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