Jeffrey N Wasserstrom

Jeffrey N Wasserstrom is a professor of history at the University of California, Irvine. He writes for a wide range of academic and other periodicals.

China's anniversary tempest

What happens in the People's Republic of China (PRC) often seems on the surface to confirm just what students of the country have been expecting - yet with

By Jeffrey N Wasserstrom

/ 25 Feb 2009

China’s long march to modernisation

When commentators contrast the current situation of the People's Republic of China (PRC) with that of earlier periods in its history, they typically use a straightforward "then

By Jeffrey N Wasserstrom

/ 8 Oct 2008

Tiananmen’s shifting legacy

It is three weeks since the nineteenth anniversary of the massacre of 4 June 1989 in Beijing, forty-nine until the symbolically potent twentieth. The routine in advance of the event,

By Jeffrey N Wasserstrom

/ 26 Jun 2008

China’s political colours: from monochrome to palette

A dramatic but largely unacknowledged shift has recently taken place in how the past is understood in China. One way to think about this Chinese transformation is to see it

By Jeffrey N Wasserstrom

/ 14 May 2008

The perils of forced modernity: China-Tibet, America-Iraq

The Chinese government's plans for the Olympic games did not include a revolt in Tibet. The immediate aftermath of the widespread protests in Tibetan- inhabited areas in mid-March

By Jeffrey N Wasserstrom

/ 27 Mar 2008

One, two or many Chinas?

China is continually part of the global news agenda, a tendency that is certain to accelerate in 2008 as its supercharged economy develops and as Beijing hosts the Olympic games

By Jeffrey N Wasserstrom

/ 19 Feb 2008