Dear colleagues and friends of the SSYCDS, Hope you’ve been doing well! This year the SSYCDS continues the tradition to hold our annual meeting in conjunction with the AAS. The meeting will take place on Saturday March 16 at 12:15-1:45 PM in the Seneca room at the Grand Sheraton. 2024 marks a transition for the Society. As our president Ari and journal editor Doug prepare to pass the torch to their successors, let’s gather around and give them a roaring round of applause! As usual, you’ll get a preview of the latest issue of the *Journal of Song Yuan Studies* and hear colleagues sharing their recent research activities. Most important, please stop by hungry. Come on down with an appetite as big as your intellectual ambition. We’ll provide a full hot lunch buffet. It’s our goal to turn the SSYCDS meeting into the lunchtime paradise of the AAS, leaving the competition’s sandwiches and chips in the dust. Finally, the Society has chosen to sponsor two fantastic panels this year. Check them out if you are interested— “Religion, Literati Culture, and Technocratic Capacity in the Song State (960–1279),” organized by Wanmeng Li and Jiangnan Li “Distance, Dispute, and Distaste: New Perspectives on the Formation and Dissolution of Social Relationships in Middle Period China,” organized by Yung-chang Tung Hope to see many of you in Seattle! Ya Zuo Secretary, Society for Song, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasties Studies