FASS Brown Bag Seminar by Dr. Jennifer Yip | Reconsidering Civil-Military Relations in Wartime China: The Curious Case of “Civil-Military Cooperation Stations,” 1937–1949
Dear all,
You are cordially invited to the fourth session of the FASS Brown Bag Seminar Series in Semester 2 of AY25/26. Dr Jennifer Yip (NUS History) will be presenting a talk titled "Reconsidering Civil-Military Relations in Wartime China: The Curious Case of "Civil-Military Cooperation Stations," 1937–1949."
Date: 18 Mar, 12pm-1pm
Venue: Zoom and in-person (FASS Research Division Seminar Room AS7 06-42)
Lunch will be provided for in-person attendees.
Reconsidering Civil-Military Relations in Wartime China: The Curious Case of "Civil-Military Cooperation Stations," 1937–1949
I examine “civil-military cooperation stations,” a unit through which Nationalist government army divisions could draw on local resources during China’s war against Japan and the subsequent Civil War. There is virtually no literature on these cooperation stations as mediums of local mobilization. I suggest that these stations are worthy of focused study, but not only or primarily for their material contributions to the Nationalist government's war efforts. Rather, Nationalist leaders envisioned them primarily as vehicles of political work - namely, the molding of civil-military relations. These stations, which emerged in China and then parts of Taiwan, lead us to probe changing conceptions of the role of the armed forces in early twentieth-century Chinese politics.
Jennifer Yip is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History. She focuses on modern Chinese history and global strategic thought. Her research interests center on the mechanisms and socio-economic effects of war mobilization in twentieth-century China.