Mini-Conference on Asian Political History: War Made Legacies and Legacies Made War: Asia’s 20th-Century Conflicts

Session Submission Type: Created Panel

Part of Mini-Conference

• Mini-Conference on Asian Political History

Session Description

Panel 1: War Made Legacies and Legacies Made War: Asia’s 20th-Century Conflicts

The first panel explores how wars have shaped contemporary states and society in Asia. Joo offers an alternative explanation on violence against civilians during wartime based on analysis of new archival data on prewar protest activity in South Korea and civilian killings during the Korean War. Luo traces the organizational linkages of CCP pre-1949 mobilization, and find a positive correlation between revolutionary mobilization and the enforcement of the National Land Reform Campaign (1950-53). Saijo explores the deployment of Japanese conscripts to Russia during the Siberian Intervention as an exogenous shock in the local population to estimate the impact of revolutionary ideology on rural class conflict. Finally, Qian examines the effect of pre-existing state-society relations on the states’ intention and ability to make war based on a new dataset during the Warlord Era (1912–1927)

Sub Unit

• Division 7: Politics and History

Individual Presentations

• Difficult to Bend: Pre-war Mobilization and Violence against Civilians during Wars - Hojung Joo, Harvard University

• Revolutionary Legacies and Redistribution: Guerrilla Warfare, Revolutionary Agents, and Land Reform in Communist China - Kevin Wei Luo, University of Minnesota

• Determining the Subjective Conditions for Contention: The Effect of Exposure to the Russian Revolution on Peasant Movements in Japan - Harunobu Saijo

• Revenue Structure, State Autonomy, and War Making in Warlord China (1912-1927) - Jingyuan Qian, University of Chicago

Chair

• Dan Slater University of Michigan

Discussants

• Eun A Jo Cornell University

• Aram Hur The Fletcher School, Tufts University