James P Geiss and

What they fund

mingchinaconferencestudiesgeissearlychineseculture

Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

• The University of British Columbia3 grants · $89,284
• University of Washington Press6 grants · $71,550
• National Humanities Center1 grant · $60,000
• Books Arts Press Inc Dba Rare Book School1 grant · $57,000
• Society for Ming Studies Inc Harvard University3 grants · $38,000
• Society for Ming Studies3 grants · $37,000
• Arizona State University for a New American University2 grants · $34,120
• Columbia University Press4 grants · $32,000
• Michigan State University1 grant · $28,404
• Princeton University Library1 grant · $27,000

Giving over time

Grant history

All 52 reported grants, largest first.

• $72,944

  The University of British Columbia · 2024

  Geiss-hsu postdoctoral fellowship in ming studies (post-doc / pi: bruce rusk)

• $60,000

  National Humanities Center · Research Triangle Park, NC · 2023

  Geiss hsu fellow (xiolin duan).

• $57,000

  Books Arts Press Inc Dba Rare Book School · Charlottesville, VA · 2023

  Books in ming china, a rare book school course at princeton.

• $28,404

  Michigan State University · East Lansing, MI · 2022

  Workshop, "nonproducing skills: failure, maintenance, recycling, and transport in early modern east asia"

• $27,000

  Princeton University Library · Princeton, NJ · 2024

  Ghf support for fpul grants (research grants / pi: mireille djenno)

• $22,120

  Arizona State University for a New American University · Tempe, AZ · 2023

  Translating the china and east asian world portrayed in choson korean literature.

• $21,600

  Granada University · 2023

  Organizing a workshop for a co-edited volume on the landscape culture of west lake.

• $20,388

  Mount Holyoke College · South Hadley, MA · 2022

  A conference on border-crossing in the ming

• $20,000

  President and Fellows of Harvard College · Boston, MA · 2024

  Exploring literati discourses, 14th- 18th centuries (open-access public platform / pi: peter bol)

• $20,000

  Rare Book School University of Virginia · Charlottesville, VA · 2024

  Rbs-geiss hsu foundation scholarship (scholarships / pi: michael suarez, s.j.)

• $20,000

  China Institute in America · New York, NY · 2022

  Flower on a river: the art of chinese flower and bird painting, 1368-1911 masterworks from tianjin museum and changzhou museum (exhibition)

• $20,000

  Society for Ming Studies Inc Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2022

  New voices in ming studies: presentations of new research on ming china

• $17,000

  Martin J Heijdra Dba Ming Studies · Princeton, NJ · 2024

  Journal of the society for ming studies editorship

• $17,000

  Society for Ming Studies · Princeton, NJ · 2023

  Journal of the society for ming studies editorship.

• $15,504

  Association for Asian Studies · Ann Arbor, MI · 2022

  Project award - geiss hsu annual conference travel grantproject award

• $15,000

  University of Washington Press · Seattle, WA · 2024

  Wading barefoot through a mountain stream: the travel diaries of xu xiake (1587-1641); james hargett, lead translator and editor; print and open access publication

• $15,000

  University of Washington Press · Seattle, WA · 2022

  Chinese autobiographical writing: an anthology of personal accounts; patricia buckley ebrey, cong ellen zhang, and ping yao, translators (oa and print)

• $14,805

  The University of North Carolina · Charlotte, NC · 2024

  China on the move (conference / pi: dan du)

• $14,550

  University of Washington Press · Seattle, WA · 2023

  More uw press / geiss hsu foundation open access books: three translations.

• $13,592

  Academia Sinica · 2022

  A conference on border-crossing in the ming

• $12,000

  Arizona State University for a New American University · Tempe, AZ · 2024

  Worlding the ming empire in global early modernity (conference, pi: xiaoqiao ling)

• $12,000

  Society for Ming Studies · Princeton, NJ · 2023

  Global voices in ming studies: a roundtable on new books by international scholars of the ming.

