Maochun Yu, Professor

China; Military/Diplomatic History

Email:  yu@usna.edu

Education:

• Ph.D. - University of California, Berkeley
• M.A. - Swarthmore College
• B.A. - Nankai University

Recent Books:

The Dragon's War: Allied Operations and the Fate of China, 1937-1947 (The Naval Institute Press, August 2006).

OSS IN CHINA: Prelude to Cold War (New Haven and London: the Yale University Press, March 1997).

Meiguo jiandie zai zhongguo - meiguo danganguan juemi dangan (Chjinese edition of "OSS in China: Prelude to Cold War." Hong Kong, New York: Mirror Books, July 1999).

Recent Journal Articles and Book Chapters:

"Political and Military Factors Determining China's Use of Force," In Steve Tsang, ed. If China Attacks Taiwan, (Routledge, 2006), 17-34.

"Newspaper and the War in the China Theater during world War II," Intelligence, issue #4, May 2004, Tokyo, Japan, 4-11.

"Who Lost China? - Beginning of the Cold War In Asia," in Mark Wilkinson and Timothy Dowling ed., The Cold War - Opening shots, 1945-1950, Virginia Military Institute Press, 2003.

"In God We Trusted, In China We Busted: The China Commando Group of the Special Operations Executive (SOE)," Intelligence and National Security, *special issue: Lifting the Veil of Secrecy: Secret Services in China during World war II, February 2002), 37-60.

"The Taiping Rebellion: A Military Assessment of Revolution and Counterrevolution" in David A. Graff and Robin Higham ed., A Military History of China, (Westview Press, 2002), 135-151.

"Ideology and Diplomacy in the PRC: 1949-1979" in the Washington Journal of Modern China, Fall 1999, 77-92.

"Chinese Code-Breakers, 1927-1945" in David Alvarez ed., Allied and Axis Signals Intelligence in World War II, (London: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd., September 1999), 201-213.

Recent Book Reviews and Encyclopedia Entries:

Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, Mao: The Unknown Story, in Washington Journal of Modern China, Spring/Summer 2006, vol. 8, no. 1.

"Mercenaries, East Asia and the Pacific," and "Taiping Rebellion" in Jenai Mynatt ed. Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism since 1450, (London: McMillan Reference Books, 2006).

Christof Mauch, The Shadow War Against Hitler: The Covert Operations of America's Wartime Secret Intelligence Service, in American Historical Review, June 2005.

Bernard Wasserstein, Secret War in Shanghai, in American Historical Review, Oct. 2000.

James Webb, Emperor's General, in Shipmates, June 1999.