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Commonwealth Club of California PodcastThe Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia’s Struggle Against Autocracy and BeijingWhy are activists in Thailand, Hong Kong and Burma willing to court danger to help one another?
Historian Jeffrey Wasserstrom met dozens of dissidents, including Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal, known for his protests against compulsory Thai military service; Agnes Chow, co-founder of a political party now banned in Hong Kong; and Ye Myint Win (aka Nickey Diamond), who fled to Germany from Burma in the early 2020s, fearing reprisal from the junta for his human rights work.
Activists like these three express solidarity with one another online and in the streets, and sometimes refer to themselves as...
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Barbarians at the GateBarbarians Remix: The Year of the Boxers with historian Jeffrey WasserstromThis episode was originally released on May 18, 2020. Jeremiah and David are joined by Jeffrey Wasserstrom, historian of modern China and a longtime interpreter of the country’s shifting place in the world. Originally recorded in 2020, this conversation revisits the Boxer War of 1900—not through the usual lens of siege and rescue, but by examining what followed: the punitive occupation, the fractured international memory, and the long shadow cast by a global media frenzy.Wasserstrom’s reading reframes the Boxers not as an isolated burst of anti-foreign violence, but as part o...
2025-07-2922 min
The US-China PodcastWhat Happened to Hong Kong’s Protest Movement? With the fifth anniversary of the last big Hong Kong marches behind us and the first anniversary of the National Security Law’s imposition on the horizon, Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Emily Feng assess the city’s recent past and significantly changed realities. What is the legacy of the protest surge of 2019? What is most and least surprising about how Hong Kong has been transformed in this decade? How can we place the Hong Kong story into national narratives about the way the PRC has been moving under Xi Jinping? How can we connect the Hong Kong events to t...
2025-05-291h 21
New Books in Chinese StudiesJeffrey Wasserstrom, "Vigil: The Struggle for Hong Kong" (Brixton Ink, 2025)Given what has happened since – from a global pandemic to wars in Europe, Africa and the Middle East – events in Hong Kong in 2019-20 can seem remote when seen from today’s perspective. But the momentous scale and significance of the protests there during those years, and the ensuing crackdown and increasing restrictions on Hong Kong’s distinctive politics and society, continue to resonate, not least for the tens of thousands who have left the territory recently. Jeffrey Wasserstrom’s Vigil – a brilliant encapsulation of the mood in Hong Kong in 2019 and its pre-history and precedents – was published soon after the protests...
2025-05-2442 min
New Books in World AffairsJeffrey Wasserstrom, "Vigil: The Struggle for Hong Kong" (Brixton Ink, 2025)Given what has happened since – from a global pandemic to wars in Europe, Africa and the Middle East – events in Hong Kong in 2019-20 can seem remote when seen from today’s perspective. But the momentous scale and significance of the protests there during those years, and the ensuing crackdown and increasing restrictions on Hong Kong’s distinctive politics and society, continue to resonate, not least for the tens of thousands who have left the territory recently. Jeffrey Wasserstrom’s Vigil – a brilliant encapsulation of the mood in Hong Kong in 2019 and its pre-history and precedents – was published soon after the protests...
2025-05-2444 min
New Books in East Asian StudiesJeffrey Wasserstrom, "Vigil: The Struggle for Hong Kong" (Brixton Ink, 2025)Given what has happened since – from a global pandemic to wars in Europe, Africa and the Middle East – events in Hong Kong in 2019-20 can seem remote when seen from today’s perspective. But the momentous scale and significance of the protests there during those years, and the ensuing crackdown and increasing restrictions on Hong Kong’s distinctive politics and society, continue to resonate, not least for the tens of thousands who have left the territory recently. Jeffrey Wasserstrom’s Vigil – a brilliant encapsulation of the mood in Hong Kong in 2019 and its pre-history and precedents – was published soon after the protests...
2025-05-2444 min
New Books in Political ScienceJeffrey Wasserstrom, "Vigil: The Struggle for Hong Kong" (Brixton Ink, 2025)Given what has happened since – from a global pandemic to wars in Europe, Africa and the Middle East – events in Hong Kong in 2019-20 can seem remote when seen from today’s perspective. But the momentous scale and significance of the protests there during those years, and the ensuing crackdown and increasing restrictions on Hong Kong’s distinctive politics and society, continue to resonate, not least for the tens of thousands who have left the territory recently. Jeffrey Wasserstrom’s Vigil – a brilliant encapsulation of the mood in Hong Kong in 2019 and its pre-history and precedents – was published soon after the protests...
