Dear Colleagues, Let me begin by introducing two new members of the listserv (well, Chen Song just changed his address, but this also belatedly announces his new position). First is ZHAO Siyin (szhao9@binghamton.edu ), who introduces herself: “I am a graduate student in Ph.D. program at History Department of SUNY Binghamton. I am studying urban history in Song-Yuan period. I am also interested in socio-cultural and intellectual history in middle period China.” Please join me in welcoming her. And here is Chen Song’s self-introduction: “"I just graduated from Harvard University last year and joined Bucknell University as an Assistant Professor of Chinese History. My research focuses on state-society relations in China between the eighth and the eighteenth century. My current project traces the evolution of a decentralized structure of governance in Sichuan during these centuries and the concomitant transformation of the political elite into a group with deep roots in local society and wide regional connections beyond local borders. I am also interested in exploring new ways of studying history in the digital age. I am on the steering committee of China Biographical Database Project (CBDB) since 2011 and have been employing network analysis and historical GIS tools in my prosopographical research to reveal macrohistorical patterns.” Also, please check out the “Past Issues” page of the website: http://www.humanities.uci.edu/eastasian/SungYuan/JSYS/content.htm Through Beverly Bossler’s determination, we finally have volumes 18 and 19 of the bulletin on line. The articles are largely OCRed but primarily for the purpose of searching rather than cut-and-paste, since Adobe Acrobat does not know that each sheet has two separate pages on it. In any case, the addition of these two issues completes the archive. Michael