to the Society for Song, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasties Studies (SSYCDS) website. The Society is an international, scholarly, non-political, and nonprofit professional association of all persons interested in the study of Chinese, Jurchen, Khitan, Tangut, and Mongol history. Incorporated as a nonprofit corporation in 2011, the SSYCDS has been granted federal 501(c)3 nonprofit status.
The mission of the Society for Song, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasties Studies is to create a dynamic resource for university professors, graduate students, and independent scholars interested in the cultures of China from the tenth century and the founding of the Song and Liao dynasties to the end of the Yuan dynasty in the fourteenth century.
The Association for Asian Studies has announced the accepted panels for its 2027 Annual Conference, to be held in-person from March 18–21 in Boston. The Society for Song, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasties Studies will again offer sponsorship for two AAS panels in our research timeframe (10th–14th centuries). We will prioritize funding for panels that focus on the Society’s timeframe but will also consider sponsoring panels that include individual papers that fall outside it.
The selected panels will receive official recognition by the Society on the conference program and on our Society website as well as a small grant of $200/person to offset the costs of participation for up to six (6) participants (typically four panelists, a discussant, and a panel chair).
Additionally, organizers of award-winning panels are encouraged to request a supplementary grant of up to $500/panel to support travel costs. These supplemental funds will be awarded according to demonstrated need, with a preference for emerging scholars.
If you would like to apply for SSYCDS sponsorship for your panel, please submit the panel organizer’s CV, panel proposal, individual paper abstracts, and the names and contact information of all panel participants. In the last document, please also indicate whether any members of your panel have previously received SSYCDS AAS support, specifying the years and number of times. Please send all materials to the SSYCDS Secretary, Professor Yiwen Li (yiwenli@cityu.edu.hk) by December 15, 2026.
Please note that panelists must be members of the Society to receive support. Although participants are not required to be members at the time of application, all sponsored panel participants are required to pay membership dues for 2027 prior to January 31, 2027. For more information about membership and SSYCDS, please see our website: https://www.songyuan.org/membership.html .
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SSYCDS Annual Meeting will take place at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference in Vancouver, on Saturday, March 14, 12:15-1:45PM in Waterfront Ballroom B at the Fairmont Waterfront. We are ordering dim sum this year. Please come early for a hot lunch and a chance to catch up with colleagues. If you have a publication from the past year and would like to share the news, please send the details to our secretary, Professor Yiwen Li, at yiwenli@cityu.edu.hk. We look forward to celebrating your new articles and books with the community.
3:30PM-5:00PM PDT, Friday, March 13, 2026, VCC Room 206
Organizer: Ting Cheung Wong
Panelists: Ting Cheung Wong, Qian Zhan, Wuliang Qu, Ruixue Zhou
Chair: Linda Walton
Discussant: Peter Bol
8:30AM-10:00AM PDT, Saturday, March 14, 2026, VCC Room 209
Organizers: Lucien Sun
Panelists: Xiaoshan Yang, Lucien Sun, Elizabeth Kindall
Chair: Benjamin Ridgway
Discussant: Cong Zhang
