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Society for Song Yuan and Conquest Dynasties Studies Welcome to the Society for Song Yuan and Conquest Dynasties Studies SSYCDS website. The Society is an international scholarly nonpolitical and nonprofit professional association of all persons interested in the study of Chinese Jurchen Khitan Tangut and Mongol history. Incorporated as a nonprofit corporation in 2011 the SSYCDS has been granted federal 501c3 nonprofit status. Our Mission The mission of the Society for Song Yuan and Conquest Dynasties Studies is to create a dynamic resource for university professors graduate students and independent scholars interested in the cultures of China from the tenth century and the founding of the Song and Liao dynasties to the end of the Yuan dynasty in the fourteenth century.