Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom - The Oxford History of Modern China

JEFFREY N. WASSERSTROM is the Chancellors Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine, where he also holds courtesy appointments in Law and in Literary Journalism. He has written, co-written, edited, or co-edited a dozen books on topics ranging from human rights and revolutions to gender in Chinese history. His most recent books are, as author, Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink (2020), and, as coauthor, the third edition of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know (2018). He is a past editor of the Journal of Asian Studies (20082018) and a past Associate Editor of the American Historical Review. He is a member of the editorial board of Dissent Magazine and is the advising editor for China for the Los Angeles Review of Books. In addition to writing for scholarly periodicals, he often contributes to newspapers (including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, and the Hindu) and magazines (such as the TLS, the Atlantic, Internazionale, and the American Scholar). He has spoken at literary festivals in Europe, Asia, and the United States and served as a consultant on The Gate of Heavenly Peace, a prize-winning documentary film about the Tiananmen protests and June 4th Massacre.

The fifteen specialists who contributed to the Oxford History of Modern China are all distinguished authorities in their field. They are:

robert bickers , University of Bristol

william a. callahan , London School of Economics and Political Science

james carter , Saint Josephs University

timothy cheek , University of British Columbia

emile dirks , University of Toronto

diana fu , University of Toronto

anne gerritsen , University of Warwick

ian johnson , Council on Foreign Relations

richard curt kraus , University of Oregon

kate merkel-hess , Penn State University

rana mitter , University of Oxford

stephen r. platt , University of Massachusetts, Amherst

s. a. smith , University of Oxford

jeffrey n. wasserstrom , University of California, Irvine

peter zarrow , University of Connecticut

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