9:30–11:30 a.m.

Chinese Historians in the United States Session 3
Defining Change and Continuity: Building State and Society in Twentieth-Century China, 1905–45
Marriott, Lobby Level, Room 8217

Chair:	Di Wang, Texas A & M University
Papers:	From Warriors to Farmers: The Changing Social Status of Manchu and Mongol Bannermen in Heilongjiang Frontier Society, 1905–31 Patrick Fuliang Shan, Grand Valley State University State Building and Saving Lives: Military and Civilian Health Services during the Sino-Japanese War, 1937–45 Ka-che Yip, University of Maryland at Baltimore County Building State Structure: Guomindang Institutional Rationalization during the Sino-Japanese War, 1937–45 Morris L. Bian, Auburn University
Comment:	Robert P. Gardella, U. S. Merchant Marine Academy