The Chinese Military History Society will hold its 2013 conference at the New Orleans Sheraton on Thursday, March 14, in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Society for Military History. The program will include the following papers:
Laura M. Calkins (Texas Tech University), “Sino-Viet Minh Military Cooperation Along the Border, Early 1949”
Brian J. DeMare (Tulane University), “Rethinking Frontline Propaganda in China’s Revolutionary Wars”
Ines Eben v. Racknitz (Nanjing University), “The China War of 1860: British and French Perceptions of the Qing Army”
Elisabeth Kaske (Carnegie Mellon University), “Is there a Counter-history of the Hunan Army?”
Joshua T. Ku (University of Hawai’i), “Airpower as a Tool of Diplomacy: The Case of the Sino-American Alliance in World War II”
Chi Man KWONG (Hong Kong Baptist University), “‘Worthy Beiyang Soldiers’: Anguojun Officers during the Northern Expedition and beyond, 1925-1949”
Nathan H. Ledbetter (U.S. Army), “Reifying the Barricades: Historiography Issues in the Study of the Battle of Nagashino (1575)”
Xiaobing Li (University of Central Oklahoma), “Demythologizing ‘Human Wave’ Attack: Chinese Spring Offensive Campaign in the Korean War, 1951”
Peter Lorge (Vanderbilt University), “Sourcing Saltpeter in Song Dynasty China”
Ricardo King Sang MAK (Hong Kong Baptist University), “Western Advisers and Late Qing Chinese Military Modernization: A Case Study of Constantin von Hannekan (1854-1925)”
Edward A. McCord (George Washington University), “Soldiers as Vectors of Violence in Warlord Atrocities: A Social Analysis”
Ronald Chung-yam Po (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg), “Another Frontier: Revisiting the High Qing from a Maritime Perspective”
Eric Setzekorn (George Washington University), “The Military Identityin Late Republican China: Chinese Structures and Ideas of a Global Military Profession, 1945-1949”
Andrew R. Wilson (U.S. Naval War College), “The Three Myths of the Sanbao Eunuch: Re-conceptualizing the Voyages of Zheng He.”
