Historian Jennifer Yip (葉郁琳）of the National University of Singapore will offer a talk on her latest book, just published by Cambridge University Press: Grains of Conflict: The Struggle for Food in China’s Total War, 1937–1945.

Professor Yip is a historian of war, strategy, and the socio-economic effects of war mobilization, with a focus on Republican China. She holds a both Ph.D. and a Master’s from the University of Pennsylvania as well as a Master of Philosophy from the University of Cambridge. She is now Assistant Professor of History at the National University of Singapore.

Co-sponsored by the Department of History, Center for East Asian Studies, War in Society and Culture Program, and Harvey Goldberg Center