Dr. Eli Alberts is a recipient of the Research Grant for Foreign Scholars of Chinese Studies, offered by the Center for Chinese Studies at the National Central Library in Taipei, Taiwan. He will be on leave during the Fall 2016 semester to work on his project, “The Charter of Emperor Ping and the Late Ming Novel.” This builds on several years of research that Dr. Alberts has conducted on a genre of document that has circulated from South China to northern Thailand in villages of the Yao ethnic minority. Dr. Alberts also has an article forthcoming in the journal Asian Ethnicity. His contribution “From Yao to Now: Daoism and the Imperialization of the China/Southeast Asian Borderlands,” will be featured as part of a special issue dedicated to the topic “Religion and Ethnicity in Southwest China.”