Jeffrey N Wasserstrom

Jeffrey N Wasserstrom is a professor of history at the University of California, Irvine. His most recent book is China's Brave New World - And Other Tales for Global Times (Indiana University Press, 2007), and his next will be Global Shanghai, 1850-2010 (Routledge, forthcoming). He writes for a wide range of academic and general interest periodicals and is a founding member of a new group blog on Chinese issues, The China Beat: Blogging How the East Is Read

Recent articles

The echo of Japan's colonial project in the 1930s resounds in the policies of today's actual and aspiring global powers, says Jeffrey N Wasserstrom.

The waterfall of global commentary about China makes it even more important to appreciate the country's sheer variety and complexities. Here, Jeffrey N Wasserstrom offers a view from the classroom about how these can be conveyed.