Peter Worthing, Ph.D.

• Articles & Essays
  • "The 'Acid Test' of the Revolution: Demobilization and the Collapse of Chiang Kai-shek's Military Coalition in 1929," Twentieth-Century China, Volume 46, 3 (October 2021): 268-286. https://doi.org/10.1353/tcc.2021.0024 
  • “A Tale of Two Fronts: China’s War of the Central Plains, 1930” War in History, (2017): 1-24. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0968344516685927
  • “Continuity and Change: Chinese Nationalist Army Tactics, 1925-1938,” The Journal of Military History, 78, 3 (July 2014): 995-1016.
  • “The Eastern Expeditions of 1925: A Defining Moment in the History of the Nationalist Military,” [當代中國研究] Modern China Studies, 17, 2 (2010): 19-47.
  • “From Bac Le to Haiphong: Local Officials, Miscommunication, and Sino-French Conflict in Vietnam,” War & Society, 27, 2 (October 2008), 25-41.
  • “Toward the Minjiu Incident: Militarist Conflict in Guizhou, 1911-1921,” Modern China, 33, 2 (April 2007): 258-283.
  • “The Road Through Whampoa: The Early Career of He Yingqin,” The Journal of Military History, 69, 4 (October 2005): 953-986.
• Books
  • General He Yingqin: The Rise and Fall of Nationalist China. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2016.
  • A Military History of Modern China: From the Manchu Conquest to Tian’anmen Square.  Praeger Security International, Westport, Connecticut, 2007.
  • Occupation and Revolution: China and the Vietnamese August Revolution of 1945, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 2001.

• “A Tale of Two Fronts: China’s War of the Central Plains, 1930” Chinese Military History Society Annual Conference, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, April 14, 2016.
• “A Case of Mistaken Perception: He Yingqin and American Officials in Wartime China,” Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, October 11, 2015.
• “Ho Ying-ch’in and the Development of the National Revolutionary Army,” 國軍與現代化：黃埔建軍九十年國際學術討論會 [National Army and Modernization: An International Academic Conference on the 90th Anniversary of the Founding of the Whampoa Military Academy and the National Army], Academia Historica, Taipei, Taiwan, June 14, 2014.
• “’A Force for a Thousand Year War of Resistance’: Nationalist Conscription in the Sino-Japanese War, 1927-1945,” Chinese Military History Society Annual Conference, Kansas City, Missouri, April 3, 2014.
• “Militarization and Modernization: He Yingqin and Nationalist China.” Presentation at “Revisiting Modern China at the Hoover Archives” workshop, Hoover Institution at Stanford University, Stanford, California, August 7, 2013.
• “Continuity and Change in the Nationalist Army, 1925-1937,” Association of Asian Studies Conference, San Diego, CA, March 22, 2013.
• “The Forgotten Front: The Eastern Campaign in the Northern Expedition,” Society for Military History Conference, Washington, D.C., May 12, 2012.
• “The Eastern Expeditions of 1925: Dress Rehearsal or Defining Moment?” Chinese Military History Society Conference held in conjunction with the Society for Military History Conference, Lexington, Virginia, October 19-22, 2010.

• 2019 Michael R. Ferrari Award for Distinguished University Service and Leadership
• 2016 AddRan Distinguished Faculty Lecture

Editorial board, Journal of Chinese Military History