Dr. Harold Tanner is Professor of History, Fellow of the Military History Center, and Chair of the Department of History at the University of North Texas. He received his M.A. degree from the School of Oriental and African Studies in 1985 and his Ph.D. in modern Chinese history from Columbia University in 1994. A specialist in twentieth-century and contemporary China and Chinese military history, Dr. Tanner is the author of The Battle for Manchuria and the Fate of China: Siping, 1946 (Indiana University Press, 2012) and China: A History (Hackett Publishing, 2009). His most recent work, Where Chiang Kai-shek Lost China: The Liao-Shen Campaign, 1948 (Indiana University Press, 2015) focuses on the interaction of Chinese Communist and Nationalist forces on the ground in Manchuria and U.S. diplomacy in Washington and Nanjing in one of the key military engagements of the Chinese Civil War (1945-1959). Dr. Tanner has done presentations on Chinese political and military history and strategic culture to audiences at the Hoover Institution, the Society for Military History, the Chinese Military History Society, the United States Army’s annual People’s Liberation Army Conference, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and the U.S. Seventh Fleet Naval Reserve.