Jeff Wasserstrom

Rian Thum will be at UCLA Nov 10 talking about his impressive new book, Islamic China: An Asian History www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/event/1...

👇 Wide ranging and insightful piece by @spoem.bsky.social that places Yu Hua's latest work into the context of his previous works of fiction and writings by other important figures of his generation, via @chinabooksreview.com

Yu Hua: Fictional Cities | China Books Review The bestselling Chinese novelist foregrounds individual suffering in the chaos of modern Chinese history. In his latest novel in translation, gratuitous violence shows the limits of fiction.

@chinabooksreview.com just published my review of Yu Hua's 余华 *City of Fiction*《文城》(2021, tr. 2025).

"Along with other contemporary Chinese works with such graphic violence, Yu’s novel does political work by purging the traumas of China’s bloody 20th century."
chinabooksreview.com/2025/10/30/f...

Beyond Representation: On Being a Woman in Science in China | Made in China Journal In the autumn of 1995, Ye Shuhua made a speech. During the NGO Forum at the United Nation’s Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing, the 68-year-old astronomer took to the microphone and cal...

@yangyangcheng.bsky.social has written insightful and powerful pieces on science, culture, and current events as it relates to China and the U.S.
Most recently, she traced the stories and struggles that face Chinese women in science for @madeinchinajournal.com madeinchinajournal.com/2025/10/08/b...

So very looking forward to teaching this virtual workshop on writing across and beyond borders! Ticket sales go towards supporting @nuvoices.bsky.social, of which I'm a longtime reader and listener, and big fan😍
Details and sign-up:
nuvoices.com/2025/10/27/v...

If you love @yangyangcheng.bsky.social's writing as much as I do, check out her upcoming virtual writing workshop with NüVoices!

13. "The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia's Struggle Against Autocracy and Beijing" (2025) by @jwassers.bsky.social has Myanmar content. @liasciortino.bsky.social & Linn Lat Tar Yar edited "Living the Coup: Collective Diary of Daily Life in Myanmar" ('25) @SEAJunction obor.or.id/living-the-c...

7. Burma resource watcher @clarammond.bsky.social wrote an extraordinary political travel book, “On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey through Occupied Myanmar” (2024) which follows a trajectory of railway lines (neglected, built with forced labor) to reveal decades of military misrule & abuse.

1. This History Thread is about recent (2023-25) books on Burma (Myanmar.) It includes books on WW2, ethnic issues & the anti-coup revolution. A pre-order announcement of my new book "Where the Mithuns Are: Essays on War, Art and Beasts" is at the end. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar 📚

👇Speaking at LSE today at 5

27th Oct 5pm London LSE Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre host Wichuta Teearanabodee & Jeffrey Wasserstrom for talk: "Tales of Two Cities: Prodeomcracy Protests and Beijing's Lengthening Shadow in Bangkok and Hong Kong, 2015-2025

Opps missed an event for Monday: 😅

LSE Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre host Wichuta Teearanabodee & @jwassers.bsky.social for talk:
"Tales of Two Cities: Prodeomcracy Protests and Beijing's Lengthening Shadow in Bangkok and Hong Kong, 2015-2025

That's all the events we have for this week.
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Tales of Two Cities: Prodemocracy Protests and Beijing’s Lengthening Shadow in Bangkok and Hong Kong, 2015-2025

After writing 2 essays for @jodemocracy.bsky.social together without meeting in person, Wichuta Teeratanabodee & I finally met yesterday, ahead of sharing a stage tomorrow at an LSE event www.lse.ac.uk/seac/events/... (she & I are collaborating on a 3rd commentary now, with a 3rd coauthor this time)

Staying in Cambridge now with good people to see & talk to about things on my mind like Orwell, great views like this, in London tomorrow to meet up with people to chat & do this Milk Tea Alliance event at 5 www.lse.ac.uk/seac/events/...

Very glad my book is displayed, literally, in the middle of Nowhere. Note: Nowhere books in The Hague focuses on Asia, but when I referred to liking a new book by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, the manager smiled & pulled a copy of No Straight Road Takes You There from the shelves to show the audience.