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None Of The AboveEpisode 7: America's China Gamble China’s violent Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989 marked a turning point in US-China relations. After two decades of slowly but steadily nurturing friendly relations, the United States would choose to develop economic ties without insisting on democratic reforms. The prevailing hope was that China’s economic growth would inevitably lead to political change. That hope, however, was never fully realized. Today, China is America’s largest trading partner and yet its biggest geopolitical rival. In this episode of None Of The Above’s ‘90s Rewind miniseries, the Institute for Global Affairs’ Mark Hannah explores the origins of 21...
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Lex Fridman Podcast#466 – Jeffrey Wasserstrom: China, Xi Jinping, Trade War, Taiwan, Hong Kong, MaoJeffrey Wasserstrom is a historian of modern China.
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China In ContextWriting Shanghai, Writing China — A Tribute to Lynn PanIn this episode we look at the life and work of Lynn Pan, one of the most imaginative of writers in English about modern China and particularly Shanghai, who died last year, and was commemorated at a special event at the Hong Kong International Literary Festival earlier this month. Her books, including In Search of Old Shanghai, The New Chinese Revolution, Sons of the Yellow Emperor, Shanghai Style and When True Love Came to China, were accessible, often witty, and always deeply researched. Duncan Hewitt discusses her legacy with Paul French, author of Midnight in Peking and Her...
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Barbarians at the GateHistorical Battles: Rewriting China's Past to Shape the Future"We can overestimate and underestimate how much things changed when Xi Jinping took power, but the intensity of concern over historical narratives has definitely grown under his leadership." - Jeffrey WasserstromIn this episode, Jeremiah and David are joined by Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Chancellor's Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine, and a leading expert in modern Chinese history. We discuss the legacies of the Hong Kong protests, the rise of Xi Jinping's historical narrative control, and how academic engagement with China is evolving amidst growing geopolitical tensions....
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Geschichten aus der GeschichteGAG423: Der Sohn Gottes Hong Xiuquan und sein Aufstand gegen das imperiale ChinaEine Geschichte über den Taiping Bürgerkrieg im China des 19. Jahrhunderts
Wir springen in dieser Folge ins 19. Jahrhundert. Schauplatz ist der Süden Chinas, wo ein Dorflehrer nach Visionen zu dem Schluss kommt, er sei der jüngere Bruder Jesu. Damit löst er eine Entwicklung aus, die schließlich in einen Bürgerkrieg mündet, der über zwanzig Millionen Menschen das Leben kostet.
Literatur
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom. The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China. Oxford University Press, 2016.
Jonathan Spence. God’s Chinese Son. W.W. Norton, 1997.
Stephen R. Platt. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, a...
2023-11-011h 05
Best of the SpectatorChinese Whispers: did some good come from the Qing’s dying century?In the 1800s, Qing China’s final century, European powers were expanding eastwards. The industrialised West, with its gunboats and muskets, and the soft power of Christianity, pushed around the dynasty’s last rulers.
But was this period more than just a time of national suffering and humiliation for China? The British Museum's ongoing exhibit, China’s hidden century, tells the story of Qing China’s final decades. The more than 300 exhibits tell a story not only of decline, but of a complicated exchange between China and the West about culture, fashion, politics and ideas.
Cindy reviewed...
2023-07-2436 min
Chinese WhispersDid some good come from the Qing’s dying century?In the 1800s, Qing China’s final century, European powers were expanding eastwards. The industrialised West, with its gunboats and muskets, and the soft power of Christianity, pushed around the dynasty’s last rulers.But was this period more than just a time of national suffering and humiliation for China? The British Museum's ongoing exhibit, China’s hidden century, tells the story of Qing China’s final decades. The more than 300 exhibits tell a story not only of decline, but of a complicated exchange between China and the West about culture, fashion, politics and ideas.I reviewed...
2023-07-2436 min
Tocqueville 21China and Hong Kong, Society and Politics with Jeffrey WasserstromJeffrey Wasserstrom joins the podcast to discuss Chinese political culture, the nature of Hong Kong, and the evolving perceptions of the regime.
