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- Job announcement: David Dean Chair in Asian Studies [PDF file], University of Virginia (application deadline: December 1, 2012)
- The Ming Studies mailing list, formerly hosted at Colby College, is being replaced by a Google Groups list. Please join the new list to receive news and updates.
- From Peter Bol: The China Biographical Database Project have received a CCK grant to add 10,000 Ming figures to the CBDB database, basically incorporating all the datapoints in the 明人傳記資料索引. They will also mine the biographies in the Mingshi 明史. Work commences July 1, 2011. If there are Ming specialists who have sets of biographical data they would like to contribute to CBDB I hope they will get in touch with me.