Best mementoes ever for a book talk, courtesy of the branch of the Nowhere bookstore in The Hague, which proved an ideal place to talk about The Milk Tea Alliance last evening, very impressed by the way the event was handled & the varied & engaged group of people who came & the questions they asked

Visited The Hague’s branch of the Nowhere Bookstore yesterday and checking in out confirmed my sense that it’s an ideal place to talk about protests in Hong Kong, Thailand, and Burma—going back there at 6:30pm today to do a book launch on that topic

On October 30 I’ll be speaking at UCI, about my new book on protests in East & Southeast Asia between 2019 & 2021—& will bring up contrasts & parallels to recent events in places like Nepal www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/e...

First talk in the Netherlands starting in 90 minutes here in Leiden 👇, with two in The Hague to follow on Thursday & Friday

On the train from Amsterdam to Leiden to give a talk there in around 2 1/2 hours, details 👇—talks tomorrow & Friday in The Hague, details here leidenasiacentre.nl/event/jeffre... & here docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... & then on Monday I’ll be part of this LSE event www.lse.ac.uk/seac/events/...

The legendary 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐊𝐰𝐚𝐢 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐓𝐲𝐩𝐞𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫 has been found. On 2 Dec, Stanford will reintroduce it to the world, featuring: Tom Mullaney, Yangyang Cheng, Emma Teng, David Brock, Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Willie Liu, & Martin Wong

www.eventbrite.com/e/mingkwai-r...
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Jeffrey Wasserstrom on China, Protest and Asia’s Struggle against Autocracy - Leiden Asia Centre China is changing the world—and the world is responding. In just a few decades, China has gone from isolated state to global powerhouse, reshaping politics, culture, and the fight for democracy across...

"In this lecture Wasserstrom will discuss both the big picture of China’s development and the more intimate stories of regional activism" on- en offline Den Haag), 23 okt 16 u.
leidenasiacentre.nl/event/jeffre...

👇 @katiestallard.bsky.social @eosnos.bsky.social

First time I’ve had a book reviewed in @foreignaffairs.com so especially pleased by having this short take on The Milk Tea Alliance www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/milk... to go with earlier ones in Cha, The Inside Story, & @newstatesman1913.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia’s Struggle Against Autocracy and Beijing Jeffrey Wasserstrom brings to life the motivations of democracy activists in Hong Kong, Myanmar, Taiwan, and Thailand, and how they inspired, engaged with, and learned from one another and the rest of...

www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/milk... —delighted to see my latest @columbiagr.bsky.social book reviewed by Elizabeth Economy in the new issue of @foreignaffairs.com

When Milk Tea becomes a movement History professor chronicles how young activists across Asia are forging unprecedented alliances in the struggle for democracy

Glad to see this piece by Nikki Babri come out from @ucirvine.bsky.social's School of Humanities www.humanities.uci.edu/news/when-mi... (just ahead of my first UCI talk about my new book, a joint event with Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow and @amywilentz.bsky.social www.humanities.uci.edu/events/art-i... )

Very nice to be referred to here as I look forward to giving talks the Hague on related themes, eg this on Oct 23rd leidenasiacentre.nl/event/jeffre... & at the Nowhere bookstore on the 24th cc @annegerritsen.bsky.social @iandenisjohnson.bsky.social @melissakchan.bsky.social

👇 @avtansa.bsky.social @manyapan.bsky.social @matthewblongo.bsky.social details on some of my upcoming European events here docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... & leidenasiacentre.nl/event/jeffre...

PEN International #China: Today, on the 10-year anniversary of the kidnapping of poet, bookseller and PEN member, Gui Minhai, 65 PEN Centres around the world renew our demand for his immediate and unconditional...

#China: Today, on the 10-year anniversary of the kidnapping of poet, bookseller and PEN member, Gui Minhai, 65 PEN Centres around the world renew our demand for his immediate and unconditional release.

Read our joint statement ⬇️

www.pen-international.org/news/china-p...

#FreeGuiMinhai

Hey @polscileiden.bsky.social peeps… come here @jwassers.bsky.social speak next week in The Hague !!!

I’ll be there… ✊

When Milk Tea becomes a movement History professor chronicles how young activists across Asia are forging unprecedented alliances in the struggle for democracy

Glad to see this piece by Nikki Babri come out from @ucirvine.bsky.social's School of Humanities www.humanities.uci.edu/news/when-mi... (just ahead of my first UCI talk about my new book, a joint event with Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow and @amywilentz.bsky.social www.humanities.uci.edu/events/art-i... )