• $11,596

  The Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia · Charlottesville, VA · 2024

  Plant humanities in china (workshop / pi: natasha heller)

• $10,000

  Modern Language Association of America · New York, NY · 2023

  Geiss-hsu conference travel grant.

• $10,000

  University of Washington Press · Seattle, WA · 2023

  Three impeachments: guo xiu and the kangxi court by r. Kent guy.

• $10,000

  Columbia University Press · New York, NY · 2022

  Master medium: li yu's technologies of culture in the early qing by se kile

• $10,000

  Cornell University Press · Ithaca, NY · 2022

  Bandits in print: the water margin and the transformations of vernacular fiction by scott gregory (oa and print)

• $10,000

  Society for Ming Studies Inc Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2022

  Promoting the journal of the society for ming studies (stipend for journal editor)

• $9,500

  University of Washington Press · Seattle, WA · 2022

  Two more uw press / geiss hsu foundation open access books

• $9,000

  Columbia University Press · New York, NY · 2022

  The matter of inscription in early modern china by thomas kelly

• $8,400

  The University of British Columbia · 2022

  How is china governed? From ming statecraft to xi's new era (conference)

• $8,000

  Martin J Heijdra Dba Ming Studies · Princeton, NJ · 2024

  Two book prizes in ming studies

• $8,000

  University of California Press Foundation · Oakland, CA · 2024

  Forger's creed by j.p. Park

• $8,000

  Society for Ming Studies · Princeton, NJ · 2023

  Two book prizes in ming studies.

• $8,000

  Society for Ming Studies Inc Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2022

  Two book prizes in ming studies

• $7,940

  The University of British Columbia · 2022

  Site - image - object: rethinking place in chinese visual and material culture (conference)

• $7,500

  Yale University Press · New Haven, CT · 2024

  The woven image: the making of mongol art in the yuan empire by yong cho

• $7,500

  University of Washington Press · Seattle, WA · 2023

  Games and play in chinese and sinophone culture, edited by li guo, douglas eyman, and hongmei sun.

• $7,000

  The University of Hong Kong · 2024

  The empress and the dragon throne: women in the imperial family in the first hundred years of china's ming dynasty by ellen soulliere

• $7,000

  Columbia University Press · New York, NY · 2022

  The precious summary: a history of the mongols from chinggis khan to the qing dynasty by sagang sechen. Translated by johan elverskog.

• $6,365

  The University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2023

  Recording "ghost village"

• $6,000

  Columbia University Press · New York, NY · 2023

  More swindles from the ming: scams, sex, and sorcery by zhang yingyu. Translated by christopher rea and bruce rusk.

• $6,000

  The University of Tennessee · Knoxville, TN · 2023

  Southeast us scholars & friends of late imperial china (seuss-flic)'s wulong / fifth dragon conference.

• $6,000

  University of Georgia · Athens, GA · 2022

  Zhonghe dragon conference (seuss-flic)

• $5,000

  Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2024

  Performance theory in early modern china

• $5,000

  University of California Regents · Santa Barbara, CA · 2023

  New approaches to the study of traditional chinese food culture: a workshop.

• $5,000

  Harvard Asia Center Publications Program · Cambridge, MA · 2022

  The cornucopian stage: performing commerce in early modern china by ariel fox

• $5,000

  University of Hawai'L Press · Honolulu, HI · 2022

  Remapping the world in east asia: toward a global history of "ricci map." mario cams and elke papelitzky, editors

• $4,117

  The University of Warwick · 2024

  Project planning meeting for project entitled: 'the workers of the ming world and their sources'

• $4,000

  Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System · Milwaukee, WI · 2024

  Mapping the weird manuscript review workshop (manuscript review workshop / pi: rania huntington)

• $4,000

  University of Manchester · 2024

  Project award - teaching the ming dynasty: humanities in class teachernotes

• $2,000

  Chinoperl · Albany, NY · 2024

  Music, language, and drama in late imperial china (special anniversary journal issue / pi: jing shen)

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