With the CCP celebrating its 90th birthday tomorrow, Jeffrey Wasserstrom which past leader actually had the most influence in building today’s China: What kinds of historical echoes sound loudest in today’s China? And...
Read MoreFor Time Magazine, Jeffrey Wasserstrom reviews Henry Kissinger’s new book, On China: The value of Kissinger’s book lies in the insider perspective it offers on many of these unexpected developments. There are no...
Read MoreIn another China-related selection at Five Books, Jeffrey Wasserstrom—historian, editor of The Journal of Asian Studies and co-founder of The China Beat—recommends five biographies. The books’ subjects range from women of...
Read MoreFor Miller-McCune, China Beat’s Jeffrey Wasserstrom writes that online calls to protest, such as those we saw recently in Egypt (and China), are similar to those issued since the American Revolution, just using a different...
Read MoreIn Time Magazine, Kate Merkel-Hess and Jeffrey Wasserstrom of China Beat write that China’s cultural legacy is more complex and diverse than government campaigns would lead us to believe: …Visions of imperial China...
Read MoreJeffrey Wasserstrom sums up the best posts about China from around the web in 2010: I have come up with a dozen that seem particularly worth reading — or re-reading if you caught them the first time around — and then...
Read MoreFor Miller-McCune, Jeffrey Wasserstrom sums up China books that came out in 2010: The first thing to note about recent books on post-post-Cold War realities is that some bear the stamp of old ways of thinking. This is to be...
Read MoreIn Time Magazine, historians of America and China write about commonalities they see between China today and America in the mid-19th century: While we’re too aware of how regularly — and speedily — bold forecasts about...
Read MoreOn China Beat, Jeffrey Wasserstrom compares China’s and India’s handling of “Mega-Events,” ie, the Beijing Olympics, the Shanghai World Expo, and the Commonwealth Games in Delhi: What can we learn, about...
Read MoreJeffrey Wasserstrom writes for Yale Global about how Liu Xiaobo’s Nobel Peace Prize impacts China’s soft power efforts: A poster child of successful globalization, China has recently taken some knocks from the...
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