Dear colleagues and friends, Following the success of the previous three gatherings of Middle Period scholars in 2014 at Harvard, 2017 at Leiden, and 2023 at Yale, we are very pleased to announce that City University of Hong Kong will host the Fourth Middle Period China Humanities Conference. The conference will take place in late May or early June of 2026, maintaining the regular three-year interval of this conference series. We welcome papers from all disciplines in the humanities (such as history, art history, literature, religious studies, and geography) that deal with China between 220 and 1600. We are especially interested in papers that address larger themes or use experimental approaches. To take full advantage of the gathering of scholars from different disciplines specializing in different dynastic periods, we plan to prioritize papers that discuss more than one dynastic period, study China in a broader geographical context, or use an interdisciplinary methodology. We expect to launch a conference website and start the CFP in the summer of 2025. The deadline to submit a paper proposal will be around November 2025, and we will announce the results around January 2026. The deadline for full paper submissions will be around mid-April 2026. The fourth conference will use the format of the third conference at Yale—each paper will be discussed twice, once in the context of a discipline-specific panel and once on an interdisciplinary panel. As a core tradition of this conference series, papers can be written and discussed in English and Chinese. Additionally, to continue a well-liked feature of the third conference, we plan to organize historical site visits and museum visits in Hong Kong, to give scholars more opportunities to interact outside the conference rooms. Please stay tuned for our future announcements. We look forward to seeing many of you in Hong Kong in 2026! Conference Organizing Committee: Shih-shan Susan HUANG (Rice University) IIYAMA Tomoyasu (Waseda University) LI Yiwen (City University of Hong Kong) LU Chia Hui (City University of Hong Kong) Jason PROTASS (Brown University) TSUI Lik Hang (City University of Hong Kong) ZHANG Wanmin (City University of Hong Kong) *Sponsored by the Tin Ka Ping Foundation*