Dear colleagues, If you happen to be in Seattle on August 12, China Studies Program and the Department of History, University of Washington, will host an in-person Symposium on Middle Period China in celebration of Patricia Ebrey's illustrious career on the occasion of her retirement: https://jsis.washington.edu/china/events/?fbclid=IwAR2lhBKE2uePreCobGN_nkcBLnnTFH5ChyGwB3ooqwKjI6VYYFuugaelyCk&trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D160232914 9:00-11:50 - Morning Session Chair, Patricia Ebrey 9:00 - Yao Ping, California State University at Los Angeles “The Copying of Scriptures at Dunhuang” 9:50 - Sumei Yi, Zhongshan University/UC Davis "State and Market: A Study of the Law on Fornication" 10:40 - Break 11:00 - Hsiao-wen Cheng, University of Pennsylvania "Writing a History of Sexuality for Premodern China: Some Methodological Reflections" 11:50 - Lunch break 1:30 – 5:10 - Afternoon Session Chair, Kent Guy 1:30 - Cong Ellen Zhang, University of Virginia “Han Qi on Song-Liao-Xia Relations (1036-1043)” 2:20 - James Anderson, University of North Carolina at Greensboro "The An Nam Chí Lược 安南志略 as Common Ground: Lê Tắc's 黎崱 (ca. 1260s-1340s) Private History and its Sino-Vietnamese Audience" 3:10 Break 3:30 Xiaolin Duan, North Carolina State University "Place Branding and Advertisement in Middle Period China" 4:20 Shih-shan Susan Huang, Rice University “Dynamic spread of Buddhist Print Culture: Networks and Book Roads in China and its Neighbors, 850-1450” 5:10-5:20 Concluding Remarks -- Hsiao-wen Cheng Associate Professor of East Asian Religions,East Asian Languages and Civilizations<https://ealc.sas.upenn.edu/people/hsiao-wen-cheng> Core Faculty, Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies / Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies University of Pennsylvania Author of Divine, Demonic, and Disordered: Women without Men in Song Dynasty China<https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295748320/divine-demonic-and-disordered/>