Mao’s Army Goes to Sea with Dr. Toshi Yoshihara | CSS Speaker Series
Join the Center for Security Studies to discuss the past and future of Chinese naval power. Professor Toshi Yoshihara will discuss his latest book, Mao’s Army Goes to Sea: The Island Campaigns and the Founding of China’s Navy (Georgetown University Press, 2022). The book describes the Chinese navy’s origins and Maoist China’s earliest offshore campaigns. Prof. Yoshihara places contemporary Chinese naval development in historical context and provides insights into China’s future maritime ascent.
Current Georgetown students and SSP alumni may attend this event in person or virtually by RSVPing through Eventbrite. Members of the public may attend virtually by RSVPing via Zoom. Automatic live captioning will be provided for virtual attendees. For requests for other accommodations due to a disability or medical condition, contact securitystudies@georgetown.edu no later than Thursday, January 19. A good faith effort will be made to fulfill all accommodation requests.
About the Speaker
Toshi Yoshihara is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA). He was previously the inaugural John A. van Beuren Chair of Asia-Pacific Studies and a Professor of Strategy at the U.S. Naval War College. His latest book is Mao’s Army Goes to Sea: The Island Campaigns and the Founding of China’s Navy (Georgetown University Press, 2022). He co-authored, with James R. Holmes, the second edition of Red Star over the Pacific: China’s Rise and the Challenge to U.S. Maritime Strategy (Naval Institute Press, 2018). The book has been listed on the Chief of Naval Operations Professional Reading Program, the Indo-Pacific Command Professional Development Reading List, and the Commandant of the Marine Corps Professional Reading Program. The first edition of Red Star over the Pacific was translated in Japan, China, South Korea, Taiwan, and Germany. The Japanese translation of his 2020 CSBA report, Dragon Against the Sun: Chinese Views of Japanese Seapower, won the 8th annual Kokkiken Japan Study Award from the Japan Institute for National Fundamentals in July 2021. In 2016 he was awarded the Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award in recognition of his scholarship on maritime and strategic affairs at the Naval War College. Dr. Yoshihara served as a visiting professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University; the School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California, San Diego; and the Strategy Department of the U.S. Air War College. He currently teaches a graduate course on seapower in the Indo-Pacific at the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University.