Jeffrey Wasserstrom is is Chancellor's Professor of History at UC Irvine.
Intro and Outro credits: “Waltz (Tschikovsky Op. 40)” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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2023-06-2551 min
World Review from the New StatesmanHow Chinese protesters get around censorship, with Jeffrey WasserstromFollowing the extraordinary wave of protests across China against the government's pandemic controls, Katie Stallard speaks to Jeffrey Wasserstrom, a historian of modern China at the University of California, Irvine, and the author of multiple books including Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink. They discuss the tactics protesters have drawn from past demonstrations in Hong Kong and mainland China, the limits of the country’s censorship apparatus, and the significance of the blank sheets of paper that have become a symbol of these demonstrations. Plus, what the death of the former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin means for the future of t...
2022-12-0522 min
人文來風EP70｜弦內弦外：搖滾吧！全世界的無產階級－陳相因本集比較蘇聯與中國大陸的早期搖滾詩歌，說明兩個不同文化卻意識形態相近的共產國家如何展現出類似的文藝產物。本集藉由對照蘇聯和中國早期搖滾的先行者─崔維克多(Виктор Цой )和崔健的作品，勾勒80年代的中、蘇共產主義分別在改革開放與重建時期同樣面對資本主義浪潮時，如何體現和開展年輕無產階級者的矛盾、空虛和失敗感。
【大綱標記】
01:29 臺灣與中國搖滾詩歌的差異性
02:54 共產主義與資本主義的對立與矛盾
04:36 崔維克多及其作品《有的是時間，但沒錢！》
09:33 崔健及其作品《一無所有》
14:39 結論
【講者介紹】
陳相因
中央研究院中國文哲研究所副研究員
專長領域為中國現當代文學、俄羅斯與蘇聯文學、比較文學及電影研究
【引用書目】
1.孫伊：《搖滾中國》（台北：秀威，2012）。
2.Brace, Tim, and Paul Friedlander. 1992. “Rock and Roll on the New Long March: Popular Music, Cultural Identity, and Political Opposition in the People’s Republic of China.” Rockin’ the Boat: Mass Music and Mass Movements, edited by Reebee Garofalo, 115–128. Boston: South End Press.
3.Wasserstrom, Jeffrey, and Elizabeth Perry, eds. 1992. Popular Protest and Political Culture in Modern China. London and New York: Routledge.
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Wu Fei's Music DailyThe road may be longHappy Friday everyone,Thank you for subscribing to Wu Fei’s Music Daily! This is the 253rd episode — The road may be long. This piece was created and recorded yesterday on multitrack vocals and guzheng.On a separate note, I'd like to share an upcoming virtual event with you. I am doing an event with Wall street Journal reporter and fiction writer Te-ping Chen on February 2nd, 9:30-10:30am (PST) hosted by UCI Illumination. This event will be moderated by historian, Prof. Jeffrey Wasserstrom of UCI. There will be a discussion, music and book...
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Listen to Top Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsVigil: Hong Kong on the Brink by Jeffrey WasserstromPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/397535to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink
Author: Jeffrey Wasserstrom
Narrator: P.J. Ochlan
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 2 hours 37 minutes
Release date: February 11, 2020
Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics
Publisher's Summary:
What can the massive protests that have roiled Hong Kong and the harsh repressive moves made against activists tell us about where this special metropolis is heading? And about how a resurgent China under strongman rule is challenging and reshaping the international order? Jeffrey Wasserstrom draws on his many visits to the city and his background as a specialist in...
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Paroles d'histoire61. La Chine de 1842 à 1949 (programme de khâgne 2020), avec Pierre GrosserL’invité : Pierre Grosser, professeur agrégé à Sciences Po, chercheur en histoire des relations internationales
Le thème : La Chine entre 1842 et 1949, nouvelle question au programme des ENS (Ulm et Lyon)
Lettre de cadrage du programme (site de l’ENS de Lyon)
La discussion :
Des bornes chronologiques assez classiques pour ce programme (1′)
Une lettre de cadrage des ENS qui insiste sur les interventions impérialistes et la dimension exogène de l’histoire chinoise (2’15)
L’idée d’une Chine qui n’est pas seulement dans la « réaction » vis-à-vis de l’étranger (3’10)
Les catastrop...
