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Issue 3.1 of the Journal of Chinese Military History was published in May 2014. It is a special issue on "Armies of Learning" edited by Professor Xiaobing Li, with six book reviews and the following two articles:

 

"Learning Through Practice: Lin Biao and the Transition to Conventional Combined Arms Operations in China's Northeast, 1946-1948" by Harold M. Tanner.

"Classical Methods: The Influence and Use of Chinese ClassicalMilitary Philosophy in the Writings of Mao Zedong" by EdwardN. Smith.

 

Beginning with this issue of JCMH, the publisher (Brill) is no longer offering unrestricted online access to the journal. CMHS members will enjoy free access to JCMH via the Members Section of the new CMHS Web site <www.cmhsociety.org>. In the next few days, you should receive a separate email with your username, password, and instructions for accessing the journal. If you have not received this by July 2, please contact David Graff <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>. 

 

JCMH 3.2, scheduled for December 2014, will have two articles:

 

"Dynamic Divisions: The Tactics of Weiqi and Strategic Space in Imperial China" by Garret Olberding.

"Qi Jiguang's 'Oral Instructions from the Podium'" by Pak Shun Ng.

 

 

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"