The Chinese Military History Society's 2014 conference will be held in Kansas City, Missouri, on Friday, April 4, in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Society for Military History (SMH). The final schedule will be sent out in early March, but here is a preview of the proposals that have been accepted by the Program Committee:
 
  • Xiaobing Li, "Chinese Deception and Limitation: CPVF Offensive Campaigns in the Korean War, 1950-51"
  • Yang Wei, "Knowledge of Deception for Sale: _Sunzi Cantong_, a Commercial Military Encyclopedia in Late Ming China"
  • Miri Kim, "Patterns of Ordinary and Extraordinary Consumption of the Northeast Military Academy in the 1920s and Early 1930s" 
  • Peter Lorge, "Warfare Is the Way of Cunning"
  • Eric Setzekorn, "Jiang Baili and China's Search for Military Modernity" 
  • Peter Worthing, "'A Force a Thousand Year War of Resistance': Nationalist Conscription in the Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945"
  • Harold Tanner, "Lin Biao's Principles of Tactics vs. the Human Wave: A Disagreement with Edward C. O'Dowd"
  • Laura Calkins, "The United Nations and the Chinese Militaries of the Civil War Period, 1946-1947: An Interim Report"
  • Nathan Ledbetter, "Tactical Intelligence, Counterintelligence,and Deception in 16th Century Japan: The Battle of Nagashino(1575)"
  • David Graff, "Brain over Brawn: Shared Beliefs and Presumptions in Chinese and Western Strategemata"
  • Elad Popovich, "The 'Thirty-Six Stratagems' and the Art of Modern Psychological Warfare"