Dear T'ang Studies Society members, I'm writing to let you know of an excellent workshop opportunity for members of TSS planned for Thursday and Friday, August 22-23 , at Harvard University that will be free of charge and run by Michael Fuller with help from others working on the China Biographical Database (CBDB). The workshop is for scholars with any research topic in Tang political, intellectual, religious, literary, or social history that involves networks of people and can use the China Biographical Database dataset. The workshop will begin with the general principles of relational databases as a way of modeling biographical information and then explain the details of how the tables in CBDB represent kinship, social relations, office-holding, etc. for pre-modern China. After an introduction to the querying interface provided by MS Access, the rest of the workshop will focus on how to use CBDB to explore the specific projects of the workshop participants. The final portion will show how to use the query results in social network analysis (SNA) and GIS software. (The workshop will be able to use the by-then -- we hope -- newly added data from Nick Tackett’s and Yao Ping’s research materials.) The workshop itself is free, and TSS is able to offer a travel subvention of $200 to any current TSS member who would like to attend. Lodging will be the responsibility of participants, but TSS will provide lunches and snacks for attendees for both days. Michael is prepared to offer the workshop to anyone who would like to be there, no matter how small a group--so I think it's a great opportunity for anyone who's in a position to take advantage of it. I will plan to be there myself for both days. If you would like to attend, please email Tony DeBlasi at admin@tangstudies.org as soon as possible so that we can estimate attendance. I hope to see some of you in Cambridge in August. Best wishes for the remainder of the summer, Anna Anthony DeBlasi Secretary-Treasurer T'ang Studies Society