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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.

The Journal of Chinese Military History invites submissions for the Edward L. Dreyer Prize for the best article in Chinese military history by an early-career scholar. The late Professor Dreyer was a pioneer in the field of Chinese military history, publishing in a variety of historical periods, and an enthusiastic supporter of the Chinese Military History Society from its inception.

Submission Requirements
Articles should be based extensively on primary research, must not have been previously published in another form or outlet, and should not be currently under consideration by another journal or book series. Essays (between 7,500 and 20,000 words, including footnotes) should comply with the journal’s style sheet. Submissions for the 2022 prize should be sent by 31 October 2022. In order to allow for sufficient time for the peer review process, early submissions are welcomed.
Detailed submission instructions can be found here: brill.com/jcmh.
For further information, please contact the editors-in-chief, David A. Graff, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and David Curtis Wright, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The prize is open to graduate students who are currently registered at a higher education institute, or to those who have obtained their doctoral degree after January 1, 2015

Download Flyer for complete details

 

Member Notes

  • Mike Blake publication of Forces of The Boxer Rebellion & The Eight Power War

    Mon, 13 February 2023
    Mike Blake publication of Forces of The Boxer Rebellion & The Eight Power War

    Mike Blake announces the publication of Forces of The Boxer Rebellion & The Eight Power War (Nottingham, UK: Partizan Press, 2022). This is a limited edition, large format hardback, providing a comprehensive account of the conflict and a detailed study of the armies involved. It is very well illustrated and includes a multitude of color uniform plates by Mike Blake, Bob Marrion, and Nick Buxey. The work is split into three volumes: Vol. 1, The Dragon Provoked (240 pages); Vol. 2, The Dragon Rampant (240 pages); Vol. 3, The Dragon Subdued (276 pages).

  • June Teufel Dreyer's China’s Political System: Modernization and Tradition

    Mon, 13 February 2023

    The eleventh edition of June Teufel Dreyer's China’s Political System: Modernization and Tradition, which has a chapter on the Chinese military, is now being prepared by Routledge. Also, Professor Dreyer and two others have a contract with JSOU (Joint Special Operations University) to produce a book on China’s cyber capabilities.

  • Fu Yang 傅揚 and Michael Hoeckelmann starts new collaborative project

    Mon, 13 February 2023

    Fu Yang 傅揚 (History, National Taiwan University) and Michael Hoeckelmann (Chinese Studies, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) will start a new collaborative project titled "Violence and Cultures of Learning in Mid- and Late Tang China (9th–10th Cent.),” funded over two years (2023–25) through the Project-Based Personnel Exchange Programme of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) Taiwan. The project examines reflections on the legitimate use of violence in historical and philosophical writings from Tang China (618–907). It takes texts such as Du You’s 杜佑 (735–812) monumental institutional history Tongdian 通典 as a point of departure and analyses them against the backdrop of the military upheavals (rebellions, civil and interstate wars) of the time. As part of the project, the team (consisting of the two PIs and several students) will conduct research visits and host workshops at NTU and FAU.

  • David Graff's short essay “Metanarratives in Asian Military History”

    Mon, 13 February 2023
    David Graff's short essay “Metanarratives in Asian Military History”

    David Graff's short essay “Metanarratives in Asian Military History” was published in War & Society (online) on November 25, 2022

  • Esther Hu awarded an academic book contract

    Mon, 13 February 2023

    Esther Hu has been awarded an academic book contract for a research monograph on Madame Chiang Kai-shek and her contributions during World War II, especially her military contributions. If CHMS members have archival materials that they especially would like her to consider, they should feel free to shoot her an email (ethu@bu.edu).

  • Peter Lorge reports two publications

    Mon, 13 February 2023
    Peter Lorge reports two publications

    Peter Lorge reports two publications: a book, Sun Tzu in the West: The Anglo-American Art of War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2023), and an article, “The Martial Temple in the Song,” in History and Anthropology, published online 4 November 2022. Lorge will be an Irregular Warfare Initiative Fellow for 2023 (the IWI, jointly sponsored by the Modern War Institute at West Point and the Empirical Studies of Conflict Project at Princeton, is intended to bridge the gap between academic scholarship and irregular warfare practitioners).

  • Wicky Tse recent publications

    Mon, 17 January 2022

    Wicky Tse reports several recent publications:

    “Opportunism in Foreign Affairs in First Century BCE China: Chen Tang, His Fellows, and Their Patrons.” T’oung Pao 107 (2021): 233-261.

    “Early Imperial China.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Chinese Studies. Ed. Tim Wright. New York: Oxford University Press. see webpage

    〈亂世中的曙光——錢穆對中古早期歷史的一些看法〉(Ch’ien Mu’s view of early medieval China)，載李帆、黃兆強、區志堅主編 《重訪錢穆》(Revisiting Ch’ien Mu) (臺北：秀威資訊科技股份有限 公司), pp. 203-212.

    〈在理想與現實之間：《大學衍義補》所見丘濬的軍事觀〉 (Between Ideal and Reality: Qiu Jun’s View of Military Affairs in the Daxue yanyi bu) 《明史研究論叢》 18 (2021): 37-46.