In the Nation, Jeffrey Wasserstrom writes about the recent protests against the maglev trains in Shanghai: This is not the first time a novel mode of transportation has triggered a Shanghai protest. A century ago, rickshaw pullers smashed trams that threatened their livelihood. But as a longtime student of Shanghai protests, I can say with […]
Read MoreFrom St. Petersburg Times: It was a bumper year in 2007 for newspaper reports about the flow of people and objects between China and America. We read about tainted toothpaste coming here, Hollywood film crews going there to film the latest Survivor and Yao Ming crisscrossing the Pacific to marry in Shanghai and shoot baskets […]
Read MoreFrom FEER Forum: When historians of the future look back on 2007 from a decade or so down the road, what will they single out as the year’s big China story? They’ll certainly have plenty of options to choose from, since the international press has carried a dizzyingly wide range of China headlines lately, dealing […]
Read MoreIn the United Airlines Hemispheres magazine, Jeffrey Wasserstrom writes about current trends in the Chinese publishing industry: It would be misleading, though, to imply that Chinese reading and publishing habits now simply mirror European and American ones. There are key differences. For example, books based on Web ventures have made a bigger impact in China […]
Read MoreIn The Nation, Jeffery Wasserstrom writes: I’m distressed by the tendency of so many Americans to assume that everything that goes on in China and everything about the treatment it gets is exotic and unusual. Often things that happen in or involve China are normal–even routine–and we can understand them without factoring in esoteric cultural […]
Read MoreFrom The Christian Science Monitor: … Now, while some locals still worry about Beijing’s political shadow, others are more concerned about the economic shadow cast by a different city to the north: Shanghai. They fear the fallout from its rapid rise, regaining the global prominence it had circa 1930. The anxiety over politics has not […]
Read MoreFrom History News Service: In the spring of 1989, giant crowds marched through the streets of China’s cities, demanding an end to official corruption and more political freedom. Inspired by the spectacle of these dramatic demonstrations, foreign observers predicted that the days of the Chinese Communist Party were numbered. And yet, as we mark the […]
Read MoreAnother article from the Christian Science Monitor about changing attitudes in China. In this one, historian Jeffrey Wasserstrom writes about changing perspectives of history in Shanghai: It is obvious that China is a radically different place than it was 20 years ago. But it is equally clear that not everything about the country has been […]
Read MoreIn The Nation, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom reviews three recent books about China: Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China’s Past and Present by Peter Hessler; China Candid: The People on the People’s Republic by Sang Ye; Geremie R. Barm√© and Miriam Lang, eds.; and One China, Many Paths by Chaohua Wang, ed.: What kinds of conclusions […]
Read MoreFrom The Christian Science Monitor (link): China has outgrown ‘The Good Earth’ and so should the rest of us. Three-quarters of a century ago, Americans often viewed China through one of two distorting lenses, both of which can be linked to famous works of popular culture of the 1930s. One was a patronizing lens that […]
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