2019-06-2128 min
1919: The Year of the Crack-UpA Hundred Years of Student Protests in China, with Jeffrey WasserstromChina expert Jeffrey Wasserstrom discusses the rich history of Chinese student protests. From the May Fourth movement in 1919 to Tiananmen Square in 1989 to today's mass demonstrations in Hong Kong, what are the threads that tie these moments together? Don't miss this fascinating talk, which also touches on Woodrow Wilson, the Russian Revolution, and a young Mao Zedong.
2019-06-1729 min
Carnegie Council PodcastsThe Crack-Up: A Hundred Years of Student Protests in China, with Jeffrey WasserstromIn the latest "Crack-Up" podcast, China expert Jeffrey Wasserstrom discusses the rich history of Chinese student protests. From the May Fourth movement in 1919 to Tiananmen Square in 1989 to today's mass demonstrations in Hong Kong, what are the threads that tie these moments together? Don't miss this fascinating talk, which also touches on Woodrow Wilson, the Russian Revolution, and a young Mao Zedong.
2019-06-1729 min
National Committee on U.S.-China RelationsDenise Y. Ho, Louisa Lim, and Jeffrey Wasserstrom: Hong Kong's Shifting Status, 1997-2019As the twentieth century drew to a close, Hong Kong, recently transformed into a Special Administrative Region of the PRC, seemed a city totally unlike any of its neighbors. Many observers were surprised by how light a touch Beijing seemed to be exerting in the wake of the 1997 handover, and the striking contrast between what could be said, done, and published in Hong Kong, compared to mainland metropolitan cities such as Shanghai and Shenzhen. Since the 20th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to Chinese rule in 2017, controls have tightened dramatically amid fears of tighter political censorship and enhanced self-censorship. However...
2019-05-1437 min
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesTiananmen at 302019 marks 30 years since the events at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, in June 1989. The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University discusses the impact of the Tiananmen massacre 30 years later.
Speakers:
Hao Jian, Professor, Beijing Film Academy
Louisa Lim, Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne; Author, The People’s Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited
Wang Dan, Founder and Executive Director of Dialogue China
Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Chancellor’s Professor of History, University of California Irvine
Moderator:
Rowena Xiaoqing He, Current Member, Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton; Author, Tiananmen Exiles: Voices of the Struggle for Democracy in China
Read and download the tran...
2019-05-102h 03
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesTiananmen at 302019 marks 30 years since the events at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, in June 1989. The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University discusses the impact of the Tiananmen massacre 30 years later.
Speakers:
Hao Jian, Professor, Beijing Film Academy
Louisa Lim, Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne; Author, The People’s Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited
Wang Dan, Founder and Executive Director of Dialogue China
Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Chancellor’s Professor of History, University of California Irvine
Moderator:
Rowena Xiaoqing He, Current Member, Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton; Author, Tiananmen Exiles: Voices of the Struggle for Democracy in China
Read and download the tran...
2019-05-102h 03New Books in National SecurityMaura Elizabeth Cunningham and Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, “China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know” (Oxford UP, 2018)“Knowing about China,” Maura Elizabeth Cunningham and Jeffrey Wasserstrom note in the preface to China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2018), is today “an essential part of being an engaged citizen” (p. xvii), and this is a difficult statement to disagree with. Yet as the authors also acknowledge, explaining ‘what everyone needs to know’ about the country is a daunting proposition, particularly at this highly unpredictable point in world history.
Yet this fully revised edition of China in the 21st Century tackles the major issues head-on, interweaving context from China’s recent and more...
2018-06-291h 01New Books in Chinese StudiesMaura Elizabeth Cunningham and Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, “China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know” (Oxford UP, 2018)“Knowing about China,” Maura Elizabeth Cunningham and Jeffrey Wasserstrom note in the preface to China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2018), is today “an essential part of being an engaged citizen” (p. xvii), and this is a difficult statement to disagree with. Yet... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/chinese-studies
2018-06-291h 01Carnegie Council Podcasts#MeToo in China, with Maura Cunningham and Jeffrey WasserstromChina experts Cunningham and Wasserstrom start by talking about the small, mainly campus-based #MeToo campaign in China--to avoid internet censorship young people often use emojis of a rice bowl and a rabbit, which sound the same as "me too" in Chinese, but now the censors have figured that out--and go on to consider more general issues of censorship, repression, and the ups and downs of gender equality in China.
