The Tang Center for Early China operates at the intersection of archaeology, philology, and history, with a mandate to advance the study of early Chinese civilization. Its annual workshop and conference grant is not a general operating subsidy but a focused subvention for a single scholarly gathering. The Center seeks proposals organized around a central problem, a newly discovered corpus of materials or manuscripts, a significant archaeological site, or a coherent region. This is a curatorial instrument for shaping the field's attention, not a passive funding line. The grant covers travel and lodging for participants, as well as local arrangements such as taxi and meals, up to $20,000. It explicitly excludes salary replacement, honoraria, equipment purchases, and indirect institutional costs including administrative overhead. The workshop or conference must take place on the Columbia campus. The Center encourages applications from faculty members and scholars at peer institutions, and it gives preference to proposals that can yield future publications, particularly in the Tang Center's monograph series. The grant is offered once per academic year. For the applicant, the calculus is clear: the Center is investing in a convocation that will produce a durable scholarly artifact, not merely a transient event. The proposal should therefore demonstrate how the gathering's structure, participants, and thematic coherence will translate into a publishable volume or a significant intervention in the field. The absence of a submission fee and the specificity of eligible expenses suggest a review process attentive to intellectual purpose rather than administrative packaging.