Dear colleagues and friends,
Hope you are doing well there!
Please join me in welcoming a new member to the SSYCDS listserv, Aelx
McColm. Below please find Alex's self introduction. Welcome to our
community!
My name is Alexander (or Alex more often) McColm and I am entering my third
year in the Bachelor of Science here at Vancouver Island University,
majoring in Computer Science. Chinese language and history interests me
personally, and I have been reading Keay's China: A History to learn the
basics. I hope to take Chinese language as electives to as high a level as
my university can provide and as high as can be accepted for my degree I
have taken one course already and it looks like I can take at least 3 to 5
more.
When I read about the unusual Chanyuan treaty, the first covered in that
history where one party was not submitting, etc. I went online to read more
about the Liao, and from the paper "Recent Japanese Scholarship on the
Multi-State Order" I found the Song-Yuan Society. More broadly I found the
concept of conquest dynasties very interesting. I would like to read
research that comes from this journal, and while I am studying something
else to furnish a career, I would like to go back to university to study
Chinese history one day, or even do archaelogy there.
Sincerely,
Ya Zuo
Secretary, Society for Song, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasties Studies