Dear Colleagues, I would like to introduce the newest member of the listserv community, Edwin Van Bibber-Orr (evanbibb@syr.edu) . He has provided the following self-introduction: Hello, my name is Edwin Van Bibber-Orr, and I am an Assistant Professor of Chinese at Syracuse University. I completed my PhD in Chinese literature at Yale University in May 2013. I wrote my dissertation ("A Feminine Canon: Li Qingzhao and Zhu Shuzhen") under the supervision of Profs. Kang-i Sun Chang and Haun Saussy (University of Chicago). As I begin revising the dissertation, my research interests lie in Song ci poetry, women's history, print culture, gender theory, intellectual history, and translation theory. Please join me in welcoming Edwin. On other matter: 1. If you have joined the listserv in the past six months but I have NOT sent around an introduction, my apologies. Please send the listserv community a note to let people know who you are and what you are doing. Thanks. 2. If you have not yet ordered the next volume of the journal, please use the Song-Yuan website form (http://www.humanities.uci.edu/eastasian/SungYuan/JSYS/JSYS42_Pre-Order_Form.pdf) rather than that on the IEAS website. Our form makes it clear that you are paying money as the annual dues for membership in the Society (recently incorporated as a non-profit) and that you get the journal as part of your membership. To everyone who has ordered the journal through the IEAS form, I would like to officially welcome you as members of the Society for Song, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasty Studies. 3. Concerning the Society, please recall that the annual business meeting of the society (now required by our bylaws) will NOT take place at the AAS meeting but at the Middle Period Conference at Harvard in June. The AAS program will indicate that there will be a meeting of the Society on Friday 3/28 at 7:30. This is an error: we thought we had arranged with the AAS to cancel this time and place and switch to an informal 1:00 meeting on Saturday, but this never happened. We may yet find a 1:00 room. I’ll post an update if we do. Yours truly, Michael