The Chinese Military History Society will hold its 2021 conference online on Friday, May 14. The theme of this year's conference is “Turning Points in Chinese Military History.” This includes decisive events that changed the course of battles, campaigns, and wars, as well as new departures in military thought and key changes in weaponry, tactics, and institutions. Papers may address any historical period from antiquity to the present. As usual, papers are not required to address the conference theme; proposals on other subjects related to the military history of China and other East Asian countries will be considered as well.

The CMHS 2021 conference will follow the same format as the 2020 conference: presentations will be pre-recorded and then streamed through Facebook on the day of the conference, with Q&A, comment, and discussion done in writing using the chat function.

If you are interested in presenting at the CMHS conference, please send your name and contact information, a paper abstract of no more than 250 words, and a brief C.V. to David Graff by January 15, 2021.

The CMHS 2020 Virtual Conference abstracts are now available in the Conference section

Videos of the presentation are available on our facebook page https://www.facebook.com/ChineseMilitaryHistorySociety/

Dear colleagues,

We would like to announce a new research tool that has been launched at the Autonomous University of Barcelona as part of our European Research Council-funded project on Toyotomi Hideyoshi's Invasions of Korea.

The Database of Research on the Imjin War brings together bibliographic information on modern books, articles, and dissertations relating to Hideyoshi's Invasions (also known as the Imjin War, the term we are using), and makes that information available to scholars in one easily searchable location. Our hope is that this multilingual database will help scholars keep abreast of the latest developments in other language areas, or become familiar with what has already been written on this important topic.

https://aftermath.uab.cat/about-the-database/

Work on the database is ongoing. As of April 2020 we have over 350 entries in nine languages. The range of subjects is as broad as possible in order to reflect the wide-reaching effects of the war. Subjects include captives, ceramics, Christianity, international relations, economy, environment, Europeans, identity, literature, military history, migration, social history, and trade. The data for each entry can be exported as an RIS file or imported from metadata to your citation software. We will be updating the contents of the database regularly as our project progresses, as well as continuing to improve the search and export functionality.

Our wider project, Aftermath of the East Asian War of 1592-1598, combines Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and European primary sources in order to understand the impact of the Imjin War and its implications for seventeenth-eighteenth century East Asia. Information on the project can be found here:

https://aftermath.uab.cat/

Best wishes,

Barend Noordam

Barend Noordam
Postdoctoral Researcher
Departament de Traducció i d'Interpretació i d'Estudis d'Àsia
Oriental
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
https://aftermath.uab.cat/member/dr-barend-noordam/.

Member of ERC Horizon 2020 project "Aftermath of the East Asian
War of 1592-1598" (758347).
https://aftermath.uab.cat/.
This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 758347).

Issue 9.1 of the Journal of Chinese Military History was published in May 2020. It includes three books reviews, plus the following three articles and one research note:

Yan Hon Michael Chung, "The Introduction of European- Style Artillery and the Reform of Siege Tactics in 17th- Century China -- a Case Study of the Tragedy of Jiangyin (1645)," pp. 1-37.

Nicolas Schillinger, "Playing Soldiers: The War Game in Late Qing and Republican China," pp. 38-64.

Tomer Nisimov, "The Role of North Korea in China's Civil War: The Soviet-led North Korean Assistance to the CPC in the Northeast Theater, 1946-1948," pp. 65-97.

Benjamin Avichai Katz Sinvany, "Research Note: Revisiting the Dazu 'Bombard' and the World's Earliest Representation of a Gun," pp. 99-113.