Minutes of the June 2002 Conference "Wartime China: Regional Regimes and Conditions, 1937-1945" (Sponsored by the U.S. Institute of Peace, Lee Folger, the Reischauer Institute, the Asia Center, and the Fairbank Center) Conference Participants: If you have any corrections to the minutes, please let us know at vhangell@fas.harvard.edu. Opening Remarks & Session 1: West China updated Session 2: North China Front updated Session 3: Shanghai updated Session 4: Northeast updated Session 5: North China Under Japanese Rule (1) updated Session 6: North China (2) updated Session 7: Central China updated Session 8: South China updated Session 9: Mongolia and Taiwan updated Wrap-up updated Conference Program Joint Research Conference Wartime China: Regional Regimes and Conditions, 1937-45 Harvard University, June 27-29, 2002 Sponsored by the U.S. Institute of Peace, Lee Folger, the Reischauer Institute, the Asia Center, and the Fairbank Center Wednesday, June 26 6:30 p.m. Welcome Reception and Dinner, Harvard Faculty Club Thursday, June 27 9 - 10:30 a.m. 1. West China – Chair: Ezra VOGEL Toru AJIOKA, “Jiang Jieshi's Campaign for Smaller Provincial Boundaries During the Sino-Japanese War” Discussant: Stephen MACKINNON Jui-te CHANG, “Ruling from Afar; A New Look at the Wartime Directives of Jiang Jieshi” Discussant: Tatsuo YAMADA 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. 2. North China Front – Chair: Diana LARY Hongyun WEI, “Commerce in Jin Ji Lu Yu Anti-Japanese Base Area During the Anti-Japanese War" Discussant: Joseph ESHERICK Odoric WOU, ”Food Shortage and Japanese Grain Extraction Activities in Henan” Discussant: Daqing YANG 2 - 3:30 p.m. 3. Shanghai – Chair: Tatsuo YAMADA Frederic WAKEMAN, “Chinese Doctors in Occupied Shanghai” Discussant: Joshua FOGEL Hirofumi TAKATSUNA, “Shanghai Nostalgia Among Postwar Japanese Repatriates; The Inception of 'Hometown Shanghai'" Discussant: Parks COBLE 3:30 – 4 p.m. Day’s Summary/Photograph of Participants 8:30 p.m. Discussion Focus on sources, bibliography, website Short presentation by Steven PHILLIPS Friday, June 28 9 - 10:30 a.m. 4. Northeast – Chair: Tianshi YANG Xueshi XIE, “The Regime System and Social Grass Root Level Organizations of Puppet Manchuria Kingdom” Discussant: Makoto IOKIBE Susumu TSUKASE, “The Penetration and Influence of Manchukuo Rule in the Society of Northeast China" Discussant: Written comments by Ramon MYERS 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. 5. North China Under Japanese Rule (1) Chair: Ezra VOGEL Hisashi INOUE, “CCP/Eighth Route Army's Policies Towards POWs and the Japanese Anti-War Movement in China” Discussant: Mark SELDEN Jianping ZHUANG, “A General Outline on Japan's Bureaucracy of Labor Exploitation in Qingdao” Discussant: William KIRBY 2 - 3:30 p.m. 6. North China Under Japanese Rule (2) Chair: Tatsuo YAMADA Zhifen JU, “Japan's Atrocities of Conscripting and Abusing North China Draftees After the Outbreak of the Pacific War” Discussant: Mitsuyoshi HIMETA Toru KUBO, “The Kôa-in (The Asia Development Board) and its Research on China" Discussant: Mark PEATTIE Friday, June 28 continued 3:30 - 4 p.m. Day’s Summary Saturday, June 29 9 - 10:30 a.m. 7. Central China – Chair: Stephen MACKINNON Timothy BROOK, “The Formation of an Occupation State in Central China, 1937-45” Discussant: Tianshi YANG Yuhichi KANEMARU, “Cultural Policies and Rule of Occupied China” Discussant: Keith SCHOPPA 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. 8. South China – Chair: Kenichiroh HIRANO Peter MERKER, ”Jiangxi” Discussant: Arthur WALDRON Diana LARY, “The Regional Impact of War; Guangxi, 1937-45” Discussant: Paul COHEN 2 - 3:30 p.m. 9. Mongolia and Taiwan Minghuang SHAO, “Observations of Several Dimensions of Wartime Taiwan” Discussant: Lyman MILLER Minghui LU, “The Japanese Occupation of Inner Mongolia and the Establishment of the Puppet United Autonomous Government” Discussant: Jonathan SPENCE 4 - 5 p.m. Wrap Up – MacKinnon/Lary/Vogel/Yang/Yamada