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.

Kenneth 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).

Kevin 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

Xiaobing 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.

The 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.

Parks 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

Geoff 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).

Yu-Ping Chang (PhD in Security Studies from Kansas State University) reports a recently published peer-reviewed book, China's New Imperialism: Nature, Causes, and Rationalization, part of Routledge's Asian States and Empires series.

Robin Yates: "Early Chinese Chariots and Carriages in War and Peace: Evidence from New Textual and Archaeological Sources," in Chariots in Antiquity: Essays on Honour of Joost Crouwel, edited by Peter Raulwing, Stefan Burmeister, Gail Brownrigg, and Katheryn M. Linduff.

Zhongping Chen’s new book, Transpacific Reform and Revolution: The Chinese in North America, 1898−1918, will be released by Stanford University Press in July 2023 (https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=35428). This book covers the political reforms promoted by Kang Youwei, a prominent reformer of modern China, among the Chinese in North America after 1898, as well as the revolutionary movements led by Sun Yat-sen, the "father of Republican China," until 1918. Additionally, this book uncovers previously untold stories of feminist politics, secret societies, and political assassinations that occurred within American and Canadian Chinatowns between 1898 and 1918.