Greg Nedved from the Center for Cryptologic History at Ft. Meade, MD, would like to call researchers' attention to ISCOT. This was a British project during World War II to monitor the activity of Soviet agents by intercepting via radio their encrypted messages. It was quite successful, resulting in several volumes of decrypts. ISCOT includes a fair amount of information about the CCP-KMT relationship, e.g., discussion of Li Lisan. It also includes letters to Mao from his two boys, Anying and Anqing, then in the Soviet Union. The complete ISCOT set can be found at the National Cryptologic Museum's library, where it is available to researchers. If you have questions, you are welcome to contact Greg directly (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). He can tell you which item numbers pertain specifically to CCP-KMT relations, but please don't ask him to do any other research for you.
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Fri, 15 December 2023
Harold Tanner’s article “American Understandings of Chinese Strategy: A First-Draft Genealogy of the Search for a Chinese Way of War” will be published in the inaugural edition of the journal War Studies in April 2024.
Fri, 15 December 2023Kenneth Swope delivered a lecture entitled "Trickle-down Confucianism: War, Reconstruction, and Cultural Assimilation in the Late Qing,” at the Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (November 2023). He was also discussant for a panel entitled “The Cutting Edge: Weapons Technology in Postwar East Asia,” as part of the workshop “Mastery of Materialities: Resources and Technology in Post-Imjin East Asia (1598-1650),” held at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain (September 2023).
Fri, 15 December 2023Kevin McCauley reports that the Foreign Military Studies Office, US Army TRADOC just published his monograph The People's Liberation Army's Evolving Close Air Support Capability. The study examines PLA close air firepower support since its employment in the Yijiangshan amphibious operation, command and control, coordination, support to ground combat, Army Aviation support, employment of UAV/UCAVs, and future developments including intelligent technologies. A pdf can be found at https://community.apan.org/wg/tradoc-g2/fmso/m/fmso-monographs/452483
Fri, 15 December 2023Xiaobing Li published two books: China’s New Navy: The Evolution of PLAN from the People’s Revolution to a 21st Century Cold War (Naval Institute Press, 2023) and Sino-American Relations: A New Cold War, co-edited with Qiang Fang (Amsterdam University Press, 2023).
Li also published “China’s Support to the Vietnamese Communists,” in The Brown Water War at 50: A Retrospective on the Coastal and Riverine Conflict in Vietnam, eds. Thomas Culter and Edward Marolda (Naval Institute Press, 2023) and “Chinese Military History Research in the Past Forty Years,” War & Society 42 (Issue 2, 2023).
Li was invited to lecture at Ji’nan University, Guangzhou, June 6-19; to present “Japan’s Occupation of China: Impact, Memory, and Geopolitics” at the annual National Museum of the Pacific War Symposium on September 15-16; to talk about his new book at the Naval Institute on September 20; and to lecture on the Korean War at Air War College on October 11, 2023.
Fri, 15 December 2023The pictorial biography of Soong Mayling (1899-2003), 佳美的腳蹤： 宋美齡與她的時代 A Legacy of Grace and Resilience: Soong Mayling and her Era, edited by Nancy Chen with English translation by Esther Hu (Taipei: Minguo lishi wenhua xue she, 2023) has just been released in Taiwan. It contains a treasure trove of rare archival materials and images.
Fri, 15 December 2023Parks Coble did an interview for the New Books Network about his new book The Collapse of Nationalist China: How Chiang Kai-shek Lost China’s Civil War (Cambridge University Press, 2023).The podcast is approximately 50 minutes in length, and the interviewer is WANG Dong, a scholar of Republican China. Here is the link: https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-collapse-of-nationalist-china
Fri, 15 December 2023Geoff Babb published two articles in the Military Review in 2023: "China's Military History and Way of War: A Backgrounder" (March), and "2035: Sino-American Détente, From Near-Peer Foe to Near Ally Again" (November).