Dear Colleagues. I am happy to introduce two new members. Mark Halperin (mhalperin@ucdavis.edu ) is well-known to all for his book Out of the Cloister (Harvard, 2006) and other work. At present he is exploring the topic of literati and Daoism from 1100-1400. He describes himself thus: “I am historian of Song-Yuan China, with particular interests in lay religion, family and kinship matters, and literati culture.” Chen Wenyi (wenyi@asihp.net ) gives this self-introduction: My research is focused on how literati formed social networks and forged a cultural order in the Song and Yuan dynasties. My current projects include 1) a study of "presentation prefaces" (zengxu) in the Yuan, as part of my examination of the social history of certain Song and Yuan literary genres, and 2) a study of the portrayal of “recluses” (or hidden talents, yinyi) during the Song and Yuan, as part of a larger project on the biographies of literati without office at this time. My previous work includes my book in Chinese, You guanxue dao shuyuan (2004), a study of how the Southern Song “academy movement” came to provide an ideal image for literati private schools, and my Ph. D dissertation, “Networks, Communities, and Identities: On the Discursive Practices of Yuan Literati” (Harvard, 2007) Please join me in welcoming them to the listserv. Yours truly, Michael