Shifen Fox joined the CMHS just in time to attend the April conference this year. Having obtained a PhD in comparative literature, Shifen started the Hengyang Battle project in 2005. With a research grant awarded by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange (USA), she embarked on a research trip the following year, which resulted in six essays in Chinese published in Taiwan and mainland China. To mark the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Hengyang Battle this year, Shifen has initiated and organized a book 《後代的承載：衡陽保衛戰八十年回首》（Weight borne by descendants: looking back the eighty years since the Battle of Hengyang), a collection of essays written by five descendants. The book is expected to be published in both Taiwan and mainland China by the end of this year.

Shifen has taken it as her obligation to make the story known to the English-speaking world. Early this year, she completed the Wikipedia entry, with the title "Battle of Hengyang", the first comprehensive and detailed account of the battle in English. She is now preparing to produce the first English book on the Battle of Hengyang.

Robin Yates reports one relevant publication:

"Early Chinese Chariots, Carriages, and Carts in War and Peace: Evidence from New Textual and Archaeological Sources,” in Chariots in Antiquity: Essays in Honour of Joost Crouwel, edited by Peter Raulwing, Stefan Burmeister, Gail Brownrigg, and Katheryn M. Linduff, pp. 215-30. BAR Publishing, Oxford, 2023, released 2024.

And two presentations:

“On the Military in the Qin and Early Han: New Evidence from Excavated and Recovered Sources,” Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, April 11, 2024.

“A Brief History of Military Medicine: From Early Times through the Ming Dynasty,” Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Seattle, March 16, 2024.

Linh Vu has recently published three articles about military martyrs:

“(Un)rest in Revolution: Beijing’s Eight Treasures Mountain (Babaoshan) Revolutionary Cemetery and the Making of China’s National Memory.” Memory Studies 17, no. 1 (2024): 56–70.

A Walk in a Park of Memories: Nature, Leisure, and Remembrance at Shanghai Longhua Martyrs’ Cemetery." Transposed Memory: Visual Sites of National Recollection in 20th and 21st Century East Asia, ed. Alison J. Miller and Eunyoung Park, 182–99. Leiden: Brill, 2024.

"Remains of the republic: Fate, fortune and families of fallen soldiers in nationalist China." Human Remains and Violence: An Interdisciplinary Journal 9, no. 2 (2023): 18–39. (Open Access)

Barend Noordam reports a number of relevant publications and presentations in 2023 and 2024:

“Chinese Volley Fire and Metanarratives of World History.” Journal of
World History 34/3 (2023): 329-368.

“Book Review: Yang Haiying 杨海英, Cong “Tang jiang shu tie” kan Ming-Qing shidai de nanbing beijiang 从《唐将书帖》看明清时代的南 兵北将 (Southern Soldiers and Northern Generals during the Transitional Period of Ming & Qing: From the Perspective of Letters from Chinese Servicemen during Campaign in Korea).” Europe Research Centre for Chinese Studies Blog (2023): https://erccs.hypotheses.org/1825.

“Knowledge of the Enemy: Delineating the Wokou in the Late Ming,” 2024 Annual Conference of the Chinese Military History Society (CMHS), Arlington (USA), April 18, 2024.

“Island Barbarians 島夷 or Guo 國? The Chinese Imagined Political Geography of Japan around 1600,” Workshop “Beyond all Horizons: Geography and Imagination in Historical East Asia,” University of Salzburg, April 4-5, 2024.

“Ming-Chosǒn Naval Cooperation during the Imjin War (1592-1598),” 2024 Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference, Virtual Day, March 1, 2024.

“Normalizing the Navy: Ming Naval Expansion after the Imjin War,” Conference “Mastery of Materialities: Resources and Technology in Post-Imjin War East Asia (1598-1650),” Autonomous University of Barcelona, September 4-5, 2023.

“Ming Chinese Naval Mobilization for the Imjin War (1592-1598): Networks and Knowledge Circulation in East Asian Maritime Space,” 31st Conference of the Association for Korean Studies in Europe (AKSE), University of Copenhagen (Denmark), June 22-25, 2023.

“War and the Non-Combatant in the Late Ming: The Case of the Imjin War (1592-1598),” 2023 Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference, Boston (USA), March 16-19, 2023.

Dodge Billingsley is writing a book and producing a documentary film regarding the Utah 213th Armored Field Artillery Battalion’s run in with the CPV 180th Division during the second phase of the Chinese 5th Offensive during the Korean War. The publication and documentary will focus on both units, high- lighting the Chinese 180th Division, and its build up leading into the Chinese Spring Offensive (April 1951), and finally the fateful days of 26-28 May, when most of the division was destroyed by the 213th AFAB and elements of the U.S. 21st Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. The legacy of the 180th Division POWs taken between 26-28 May 1951 will also be examined as they represent almost a third of all Chinese prisoners taken during the war, and were part of the prisoner repatriation stumbling block that held up the armistice.
The book will be published through Helion and Co out of the UK. The film is being produced by Billingsley’s production company Combat Films and Research in participation with Prof (ret) Mark Peterson and Prof (ret) Eric Hyer. The film will be distributed internationally by Journeyman Pictures, based in Surrey UK, and a global distributor of documentary films.

The book and film are targeted to be done by May of 2025, in time for the 74th anniversary of the 27 May battle.

Social Media regarding the progress of the book and film includes both Facebook and Instagram pages with the current title of Miracle at Gapyeong (Kapyong)
https://www.instagram.com/kapyongmiracle213th/
https://www.facebook.com/KapyongMiracle213th

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.