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journal cover smallIssue 12.1 of the Journal of Chinese Military History was published in May 2023. A special issue on riverine warfare edited by Ken Swope and Jim Bonk, it includes four book reviews and the following articles:
 
James Bonk, "Introduction: Riverine Warfare," pp. 1-5.
 
Wicky W.K. Tse, "The Tactical Role of Rivers in Early Chinese Warfare," pp. 7-23.
 
Xiaobing Li, "River Defense and Fleet Building: The Song Navy in the Wars against the Jin and Mongol Forces," pp. 24-39.
 
Yan Hon Michael Chung, "River Transport and the Effectiveness of the Qing Artillery Corps during the Ming-Qing Transition," pp. 40-62.
 
Kenneth M. Swope, "Boats, Barbarians, and Bandits: Riverine Warfare and the Taiping Rebellion," pp. 63-91

 
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2023 Annual Conference of the Chinese Military History Society
 
Meeting in conjunction with the Society for Military History, San Diego, California
Thursday, March 23, 2023
 
 
Session 1: 8:30-9:50 Early China
 
Paul Nicholas Vogt (Indiana University), “King Wen’s Just War: The Conquest of Chong 崇 in Early Chinese Discourse.”
 
Chun Fung Tong (Heidelberg University), “The Emergence of Military Logistics Network and State-Level Fiscal Institution during the Qin Conquest.”
 
 
Session 2: 10:00-11:20 Japan
 
Nathan H. Ledbetter (Princeton University), “Making the Foreign Familiar: The ‘Global’ Aspects of the Battle of Mimigawa, 1578.”
 
Danny Orbach (Hebrew University), “‘Let the Commander Respond’: The Paradox of Obedience in the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces.”
 
 
LUNCH BREAK
 
 
Session 3: 1:00-2:20 China’s Republic, 1911-1949
 
Edward A. McCord (Emeritus, The George Washington University), “Defining Modern Chinese Warlordism: A Comparative Analysis.”
 
Harold Tanner (University of North Texas), “Defeating a Superior Enemy with an Inferior Force: Strategy, Operations and Tactics in Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping’s Shanxi-Henan-Shandong-Hebei Field Army, 1945-1947.”
 
 
Session 4: 2:25-3:45 PRC: Psychological Warfare
 
Yinou Chang (National Chengchi University, Taiwan), “The Power of Encouragement: The Chinese People’s Volunteer Force’s Psychological Strategy and the Success of Its Political Control during the Korean War.”
 
Xiaobing Li (University of Central Oklahoma), “Defected PLA Pilots: Psychological Warfare over the Taiwan Strait.”
 
Session 5: 3:50-5:15 PRC: Alliances & Military Institutions
 
Zhongtian Han (The George Washington University), “Playing the Dragon against the Eagle: Soviet Policy towards China during the Armistice Negotiations of the Korean War, 1951–1953”
 
Yu-Ping Chang (Fulbright Taiwan), “The PRC’s 2016 Military Reforms: Clean House for a Better Future?”
 
 
All sessions will be held in the Sapphire 400 room (4th floor) of the Hilton San Diego Bayfront.
 
 
 

journal cover smallIssue 11.2 of the Journal of Chinese Military History was published in November 2022. It includes four book reviews and the following articles:

  • Paul D. Buell, “The Song Resistance Movement, 1276-1279:
  • An Episode in Chinese Regional History,” pp. 103-166.
  • Chi Ho Kiang, “The Hierarchy of Calories? State Intervention, Food Rationing, and Food Smuggling in Occupied Tianjin (1937-1945),” pp. 167-201.
  • JCMH 12.1, scheduled for publication in May 2023, will be a special issue focusing on riverine warfare in China.

The external website of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has some publicly released issues of Dragon Seed, an in-house Asia/China publication dating from the early 1970s. Although heavily redacted, these issues contain material of interest to more than just cryptologists. The March 1972 issue, for example, includes an article on "The Strategic Importance of Shenyang Military Region." Here is the link:

https://www.nsa.gov/Helpful-Links/NSA-FOIA/Declassification-Transparency-Initiatives/Internal-Periodicals-Publications/igpage/3/#dragon-seeds

Thanks to Greg Nedved for bringing this to the editor's attention.

