Ken Swope's article "Causes and Consequences of the Ming Intervention in Vietnam in the Early Fifteenth Century" was published in Ming China: Courts and Contacts, 1400-1450, edited
by Craig Clunas, Jessica Harrison-Hall, and Luk Yu-ping (London: British Museum Press, 2016), pp. 37-46.
Professor Swope has accepted an offer to be co-editor of the Global Library of Military Strategy, a new series that will be published by the Naval Institute Press. He also has two recent
presentations to report:
"The Art of Being Awesome: The Grand Strategy of the Ming Dynasty," presented at the Chao Center for Asian Studies, Rice University, Houston, TX (October 2016).
"Chinese Ways of War, 1500-1800," presented at "The History of Violence: From Prehistory to the Present" Conference held in Rome, Italy (June 2016).
Bernard Cole reports that his latest book, China's Quest for Great Power: Ships, Oil, and Foreign Policy, was published by the U.S. Naval Institute Press in mid-November.
Stephen G. Craft has a new book out: American Justice in Taiwan: The 1957 Riots and Cold War Foreign Policy (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2016).
David Graff's book The Eurasian Way of War: Military Practice in Seventh-Century China and Byzantium was published by Routledge in April, as the eleventh volume in the "Asian States and Empires" series edited by Peter Lorge.
Peter Worthing's latest book was published was published in April: General He Yingqin: The Rise and Fall of Nationalist China (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016).