2018-04-0426 min
National Committee on U.S.-China RelationsJeff Wasserstrom and Maura Cunningham: Has Xi Jinping Changed the Course of Modern Chinese History?The recent proposal to remove presidential term limits in China has prompted questions about the country’s future development, and the historical legacy of China’s past authoritarian leaders seems relevant once again. How should we understand the current direction of China’s political culture? In a newly revised and updated book, modern China historians Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Maura Cunningham review the key historical trends that have shaped China’s development in the 21st century. From Confucian thought to U.S.-China relations under Trump and Xi, China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know, third edition, provides essentia...
2018-04-031h 13
National Committee on U.S.-China RelationsJeffrey Wasserstrom and Maura Cunningham on Venturing Outside of AcademiaIn this episode of the National Committee's PROFILES podcast series, Vice President Jan Berris interviews Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham, modern China historians and authors of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know. Drs. Wasserstrom and Cunningham talk about how they have taken an unconventional route by not confining their work to the academic realm. Dr. Wasserstrom is a former member of the Board of Directors of the National Committee, and Dr. Cunningham previously served as a program officer, working primarily on its Public Intellectuals Program.
2018-04-0324 min
National Committee on U.S.-China RelationsThe Era of Xi and Trump: Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Jiayang FanModern China historian Jeffrey Wasserstrom and the New Yorker magazine’s Jiayang Fan joined the National Committee for a discussion of how international ambitions, a contentious historical legacy, and official doctrine fuel common misconceptions about U.S.-China relations on December 12, 2016. Despite more than 300,000 Chinese students currently studying in the United States, increasingly integrated economic relations, booming cross-border tourism, and more high-level dialogues than ever before, misconceptions and suspicion between the United States and China are still widespread. The recent U.S. election saw significant rhetorical frustration directed at China, and it remains to be seen which, if any, hardline ca...
2018-03-071h 08
National Committee on U.S.-China RelationsWatching the Era of Xi and Trump Part II: Jeffrey WasserstromNoted China expert Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Chancellor’s Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine, discusses relations between China and America in the dawning era of Xi and Trump, in an interview with National Committee on U.S.-China Relations Senior Director for Education Programs, Margot Landman, on December 12, 2016.
Jeffrey Wasserstrom is Chancellor's Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine, where he also holds appointments in law and literary journalism. His most recent books are, as editor, The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China, and, as author, Eight Juxtapositions: China through Imperfect Analogies from Mark Twain to Ma...
2018-03-0718 min
National Committee on U.S.-China RelationsChina’s Latest Twists and Turns: Jeffrey WasserstromNoted cultural historian and author (including of the second edition of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know, due out in June) Jeffrey Wasserstrom discusses challenges facing contemporary Chinese society, including corruption, energy, politics and the environment, and ways they are being addressed by China's people and leadership. Dr. Wasserstrom, Chancellor's Professor of History and chair of the department of history at the University of California, Irvine and editor of the Journal of Asian Studies, is interviewed by National Committee Senior Director for Education Programs Margot Landman.
2018-03-0226 min
Listen to New Releases Audiobooks in Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & PanelsChina:The Next Super Power (2010): Los Angeles Times Festival of Books AudiobookPlease visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/12 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: China:The Next Super Power (2010): Los Angeles Times Festival of Books Subtitle: Panel 2092 Author: Richard Baum, Zachary Karabell, Jeffrey Wasserstrom Narrator: Scott Kraft Format: Original Recording Length: 57 mins Language: English Release date: 8/27/2010 Publisher: Los Angeles Times Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & Panels Publisher's Summary: The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books began in 1996 with a simple goal: to bring together the people who create books with the people who love to read them. The festival was an immediate success and has become the largest...
