As you may know, every year our forum has two guaranteed panel sessions for the MLA convention. The Executive Committee of the forum would like to consider ideas from as broad a range of our membership as possible. Please share your ideas for these sessions for the 2025 convention in New Orleans. At this stage it can be a general idea, without a…[Read more]

The Ming-Qing forum Executive Committee welcomes member suggestions, including self-nominations, for a new members of the Committee with a term beginning in 2024. Committee members must be MLA members, not a member of another forum’s Excutive Committee unless that position ends in 2024, and have not been an executive committee member of our forum…[Read more]

Please join us for the Chinese and East Asian Literature reception at MLA 2024 in Philadelphia, co- sponsored by the forums on Ming and Qing Chinese literature, pre-1400 Chinese literature, Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature, and East Asian Literature.

Time: Friday, January 5, 7:15-8:30 PM

Location: Marriott Grand A

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Thanks to the generous support of the James P. Geiss and Margaret Y. Hsu  Foundation, the Executive Committee of the Ming-Qing Forum of the Modern Languages Association is pleased to announce the Geiss-Hsu Travel Grant to support participation in the 2024 MLA annual convention by scholars of the Ming and adjacent periods. Convention participants (…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues, I’d like to remind you that the deadline for proposing sessions for the 2023 MLA convention (1/5-8 in San Francisco) is April 1.  Any MLA member may propose a special session. The 75-minute session usually includes 4 papers or 3 papers plus response, but the format can be flexible. For more information about proposing a special…[Read more]

Dear Members of the LLC Ming and Qing Forum,

I am Maria Franca Sibau, and I was also nominated for the executive committee elections. I am an associate professor of Chinese literature at Emory University. My research interests are in vernacular fiction, drama, and Confucian cultures of the late imperial period. I am also interested in the history…[Read more]

Invitation to MLA 2021 LLC Ming and Qing Chinese Social EventSession 11077: January 7th, TR, 8:45pm-10:00pm EST

Event in the program: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2021/meetingapp.cgi/Session/11077

Dear colleagues attending the upcoming MLA,

Please join us for lively conversations and networking with colleagues at MLA.

Forum members: Rania…[Read more]

PATRICIA SIEBER

sieber.6@osu.edu

CANDIDATE STATEMENT FOR THE LLC MING AND QING CHINESE (G202) EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ELECTION

I am an associate professor of Chinese literature and the inaugural director of the Translation and Interpreting Program at The Ohio State University. My research interests encompass traditional Chinese theater and song…[Read more]

The Pre-14th Century Chinese Literature Forum is making an open call for panel proposals on a topic of broad appeal to scholars of literary history, comparative literature, or language and literary pedagogy. MLA sessions can be either roundtables or panels with 3-4 short papers and a discussant.  Panel organizers would have the opportunity to c…[Read more]

Hi all,

Forgive me for being chatty. A quick note that if you are attending AAS, couple of our forum members are presenting in panels as below. Please come to give support thanks.

• March 22 F, 1:30 PM – 3:15 PM Queer Renditions: From Late Imperial China to Contemporary Sinophone World Location: Room Governor’s Square 11, Plaza Bldg., C…

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Dear colleagues,

To warm up the discussion board here a bit, I would like to ask if colleagues who teach courses in Ming Qing fiction and drama could kindly share thoughts, questions, open access materials that are effective in classroom settings for both advanced undergraduate courses, and graduate seminars. Affiliated questions would also be…[Read more]

The executive committee for the forum strongly encourages all of our forum members to post their Calls for Papers session proposals on Ming/Qing topics by February 28!

https://apps.mla.org/cfp_main

Feel free to contact me (nfaries@bates.edu) or any other committee member if you want your proposal to be considered for official forum sponsorship…[Read more]

All Ming/Qing Forum members and prospective members are welcome to bring their ideas and join the conversation on Thursday evening just before the East Asia Social Event. (8:00-8:30 p.m., and we can walk over to the social event together.)

We will meet for 30 minutes in the Old Town Room at the Sheraton Grand. Agenda items: session topics for…[Read more]