Jeff Wasserstrom
@jwassers
Most recent book: Vigil (https://t.co/POZZray3xj); Day job: UCI history prof; publishes as "Jeffrey," goes by "Jeff"; on Blue Sky, jwassers
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http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5310 06-04-2011 23:09:50
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Excl: China’s last major mosque to have retained Arab-style features has now lost its domes, a major moment in Beijing’s Sinification of Islam policy
With Elena Morresi theguardian.com/world/article/…
Congratulations to the finalists for The Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2024!
'Many of the books we have chosen are sure to become modern classics. It will not be easy to choose a winner.' - Peter Frankopan, Chair of Judges
Explore the shortlists: orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-pri…
David Pilling is a finalist for The Orwell Prize for Journalism 2024!
david pilling Financial Times #OrwellPrizes2024
Read, watch and listen to the shortlists: orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-pri…
THE PICNIC: AN ESCAPE TO FREEDOM AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE IRON CURTAIN is shortlisted for The Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2024!
'Longo perfectly captures the idealism of the time and its echoes today.' - christinalamb, Orwell Prize judge
Matthew Longo The Bodley Head
CHINA'S AGE OF ABUNDANCE
A historical and sociological analysis of China's meteoric gains in living standards. Shifts focus from institutions and policies toward consumption patterns among poorer, rural populations.
March 2024
Wang Feng
Cambridge University Press
cambridge.org/core/books/chi…
Zhongnanhai is China’s equivalent to the White House and among the most secretive places in the country. But it wasn’t always that way. Jonathan Chatwin on its many lives: cnn.com/2024/05/25/sty…
Excited for the new publication in The China Journal w my grad student and soon incoming UVA East Asia Center post-doc Wendy Zhou on #Chinese public sentiments about #Russia 's war in #Ukraine . Free copy for first 50 clicks here: journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/87RC9V8…. Thread with our arguments below
History shows Hong Kong as harbour for political reformers | The Hong Konger, by the talented & versatile writer Ilaria Maria Sala cc Rachel Leow hongkonger.world/2024/05/22/his…
Feature: History shows Hong Kong as harbour for political reformers
Once upon a time, the city under British rule tolerated the goings-on surrounding Sun Yat Sen, Ho Chi Minh and other revolutionaries
by Ilaria Maria Sala hongkonger.world/2024/05/22/his…
How can Chinese—a language with tens of thousands of characters and no alphabet—be input on a QWERTY keyboard with only a few dozen keys?
Honored to speak Computer History Museum on June 18, in conversation with the one and only Yangyang Cheng
computerhistory.org/events/the-chi…
👇 This William A. Callahan comment goes well/Rhoda Kwan's elegant review of the exhibit China's Hidden Century (and book of scholarly essays by the same name) from a Hong Konger perspective in Mekong Review mekongreview.com/past-and-futur… (a review illustrated by a photo of that treaty)
Reviewed in The China Quarterly!
'Should be read by every serious student of US-China relations...& international political economy more generally. Beautifully and engagingly written, it is also a book that will give all readers genuine pleasure & enjoyment' cambridge.org/core/journals/…
