On the Huffington Post, Jeffrey Wasserstrom responds to Thomas Friedman’s recent column in the New York Times about the power of nationalist bloggers in China: One problem with Friedman’s column is that it creates...
Read MoreFor the Huffington Post, Jeffrey Wasserstrom reviews David Shambaugh’s China’s Communist Party: Atrophy and Adaptation in light of commemorations of the fall of the Berlin Wall: Written by a high-profile political...
Read MoreOn China Beat, Jeffrey Wasserstrom ponders the connections between the World Expo, to be held in Shanghai in 2010, and Disney, which is slated to open its first mainland park in the city in a few years: As the Shanghai Disney...
Read MoreFrom the Nation: In April and May of 1989, people around the world were inspired by the protests in Tiananmen Square, then horrified when the June 4 massacre turned Beijing streets into urban killing fields. China has changed...
Read MoreOn the Huffington Post, Jeffrey Wasserstrom of China Beat offers his advice to President Obama: No, there hasn’t been any indication that the new President will be heading to China anytime soon, though it does seem likely...
Read MoreFrom Newsweek: China is so big, diverse and protean that no single photograph can sum it up. And yet iconic images often come to represent the country at a particular point in time, the way...
Read MoreFrom The Dissent Magazine: China’s economy is booming like never before and its social fabric is being ripped apart and knit together in novel ways. State-of-the-art sports stadiums, a renovated airport terminal, and a new financial district have been built or are under construction in pre-Olympic Beijing, where there’s even been talk of seeding rain […]
Read MoreOn openDemocracy, Jeffrey N Wasserstrom writes about boycotts in Chinese history and more recently: In the perspective both of China’s 20th-century history and its last year, the spreading language of boycott offers two...
Read MoreJeffrey N Wasserstrom is a professor of history at the University of California, Irvine. He writes on the OpenDemocracy.net: It is three weeks since the nineteenth anniversary of the massacre of 4 June 1989 in Beijing,...
Read MoreFrom The Far Eastern Economic Review: It was springtime in the eighth year of a young century and the Olympics would begin soon in an old capital. No medals would be awarded until the summer, but the ’08 Games were already...
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