2012 Annual Conference of the Chinese Military History Society

8:45AM-10:15AM   Session I 
Peter Lorge, Vanderbilt University, "War in the Discources on Salt and Iron"
Jonathan Skaff, Shippensburg University, "The Geo-Strategic Significance of Inner Mongolia: A Case Study of the Sui-Tang and Turk Empires"
George L. Israel, Macon State College, "Ming Court and Country during the Ning Princely Rebellion"

10:30AM-12:00PM   Session II
David Silbey, Cornell University, "Military Choices Made by the Empress Dowager Cixi during the Boxer Uprising" 
Edward A. McCord, George Washington University, "Predatory Warlordism: Wang Zhanyuan in Hubei"
Yan Xu, Ohio State University, "War Heroes: The Making of Soldiers' Masculinities in Modern China, 1925-1945"  

12:00PM-1:45PM   Lunch

1:45PM-3:00PM   Session III
Harold M. Tanner, University of North Texas, "Learning Through Practice: Chinese Communist Forces in the Three Expeditions /Four Defenses Campaign, Winter 1946-47"
Edward F. Chen, Flushing, NY, "Broken Fist': The Decline and Recovery of the Nationalist Armor Force during the Chinese Civil War, 1945-50"

3:15PM-4:30PM   Session IV 
Benjamin Knight, UC Berkeley, "People's Army versus People's Party: Comparing Domestic Military Influence in Postwar China and North Korea"
Xiaoming Zhang, U.S Air War College, "A Reassessment of the 1979 War"

Please RSVP at go.gwu.edu/ChinaMilitaryMay10 by Wednesday, May 9, 2012