Dear colleagues and friends, Many thanks to everyone who came to the SSYCDS annual meeting at AAS Columbus! I have to admit I was a bit overwhelmed by your enthusiasm when I walked into the room. I booked a room twice the size of last year’s and ordered more food, yet we still had to get more on the spot and squeeze in extra chairs—some of you even stood the whole time! We’re so grateful for your support and excitement. Many thanks to our speakers--Christian Lamouroux, Pierre-Étienne Will, Rong Yingheng, Richard von Glahn, and Zoe Shan Lin--and our wonderful moderators, Pat Ebrey and Charles Hartman. They did a fantastic job introducing* La dynastie des Song: Histoire générale de la Chine*, a remarkable survey of Song history by Professor Lamouroux, and further enriched the presentation by discussing its context--the circumstances of French Sinology and its influence on this historical narrative. Now, more than ever, it is important to foster mutual appreciation between scholarly traditions across borders and to celebrate international friendship and solidarity. 2024-2025 has been a strong year for the Society. We welcome three new board members--Anne Gerristen, Hsiao-Wen Cheng, and Chun Chen--and bid farewell to three board members, Michael Fuller, Naomi Standen, and Lucille Chia, whose contributions have profoundly shaped the Society as it stands today. Under the leadership of our secretary, Yiwen Li, our membership has increased by 20%, the highest growth since the pandemic--an achievement made possible by your generous support. With her steady leadership, our treasurer, Man Xu, has ensured that our finances remain in a healthy condition. Under the guidance of Charles Hartman and Paul Smith, the upcoming issue of The Journal of Song Yuan Studies is nearly complete. We look forward to receiving more submissions from you in the future and appreciate your support of the journal through your subscriptions and article downloads. Finally, we are now on Bluesky! Find us at https://bsky.app/profile/ssycds.bsky.social. Looking forward to connecting with you there. The AAS is always a lively gathering, and I wish I had the chance to speak with more of you while we were there. If you have any suggestions for how we can improve or new ideas for next year’s annual meeting, please feel free to reach out to me (yzuo@ucsb.edu) or Yiwen (yiwenli@cityu.edu.hk). We’d love to hear from you! Finally, I’m attaching some photos along with the list of publications by our members announced at the AAS meeting. Congratulations again! We look forward to receiving more submissions from you and celebrating our members’ achievements again next year. Sincerely yours, Ya Zuo President of the Society for Song, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasties