Hannibal Taubes reports the publication of an article, "The Four Forts of Repkong: A Tu Community between China, Tibet, and Mongolia, 1370-1730," pp. 13-50 in "Mapping Amdo: Dynamics of Power," Archiv Orientální, Supplementa XI (Prague: Oriental Institute CAS, 2019).

Wicky Tse has published two pieces:

漢帝國緣邊與內部的「游離群體」―—兼論秦漢帝國天下觀的想 像與現實 [A preliminary survey of the free-floating elements in early imperial China] in 동서인문 (東西人文) Journal of East-West Humanities, vol. 12 (2019): 45-65.

"Violence and Warfare in Early Imperial China," in The Cambridge World History of Violence, Vol. I: The Prehistoric and Ancient Worlds, edited by Garrett G. Fagan, Linda Fibiger, Mark Hudson, and Matthew Trundle (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 277-295.

Harriet Zurndorfer (Leiden University) announces the publication in March 2020 of volume 2 of The Cambridge World History of Violence 500-1500, which she co-edited with Matthew Gordon and Richard Kaeuper. The volume contains 31 essays, some which are authored by a number of CMHS members, and covers regions in East and Central Asia. There are both hard and electronic copies available.

Kenneth Swope reports the publication of his edited volume The Ming World (London: Routledge, 2019). In addition to editing the volume, he also contributed two chapters to it: "The Legend of Tang Saier," pp. 311-321, and "From Peasant Rebel to Ming Loyalist: The Career of Li Dingguo,"pp. 385-402. Swope also published an article on Zuo Zongtang: "General Zuo's Counter-Insurgency Doctrine" Small Wars and Insurgencies 30.4-5 (2019), pp. 937-967.

Kristin Mulready-Stone published a chapter, "The Impact of the Russian Revolution on the Chinese Youth Movement," in The Global Impacts of Russia's Great War and Revolution, Book 2: The Wider Arc of Revolution, Part 2, edited by Choi Chatterjee, Steven G. Marks, Mary Neuberger, Steve Sabol (Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers, 2019), pp. 225-252. (This is part of a many volume set commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution and Civil War.)

• China's War in Korea: Strategic Culture and Geopolitics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).
• Building Ho's Army: Chinese Military Assistance to North Vietnam (University Press of Kentucky, 2019).
• The History of Taiwan (ABC-CLIO/Greenwood, 2019).
• A Century of Student Movements in China: The Mountain Movers, 1919-2019, first co-editor with Qiang Fang (Lexington
  Books, 2019).
• The Dragon in the Jungle: The Chinese Army in the Vietnam War (Oxford University Press, January 2020).

David Graff has a chapter on "The Art of War" in The Cambridge History of China, vol. 2: The Six Dynasties, 220-589, edited by Albert E. Dien and Keith N. Knapp (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. 275-295.

John Dardess reports the publication of a new book, More than the Great Wall: The Northern Frontier and Ming National Security, 1368-1644, from Rowman & Littlefield. Although its official publication date is 2020, the book is already out.

As of January 2020, Ernest Caldwell will transfer from the SOAS School of Law to the SOAS Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and hold the post of Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies. He will teach Classical Chinese as well as courses on premodern Chinese legal and strategic cultures. And he will get back to researching excavated legal and military manuscripts.

Yan Xu reports two recent publications: The YMCA at War: Collaboration and Conflict during the World Wars, edited by Yan Xu and Jeffrey Copeland (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018), and "Befriending Soldiers: The Emergency Service to Soldiers Program of the Chinese YMCA during the Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945," in The Soldier and State Building in Modern China, 1924-1945 (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2019). She received the 2019 Spelman College Presidential Award for Excellence in Scholarship and will chair Spelman College's Department of History beginning this August.