Member Notes

  • Yu-Ping Chang

    Thu, 29 June 2023

    Yu-Ping Chang (PhD in Security Studies from Kansas State University) reports a recently published peer-reviewed book, China's New Imperialism: Nature, Causes, and Rationalization, part of Routledge's Asian States and Empires series.

  • Robin Yates: "Early Chinese Chariots and Carriages in War and Peace: Evidence from New Textual and Archaeological Sources"

    Thu, 29 June 2023

    Robin Yates: "Early Chinese Chariots and Carriages in War and Peace: Evidence from New Textual and Archaeological Sources," in Chariots in Antiquity: Essays on Honour of Joost Crouwel, edited by Peter Raulwing, Stefan Burmeister, Gail Brownrigg, and Katheryn M. Linduff.

  • Clemens Büttner reports three recent publications

    Thu, 29 June 2023
    “The National Protection War and the Intellectual Foundations of Chinese Warlordism.” In Modern China, open access, online first, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1177/00977004231153331
     
    “Liang, Qichao.” In 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War, edited by Ute Daniel et al., issued by Free University Berlin, Berlin, 2023. https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/liang_qichao 
     
    Review of Jindai Zhongguo zhi bianzhou: Junfa huayu jiangou, shengzhi biange yu guojia 近代中国之变轴：军阀话语建构、 省制变革与国家 [The Axis of Change in Modern China: The Construction of the Discourse on Warlordism, the Reform of the Provincial System, and the State] by Weng Youwei 翁有为 (Beijing: Renmin chubanshe, 2021), in the Book Reviews section of the European Research Centre for Chinese Studies, 1 April 2023. https://erccs.hypotheses.org/1806 

  • Zhongping Chen’s new book, Transpacific Reform and Revolution: The Chinese in North America

    Thu, 29 June 2023

    Zhongping Chen’s new book, Transpacific Reform and Revolution: The Chinese in North America, 1898−1918, will be released by Stanford University Press in July 2023 (https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=35428). This book covers the political reforms promoted by Kang Youwei, a prominent reformer of modern China, among the Chinese in North America after 1898, as well as the revolutionary movements led by Sun Yat-sen, the "father of Republican China," until 1918. Additionally, this book uncovers previously untold stories of feminist politics, secret societies, and political assassinations that occurred within American and Canadian Chinatowns between 1898 and 1918.

  • June Teufel Dreyer

    Thu, 29 June 2023
    June Teufel Dreyer recently completed a study of China and cybersecurity for Joint Special Operations University (JSOU): Integrated Deterrence, Cyber, and the CPP.

  • Esther Hu's English translation of "Ten Thousand Scrolls of Books"（萬卷詩書)

    Thu, 29 June 2023

    Esther Hu reports that her English translation of "Ten Thousand Scrolls of Books"（萬卷詩書), the second chapter of Chinese Nationalist general Hu Tsung-nan and Dr. Yeh Hsia-Ti's love story 《天地悠悠》, has been published in Studies on Asia, Vol. 7, Issue 1 (2022), pp. 100-118.

  • Timothy May: “The Tamma Military Institution in the Mongol Empire,”

    Thu, 29 June 2023

    Timothy May gave two talks in Mongolia this spring: “The Tamma Military Institution in the Mongol Empire,” The Chinggis Khan Museum, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (May 19, 2023), and “The Tamma and Frontier Security in the Mongol Empire,” General Staff, Ministry of Defense, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (May 23, 2023). He also has a publication hot off the press: “Mongol Genocides of the 13th Century,” pp. 498-522 in The Cambridge World History of Genocide, vol. 1, Genocide in the Ancient, Medieval and Premodern Worlds, edited by Tristan Taylor and Ben Kiernan (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023).