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Kenneth Swope Vita

Publication
A Dragon's Head and A Serpent's Tail: Ming China and the First Great East Asian War, 1592-1598 (11/20/2009)

Grant
American Research in the Humanities in China (5/15/2009)

Publication
War and Remembrance: Yang Hao and the Siege of Ulsan of 1598 (12/15/2008)

Publication
When the Lips Die, the Teeth Freeze: Reasons for the Ming Intervention (11/15/2008)

Publication
Clearing the Fields and Strengthening the Walls: Defending Small Cities in Late Ming China (9/28/2008)

Publication
Bestowing the Double-Edged Sword: Emperor Wanli as Supreme Military Commander (9/15/2008)

Grant
2008 West Point Summer Seminar in Military History (1/15/2008)

Publication
Protecting the Dragon's Teeth: Reasons for Ming China's Intervention (6/15/2007)

Publication
Beyond Turtleboats: Siege Accounts from Toyotomi Hideyoshi's Second Invasion of Korea, 1597-1598 (10/15/2006)

Grant
A Dragon's Head and a Serpent's Tail: Ming China and the First Greater East Asian War, 1592-89 (1/15/2006)

Kenneth Swope

Assistant Professor of History

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Department of History
Ball State University
Muncie, IN 47306

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Teaching and Research Specialties
Late Imperial China, East Asian Diplomatic, Comparative Military History

Biography

Kenneth Swope joined the Department of History in August 2004. He currently serves as the Director of Graduate Programs (M.A.) in History. Swope has served as a textbook reviewer for Houghton Mifflin, and as a reviewer for the Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools Distinguished Thesis Competition. He is a board member of the Society for Ming Studies and the Chinese Military History Society. He has reviewed for The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, the Journal of Economic and Social History of the Orient, and History: Review of New Books. In June 2008, he was an invited participant in the prestigious Military History Seminar at the United States Military Academy at West Point.