The Chinese Military History Society will hold its 2015 conference at the Renaissance Hotel & Spa in Montgomery, Alabama, on Thursday, April 9, in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Society for Military History. The program will include the following papers:
Peter Lorge (Vanderbilt University), “The Martial Arts and Qi Jiguang’s Military Method”
Kenneth M. Swope (University of Southern Mississippi), “The Bitter End: The Annihilation of the Kuidong 13 in the Early Qing”
Man-tak Kwok (University of Cambridge), “7,000 Men to Capture a Capital: On the Northern Campaign of Chen Qingzhi”
David A. Graff (Kansas State University), “Eight Reasons Not to Trust the Questions and Replies”
Eric Setzekorn (George Washington University), “Qing Warfare and the Ethnic Cleansing of 1860’s Shaanxi”
Ricardo K.S. Mak (Hong Kong Baptist University), “Interpreting Constantin von Hanneken’s Three Reports on the Battle of the Yellow Sea”
Chi Man Kwong (Hong Kong Baptist University), “Introduction of Modern Military Science in Republican China: Northeast Journal of Military Studies of the Fengtian Army as Example”
Arthur Waldron (University of Pennsylvania), “‘Invincible Madrid’ in the Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945”
Peter Chen-Main Wang (National Central University), “Marshall and Wartime China”
Li Jie (King’s College London), “A People’s Army Fighting A People’s War: The Continuity and Change in PLA’s Warfighting, 1950-79”
Xiaobing Li (University of Central Oklahoma), “The Forgotten Battle: Two Stories of the Chosin Reservoir in the Korean War, 1950”
The final schedule for the conference will be sent to CMHS members in February.