Dear Colleagues, Please join me in welcoming a new member to the listserv, Chang Wook Lee, who has provided this self-introduction. Fields: Ancient and Medieval Chinese and East Asian History (Political, Institutional, Social Elite, Gender, Ethnics, War and Trade, Maritime History, Funerary Inscriptions, Genealogies) I am currently working as a Research Fellow at Korea’s Northeast Asian History Foundation. I have studied ancient and medieval Chinese as well as East Asian history in both Korea and China as well as the United States. In terms of my research projects, I plan to expand my dissertation, “The rise of the Hanlin Academicians: The political history of the imperial secretaries during the Tang-Song transformation, 738-1082” by analyzing their role in other periods of China (particularly the Yuan-Ming) as well as their influence in the surrounding East Asian states, with particular emphasis on Korea and Vietnam. Second, I also would like to investigate other imperial Chinese institution, such as the Chief Councilors, Secretariat Drafters and other Academicians, all of whom were closely related to the Hanlin Academicians. Third, I would like to continue work that I have already begun on the social history of the medieval Chinese elite from which the Hanlin Academicians were drawn; this project is especially promising thanks to the massive number of newly discovered funerary inscriptions (epitaphs) that have recently appeared. Fourth, I would like to undertake a study of upper class women’s history in middle period China, especially of women in Tang aristocratic families; in the past, such a study would have been very difficult due to the scarcity of sources but is now possible with the newly discovered funerary inscriptions. Finally, I am interested in studying the Geopolitics of East Asia in relating to the maritime as well as the war and trade history. EDUCATION Ph.D., Binghamton University, 2013 M. A., Beijing University, 1999 B. A., Korea University, 1991 CONTACT INFORMATION Chang Wook Lee, Research Fellow Northeast Asian History Foundation 81 Tongil-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, Korea 120-705 Phone: 82-2-2012-6048 Cell: 82-10-4746-0876 Email: dmar04@nahf.or.kr<mailto:dmar04@nahf.or.kr>, changwook.lee67@gmail.com<mailto:changwook.lee67@gmail.com> Michael