Hello Friends of the T'ang Studies Society, It is once again that exciting time of the year when the new issue of Tang Studies is about to appear. The 2019 issue (number 37) is coming off the presses as I write, so we will be sending the mailing list of current members to the publisher soon. If you have not yet renewed your membership for 2019, please do so now. If you cannot remember whether you have renewed (some of you did so way back in January), feel free to send us a message and we will check for you ( [ mailto:admin@tangstudies.org | admin@tangstudies.org ] ). As we announced at the Annual Meeting in Denver, we have a new slate of officers. I have transitioned to become president. Manling LUO has succeeded me as Treasurer, and Jonathan Skaff has assumed the new separate position of Secretary. As always, you can renew using PayPal through the link on the Membership page of the Society's website: [ http://tangstudies.org/Membership.html | http://tangstudies.org/Membership.html ] Alternatively, you can send a check drawn in U.S. dollars on a U.S. bank to: Manling LUO Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures Indiana University 355 North Jordan Avenue GISB 2058 Bloomington, IN 47405 If you plan to pay by check, please send a message to us letting us know, so that we can plan accordingly while the check is literally in the mail. Finally, in the spirit of the U.S. charitable calendar, I might mention that there is a donation link on the same Membership page if you would like to remember TSS before the end of the year. In any event, we hope your northern hemisphere autumns and southern hemisphere springs are proceeding well, and we look forward to more scholarly and collegial interaction in the coming months. Best, Tony Anthony DeBlasi President T'ang Studies Society