Dear colleagues and friends of the SSYCDS, Hope you are comfortably winding down and getting ready for the yearly festivities! I'm sharing some good news on behalf of Professor Christian de Pee. On August 31, Amsterdam University Press published his *Urban Life and Intellectual Crisis in Middle-Period China, 800-1100 CE* <https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463721660/urban-life-and-intellectual-crisis-in-middle-period-china-800-1100>. The book is available in hard copy, but also in Open Access, for example through JSTOR <https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv2tvbnqw>, OAPEN <https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/57882>, and De Gruyter <https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9789048554331/html#contents>. These sites provide additional details about the book. Please check it out! Wishing you all a wonderful holiday season, Ya Zuo Secretary, Society for Song, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasties Studies