Jeffrey Wasserstrom

Jeffrey Wasserstrom, a professor of history at UC, Irvine, is a co-founder of The China Beat (a group blog) and the author, most recently, of the forthcoming China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know.

Currently

  • Tiananmen at Twenty

    May 27, 2009

    China has changed enormously since the 1989 massacre, but the Communist Party continues to deny what happened. Americans, too, continue to misremember a complex event.

  • The Year China Jumped the Gun

    January 12, 2009

    China is a country that takes anniversaries seriously. But reaction to significant historical events to be commemorated this year has already taken place.

2008

  • 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

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Blogs

» The Beat

House Passes "Historic" Health Reform | Pelosi secures necessary votes, but only after accepting unsettling limits on abortion rights demanded by anti-choice Democrats.
John Nichols
25 Comments

» Editor's Cut

Around The Nation | Obama, one year on. Plus: Jeremy Scahill takes your questions, and a new video series from The Nation.
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» The Notion

Injustice in Illinois | Prosecutors in Illinois should be more concerned with an innocent man behind bars than journalism students' grades.
Ari Berman
28 Comments

» The Dreyfuss Report

Obama Fails in Middle East | Clinton delivers the ultimate diss to Abbas.
Robert Dreyfuss
128 Comments

» Act Now!

Equality Across America | This week, young LBGT activists are staging a National Week of Initiative.
Peter Rothberg
16 Comments

» Altercation

Slacker Thursday | Dying laptops, recapping the election, the Dow, and the Yankees with the World Series.
Eric Alterman