Dear colleagues and friends of SSYCDS, Hope you are doing well. For those of you who are teaching this fall, I hope you will have a wonderful start of the new school year and stay safe and healthy! Please join me in welcoming a new member of the Song Yuan listserv, Gabe van Beijeren. Below please find Gabe's self introduction. Gabe van Beijeren is Lecturer at the Leiden Institute for Area Studies at Leiden University, where he teaches courses in Classical Chinese and on Chinese history, philosophy, and religion. His research focuses on Tang history, in particular the structuring of Tang historical texts as narratives and the rhetorical effects of narratives. Together with Hilde De Weerdt and Glen Dudbridge he edited The Essentials of Governance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021). Sincerely, Ya Zuo Secretary, Society for Song, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasties Studies