2018-02-2505 min
Stream Popular Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsAsia's Reckoning: China, Japan, and the Fate of U.S. Power in the Pacific Century by Richard McgregorPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/301674 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Asia's Reckoning: China, Japan, and the Fate of U.S. Power in the Pacific Century Author: Richard Mcgregor Narrator: Steve West Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 15 minutes Release date: September 5, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A Financial Times Best Book of 2017 “A shrewd and knowing book.” —Robert D. Kaplan, The Wall Street Journal “A compelling and impressive read.” —The Economist “Skillfully crafted and well-argued.” —Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Financial Times “An excellent modern history. . . . provides the context needed to make sense of...
2017-09-0510 min
Stream Popular Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsAsia's Reckoning: China, Japan, and the Fate of U.S. Power in the Pacific Century by Richard McgregorPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/301674to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Asia's Reckoning: China, Japan, and the Fate of U.S. Power in the Pacific Century
Author: Richard Mcgregor
Narrator: Steve West
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 16 hours 15 minutes
Release date: September 5, 2017
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4
Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2
Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics
Publisher's Summary:
A Financial Times Best Book of 2017 “A shrewd and knowing book.” —Robert D. Kaplan, The Wall Street Journal “A compelling and impressive read.” —The Economist “Skillfully crafted and well-argued.” —Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Financial Times “An excellent modern history. . . . provides the context needed to make sense of the reg...
2017-09-054h 15
CogitAsiaContext for the Trump-Xi SummitIn this episode, we look at U.S.-China relations ahead of the first summit between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping. Longtime China hand Dr. Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Chancellor’s Professor of History at the University of California-Irvine, joins the podcast to provide a panorama on contemporary developments in China, U.S.-China relations, and China’s ties with its neighbors in Asia.
Hosted by Will Colson. Audio edited by Ribka Gemilangsari. Written and produced by Jeffrey Bean.
To learn more about the Trump-Xi meeting, read analysis by the CSIS Asia Program Directors here.
2017-04-0440 min
Sinica PodcastTalking ’bout my generation: Alec Ash and Chinese millennialsAlec Ash is a young British writer who lives in Beijing, who has covered “left behind” children in Chinese villages, the “toughest high school exam in the world” and internet live streaming among many other subjects. He is the author of Wish Lanterns, which the Financial Times called a “closely observed study of China’s millennials.” The book tells the stories of six Chinese people born between 1985 and 1990. The characters have very different backgrounds and aspirations, including a rock musician named Lucifer, an internet addict named Snail, and a patriotic Party official’s daughter. In this episode of the Sinica Podcast, Alec discuss...
2017-01-0546 min
Summer 2016 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfThe History of China's FutureContributor(s): Isabel Hilton, Dr Leigh Jenco, Professor Jeffrey Wasserstrom | In China, history isn't just about the past - it shapes the future. With the rise of China over the past four decades, people increasingly look to China's turbulent modern history for clues about what the world will be like in the 21st century. The panelists will discuss how the newly published book, The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China, addresses such questions through an examination of the broad sweep of modern Chinese history, from the origins of modern China right up through the dramatic events of the past few...
2016-05-261h 33Summer 2016 | Public lectures and events | VideoThe History of China's FutureContributor(s): Isabel Hilton, Dr Leigh Jenco, Professor Jeffrey Wasserstrom | In China, history isn't just about the past - it shapes the future. With the rise of China over the past four decades, people increasingly look to China's turbulent modern history for clues about what the world will be like in the 21st century. The panelists will discuss how the newly published book, The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China, addresses such questions through an examination of the broad sweep of modern Chinese history, from the origins of modern China right up through the dramatic events of the past few...
2016-05-261h 33New Books in Chinese StudiesJeffrey Wasserstrom, “Eight Juxtapositions: China through Imperfect Analogies from Mark Twain to Manchukuo” (e-Penguin, 2016)Jeffrey Wasserstrom‘s wonderful new book in the “China Specials” series at Penguin opens with two main premises. First, it is more important than ever to have “illuminating lenses through which to view the People’s Republic of China,” especially ones that help us make sense of the ways that the PRC... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/chinese-studies
2016-04-041h 05
ChinaLab PodcastChina through Imperfect Analogies with Jeffrey WasserstromJeffrey Wasserstrom spoke with me about his newest book, Eight Juxtapositions: China through imperfect analogies from Mark Twain to Manchukuo, which illuminates nuances and deconstructs the facile comparisons that dominate so much thinking and writing about China today.
