Dr. Xiaobing Li interviewed Ma Ying-jeou, President of the Republic of China (2008-2016), at Taipei, Taiwan, on June 9, 2017, for his new book, History of Taiwan (under contract with ABC-CLIO). He has three books published in 2017: The Cold War in East Asia (Routledge, 2018); Power versus Law in Modern China: Cities, Courts, and the Communist Party, co-author with Qiang Fang (University Press of Kentucky, 2017); and Urbanization and Party Survival in China, co-editor with Xiansheng Tian (Lexington Books, 2017). Li also published three articles in 2017: "How to Train the Dragon: Soviet Advisors and Assistance to the Chinese Navy, 1949-1960," in Naval Advising and Assistance: History, Challenges, and Analysis, edited by Donald Stoker and Michael T. McMaster (West Midlands, UK: Helion, 2017), 220-242; "Triangle of Allies: Vietnam, China, and the Soviet Union," in Oklahoma Humanities (Fall/Winter 2017), 28-36; and "Sino-Japanese Maritime Conflicts and Security Concerns in the East China Sea," in Maritime Security in the Indian Ocean and Western Pacific: Heritage and Contemporary Challenges, edited by Howard M. Hensel and Amit Gupta (London, UK: Routledge,2017).

Chang Jui-te (Chinese Culture University & Academia Sinica) published his 無聲的要角: 蔣介石的侍從室與戰時中國 [Silent but Significant: The Role of Chiang Kai-shek's Personal Secretariat in Wartime China] (Taipei: Commercial Press, 2017). His 山河動: 抗戰時期國民政府的軍隊戰力 [Shaking the Nation: Fighting Power of the Nationalist Army during the Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945] was published in 2015 by the Shehui kexue wenxian chubanshe in Beijing.

Glenn Griffith, Acquisitions Editor at the Naval Institute Press, recently contracted Kenneth Swope for his future book, Struggle for Empire in 19^th Century China: The True Story of General Zuo Zongtang. The publication date will be 2019 or 2020.

Victoria Tin-bor Hui contributed a chapter, “How Tilly’s Warfare Paradigm Is Revolutionizing the Study of Chinese State-Making,” to the volume edited by Lars Bo Kaspersen and Jeppe Strandsbjerg, Does War Make States? (Cambridge University Press, 2017), 268-295.

Eric Hundman will be moving from a fellowship at the Dickey Center of Dartmouth College to take up a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Political Science at NYU Shanghai this fall.

Dr. Xiaobing Li published his new book, Modern China: Understanding Modern Nations (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO) In December 2016. His co-edited book with Xiansheng Tian, Urbanization and Party Survival in China: People vs. Power, was published in 2017 by Lexington Books.

Kevin McCauley’s new publication, PLA System of Systems Operations: Enabling Joint Operations (January 30, 2017), can be found online at https://jamestown.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/System-of-Systems-Enabling-Joint-Operations.pdf?mc_cid=d52d9fcca5&mc_eid=5989243f07

Ken Swope's article "Causes and Consequences of the Ming Intervention in Vietnam in the Early Fifteenth Century" was published in Ming China: Courts and Contacts, 1400-1450, edited
by Craig Clunas, Jessica Harrison-Hall, and Luk Yu-ping (London: British Museum Press, 2016), pp. 37-46.

Professor Swope has accepted an offer to be co-editor of the Global Library of Military Strategy, a new series that will be published by the Naval Institute Press. He also has two recent
presentations to report:

"The Art of Being Awesome: The Grand Strategy of the Ming Dynasty," presented at the Chao Center for Asian Studies, Rice University, Houston, TX (October 2016).

"Chinese Ways of War, 1500-1800," presented at "The History of Violence: From Prehistory to the Present" Conference held in Rome, Italy (June 2016).

Kevin McCauley's article "PLA Yijiangshan Joint Amphibious Operation: Past is Prologue" was published in China Brief, volume 16, issue 14 (September 13, 2016). Here's the link:
http://www.jamestown.org/single/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=45750&no_cache=1&mc_cid=b96bf9e2a0&mc_eid=5989243f07

Bernard Cole reports that his latest book, China's Quest for Great Power: Ships, Oil, and Foreign Policy, was published by the U.S. Naval Institute Press in mid-November.

Stephen G. Craft has a new book out: American Justice in Taiwan: The 1957 Riots and Cold War Foreign Policy (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2016).

David Graff's book The Eurasian Way of War: Military Practice in Seventh-Century China and Byzantium was published by Routledge in April, as the eleventh volume in the "Asian States and Empires" series edited by Peter Lorge.