Dear Professor Zuo, I hope this email finds you well! My colleague and I are currently seeking panelists for an in-person panel that we are organizing for AAS2024. We were wondering if it would be possible to forward the message below to the mailing list? I sincerely hope you will forgive my presumption if this request falls outside the typical purview of communications distributed via the mailing list. We appreciate your time and help! Best wishes, Chun Xu --- Dear colleagues, I wanted to see if anyone would be interested in joining an AAS2024 in-person panel that explores ideas around knowledge, power, and the imperial state in Song, Yuan, and early Ming China. The theme is still loose at this point so we have flexibility to shape it further as a group. We also welcome interested colleagues to join us as discussant or chair for the panel. We now have two papers that look at how the Song state's enthusiasm for land survey and fiscal gain stood in stark contrast to the moral economies of the Confucian ideal. One paper on the history of technology argues that the entrepreneurial capacity of the state to own, manage, and tax vast tracts of land was itself a new development under the Southern Song, owing to an emerging repertoire of inscriptive and calculative techniques. The other paper explores, from an intellectual history perspective, how Southern Song literati from Liangzhe devised novel arguments to reconcile moral righteousness with material gain in support of the imperial state's fiscal activism. Let me know if any of these ideas resonate with your own research interests! I'd love to put together an interdisciplinary group to explore this topic comparatively across the Song, Yuan, and early Ming periods. Please send me a message if you're interested in brainstorming further or developing an abstract to submit together. I think this could be a great way to synthesize our different perspectives. Let me know your thoughts! Chun Xu cxu@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de<mailto:cxu@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de> Research Scholar Max Planck Institute for the History of Science