2016-03-0940 min
Podcasts for the UCLA Burkle Center for International RelationsChina: Age of AmbitionKeynote and panel discussion - Evan Osnos, The New Yorker; Alex Wang, UCLA; Yunxiang Yan, UCLA; and Jeffrey Wasserstrom, UCI
2014-10-131h 18
Popup ChineseSinica - Live at the Association for Asian StudiesThis week Sinica presents a special live recording from the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) which convened last week in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Listen to the show right through your browser using our online player, or download it to share or save as a standalone mp3 file.Regular listeners please note that the audio quality here isn't up to our usual standards: we didn't have professional audio equipment on hand during the meeting, but tried our best given the opportunity to trap both Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Pankaj Mishra in live conversation...
2014-04-0446 min
Notable Lectures and Performances at Colorado CollegeGlobal Shanghai in 2010: Historical and Comparative Perspectives on a Futuristic Chinese CityJeffrey Wasserstrom, an expert on Shanghai history, is author of several works on China, including "Global Shanghai, 1850 – 2010: A History in Fragments" (2009) and "China's Brave New World and Other Tales for Global Times" (2007). His newest work, "China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know," will be published by Oxford University Press in April.
Recorded March 31, 2010.
2010-04-071h 17Notable Lectures and Performances at Colorado CollegeGlobal Shanghai in 2010: Historical and Comparative Perspectives on a Futuristic Chinese CityJeffrey Wasserstrom, an expert on Shanghai history, is author of several works on China, including "Global Shanghai, 1850 – 2010: A History in Fragments" (2009) and "China's Brave New World and Other Tales for Global Times" (2007). His newest work, "China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know," will be published by Oxford University Press in April.
Recorded March 31, 2010.
2010-04-071h 17
RTHK：The MAN HK International Literary Festival 2009The MAN HK International Literary Festival 2009 - Interview with Jeffrey WasserstromJeffrey Wasserstrom who writes regularly for both academic institutions and general interest publications such as Newsweek and The Nation, was trained in Chinese studies and history at the University of California, Santa Cruz, the University of London,...
2009-03-2627 minRTHK：The MAN HK International Literary Festival 2009The MAN HK International Literary Festival 2009 - Interview with Jeffrey WasserstromJeffrey Wasserstrom who writes regularly for both academic institutions and general interest publications such as Newsweek and The Nation, was trained in Chinese studies and history at the University of California, Santa Cruz, the University of London,...
2009-03-2600 min
The World Beyond the Headlines from the University of Chicago"China's Brave New World and Other Tales for Global Times"A talk by Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. If Chairman Mao came back to life today, what would he think of Nanjing's bookstore, the "Librairie Avant-Garde", where it is easier to find primers on Michel Foucault's philosophy than copies of the Little Red Book? What does it really mean to order a latte at Starbucks in Beijing? Is it possible that Aldous Huxley wrote a novel even more useful than Orwell's 1984 for making sense of post-Tiananmen China...or post-9/11 America? In these often playful, always enlightening "tales", Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom poses these and other...
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CHIASMOS: The University of Chicago International and Area Studies Multimedia Outreach Source [video]"China's Brave New World and Other Tales for Global Times" (video)A talk by Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. If Chairman Mao came back to life today, what would he think of Nanjing's bookstore, the "Librairie Avant-Garde", where it is easier to find primers on Michel Foucault's philosophy than copies of the Little Red Book? What does it really mean to order a latte at Starbucks in Beijing? Is it possible that Aldous Huxley wrote a novel even more useful than Orwell's 1984 for making sense of post-Tiananmen China...or post-9/11 America? In these often playful, always enlightening "tales", Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom poses these and other...
2007-11-161h 08CHIASMOS: The University of Chicago International and Area Studies Multimedia Outreach Source [audio]"China's Brave New World and Other Tales for Global Times"A talk by Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. If Chairman Mao came back to life today, what would he think of Nanjing's bookstore, the "Librairie Avant-Garde", where it is easier to find primers on Michel Foucault's philosophy than copies of the Little Red Book? What does it really mean to order a latte at Starbucks in Beijing? Is it possible that Aldous Huxley wrote a novel even more useful than Orwell's 1984 for making sense of post-Tiananmen China...or post-9/11 America? In these often playful, always enlightening "tales", Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom poses these and other...
2007-11-161h 08