Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom

Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom is a professor of history at the University of California, Irvine. He is co-founder and regular contributer to The China Beat: Blogging How the East is Read. His books include China's Brave New World (2007) and the forthcoming Global Shanghai, 1850-2010.

Currently

  • What Would Mao Think of the Games?

    August 22, 2008

    He'd feel bad that the whole Communist era was airbrushed out of the Olympic spectacle. But he'd probably like the swimming.

  • Beyond Beijing: China's Toughest Competition

    August 8, 2008

    How will the Olympics play in the Chinese equivalent of Peoria, among a populace skeptical of the government's intent and eager to tout their own economic clout?

  • China's Inauspicious Year

    May 20, 2008

    China's response to the earthquake and other calamities of 2008 challenges the West to rethink its prejudices.

  • Battle of the Beijing Boycotts

    April 28, 2008

    Two days in May could mark a turning point in the debates over Olympic boycotts.

  • China's Olympic Delusion

    March 19, 2008

    Cracking down once again in Tibet, China seeks to control the script on its flawed human rights record, yet still be regarded as a suitable host for the Olympics. Dream on.

  • NIMBY Comes to China

    January 18, 2008

    In Shanghai, angry, middle-class protesters say a high-speed train will wreck their quality of life. This new form of dissent could be one of the biggest challenges China will face.

2007

  • Getting Real About China

    October 10, 2007

    From product safety to piracy, human rights and the Olympic Games, isn't it time we started being realistic about the way we treat China?

  • Olympic Dreams and Nightmares

    July 26, 2007

    In the best of all possible worlds, 8-8-08 will be the luckiest of dates for China, as the Olympic Games put the country on display. Or it could become a real nightmare.

2006

  • The Chinese Evolution

    August 31, 2006

    Three new books on China invite the West to give up simplistic dreams and nightmares and come to terms with a complex and rapidly evolving authoritarian state.

2002

2001

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