Dear All, It occurred to me that when someone joins the listserv who is perhaps not known to people in the community, I might take the time to introduce them according to their own self-description. (I doubt there will be a huge inundation of names, so this will be a merely occasional event.) So, with that, I would like to introduce two new members. Ms. PHUNG Minh Hieu is currently working as a lecturer at the Vietnam National University. She received an MA from this university in 2007 in Han Nom Studies (the studies of traditional Chinese used in the past Vietnam and ancient vernacular Vietnamese) an is interested in researching the Vietnamese traditional civil service examination, which is considered to be similar to that of traditional China. Ms. Phung further notes that she intends to enroll a PhD program, majoring in History of Asia or East Asian Studies, in a US university. Xiaolin Duan is a first-year graduate student in History Department, University of Washington, who mainly focuses on social-cultural history in pre-modern China, especially the Song Dynasty. Michael