Other 2026 HSTCC Events
- Joint Reception at Vancouver AAS: At the annual AAS meeting in Vancouver in 2026, HSTCC’s major event will be the joint reception we are hosting with the PRC History Group. Please join us for drinks Saturday March 14 at 8-10pm in the Fairmont Waterfront Hotel, Waterfront Ballroom B, Lobby Level.
- HSTCC Meeting Vancouver AAS: There will also be a meeting for members and prospective members Saturday March 14 from 12:45-1:45 in VCC, room 218.
- Annual Membership Meeting on Zoom will occur in the first half of April, date and time TBA. There will be an option to submit short comments that will be included in the discussion, and any votes will occur virtually in the week after the meeting and meeting minutes are circulated so that those who cannot attend can have their voices heard.
2026 Biennial Conference
Taipei Joint Conference at Institute for Modern History, Academia Sinica
Reframing Modern Histories Across the Taiwan Strait: Entanglements, Divergences, and Global Connections
David Luesink, Evan Dawley, and Yidi Wu have been meeting for over a year with Sean Hsiang-lin Lei and his colleagues at the Institute of Modern History at Academia Sinica to plan a joint conference in August. Our call for papers went out to our membership and beyond in August 2025 and we have had a tremendous response from members and new members based in Taiwan and around the world to submit individual paper proposals. We are excited to announce that we have 52 concurrent sessions with almost 250 total participants including established scholars and graduate students from Taiwan, the United States, and around the world. The full program is available on the HSTCC Website and will be distributed by email to members. Housing is being graciously covered by the Institute of Modern History, as are lunches. HSTCC is contributing funds for evening meals while travel is the responsibility of each attendee. In order to accommodate so many excellent papers and panels, IMH suggested and HSTCC board agreed to forgoing the usual keynote speaker. Instead, the only plenary session will be a panel organized by former president Tim Weston about the history and significance of this organization which is worth summarizing here:
Modern Chinese History, the Historical Society for Twentieth Century China, and Twentieth-Century China (journal). The participants in this round table will reflect on the history of the Historical Society for Twentieth-Century China (HSTCC) and its official refereed journal Twentieth-Century China and that of the Institute of Modern History at Academia Sinica. Past, current, and future presidents of HSTCC, the editor of TCC, and representatives from IMH will be on the panel. We hope to engage everyone actively during the Q & A period.
If you have any questions, please contact Ms. Lin Hsiu-chuan: schuan@as.edu.tw or president@hstcconline.org
Twentieth Century China access
Promoting the history of twentieth-century China has never been easy given Cross-strait politics and international logistics. Our organization has long provided members with three physical copies of TCC mailed annually as part of the membership fees. All attendees at our conferences must become members, and IMH graciously agreed with this for the 2026 conference with the exception of graduate students who will be able to attend but will not become members with journal access unless they pay the graduate student membership fee. Membership has more than doubled with all of the new members based in Asia where mailing costs are significantly higher. This situation highlights a logistical issue of international mailing costs which the board recognized several years ago and has been negotiating with Johns Hopkins University Press which publishes TCC, many thanks especially to Secretary-Treasurer Di Luo for leading that negotiation. There is no perfect solution, but we believe we have established one that we hope works for everyone. We have now set up digital access to TCC through a password section of the website for all members, although many of us have access through our institutions on Project Muse. There will be no change in membership fees for digital access. For those who would like to continue to receive a physical copy of TCC, there will be an added cost of $24 for shipping costs in North America, and an additional fee of $15 for addresses outside North America.
2028 Conference News
HSTCC will host the 2028 conference at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. In addition to research presentations, we welcome panels that focus on teaching and pedagogy, as well as poster sessions by undergraduate students. Conference participants are invited to see the China collections at the Duke University Library, visit the Duke Garden, and the American Tobacco Campus.