Jeffrey Wasserstrom
Biographic Data
| ID | 1244929 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeffrey Wasserstrom |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeffrey |
| FAMILY NAME | Wasserstrom |
| SIGNATURE | WASSERSTROM J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Totalitarianism on trial
The Xi Jinping Effect
Lessons from The Milk Tea Alliance
The Many Booms in Hong Kong’s Past—And the First Ever Hong Kong History Boom
Proximity Matters
Imperial Gateway
Don’t let them call the tune
The Umbrella Movement
Did China Have a 1968
But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, You ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow
Chapter 12. Locating Old Shanghai Having Fits about Where It Fits
Hong Kong and Shanghai, 1987–2017
I have long been interested in Hong Kong, a city I first visited it 1987 and have enjoyed returning to ever since. I have been fascinated by Hong Kong's fate since 1997, as its residents have worked to protect the things that make it special, in spite of efforts by Beijing to make it a more ordinary part of the People's Republic of China. I have been especially concerned about Hong Kong's struggle to stay distinctive since 2014, when I spent a fe…
Remaking the Chinese City
In China today skyscrapers tower over ancient temples, freeways deliver lines of cars and tour buses to imperial palaces, cinema houses compete with old theaters featuring Peking Opera. The disparity evidenced in the contemporary Chinese cityscape can be traced to the early decades of the twentieth century, when government elites sought to transform cities into a new world that would be at once modern and distinctly Chinese. Remaking the Chinese …
The Qing Dynasty’s Past and the Communist Party's Future
What can we learn about China's future from reflecting on the country's past? If you are looking for firm predictions, history does not repeat itself, which means that even the best historical anal
China & Globalization
In recent decades, China has become increasingly enmeshed in global institutions and global flows. This article places that phenomenon into historical perspective via a look back to important globalizing trends of a key earlier period: the late 1800s through early 1900s. The essay draws heavily on C. A. Bayly's discussion of that period, which emphasizes the way that moves toward uniformity do not necessarily produce homogeneity. Bayly's work is …
A letter from an emeritus historian, c. 2049
A response to Aaron Sachs, ‘Letters to a tenured historian’, in which the author reminds us that the ‘disciplining’ or ‘socialization‘ of young historians, whether graduate students or young tenure track professors, often goes well beyond writing and form. Keywords: historiographynew social historynew cultural historymentoringexperimentsprofessionalization
Chinese Femininities/Chinese MasculinitiesA Reader
The past two centuries have witnessed tremendous upheavals in every aspect of Chinese culture and society. At the level of everyday life, some of the most remarkable transformations have occurred in the realm of gender. This book is a mix of illuminating historical and ethnographic studies of gender from the 1700s to the present. The chapters are organized in pairs that alternate in focus between femininity and masculinity, between subjects tradi…
Student Protests in Fin-de-Siecle China
It was springtime in China and, once again, students were taking to the streets and making headlines. Some youths held aloft official flags bearing the names of their schools, while others carried banners covered with passionate phrases written out in Chinese characters or Roman letters. Campuses throughout the
Student Protests in Twentieth-Century China
Student protest and student life
Resistance to the One-Child Family
Chinas one-child family campaign has met with considerable success yet it has not gone unopposed. This comes as no surprise because a country of one-child families means that about half the couples will have no sons a fact that is bound to lead to problems given the immense symbolic and practical importance of male offspring within Chinese society. the number of articles recently printed in the Chinese press criticizing the continuing desire part…
Remaking the Chinese City
In China today skyscrapers tower over ancient temples, freeways deliver lines of cars and tour buses to imperial palaces, cinema houses compete with old theaters featuring Peking Opera. The disparity evidenced in the contemporary Chinese cityscape can be traced to the early decades of the twentieth century, when government elites sought to transform cities into a new world that would be at once modern and distinctly Chinese. Remaking the Chinese …
Resistance to the One-Child Family
Chinas one-child family campaign has met with considerable success yet it has not gone unopposed. This comes as no surprise because a country of one-child families means that about half the couples will have no sons a fact that is bound to lead to problems given the immense symbolic and practical importance of male offspring within Chinese society. the number of articles recently printed in the Chinese press criticizing the continuing desire part…
China & Globalization
In recent decades, China has become increasingly enmeshed in global institutions and global flows. This article places that phenomenon into historical perspective via a look back to important globalizing trends of a key earlier period: the late 1800s through early 1900s. The essay draws heavily on C. A. Bayly's discussion of that period, which emphasizes the way that moves toward uniformity do not necessarily produce homogeneity. Bayly's work is …
Student protest and student life
Resistance to the One-Child Family
Chinas one-child family campaign has met with considerable success yet it has not gone unopposed. This comes as no surprise because a country of one-child families means that about half the couples will have no sons a fact that is bound to lead to problems given the immense symbolic and practical importance of male offspring within Chinese society. the number of articles recently printed in the Chinese press criticizing the continuing desire part…
Student protest and student life
Student Protests in Twentieth-Century China
Student Protests in Fin-de-Siecle China
It was springtime in China and, once again, students were taking to the streets and making headlines. Some youths held aloft official flags bearing the names of their schools, while others carried banners covered with passionate phrases written out in Chinese characters or Roman letters. Campuses throughout the
Chinese Femininities/Chinese MasculinitiesA Reader
The past two centuries have witnessed tremendous upheavals in every aspect of Chinese culture and society. At the level of everyday life, some of the most remarkable transformations have occurred in the realm of gender. This book is a mix of illuminating historical and ethnographic studies of gender from the 1700s to the present. The chapters are organized in pairs that alternate in focus between femininity and masculinity, between subjects tradi…
A letter from an emeritus historian, c. 2049
A response to Aaron Sachs, ‘Letters to a tenured historian’, in which the author reminds us that the ‘disciplining’ or ‘socialization‘ of young historians, whether graduate students or young tenure track professors, often goes well beyond writing and form. Keywords: historiographynew social historynew cultural historymentoringexperimentsprofessionalization
China & Globalization
In recent decades, China has become increasingly enmeshed in global institutions and global flows. This article places that phenomenon into historical perspective via a look back to important globalizing trends of a key earlier period: the late 1800s through early 1900s. The essay draws heavily on C. A. Bayly's discussion of that period, which emphasizes the way that moves toward uniformity do not necessarily produce homogeneity. Bayly's work is …
The Qing Dynasty’s Past and the Communist Party's Future
What can we learn about China's future from reflecting on the country's past? If you are looking for firm predictions, history does not repeat itself, which means that even the best historical anal
Chapter 12. Locating Old Shanghai Having Fits about Where It Fits
Hong Kong and Shanghai, 1987–2017
I have long been interested in Hong Kong, a city I first visited it 1987 and have enjoyed returning to ever since. I have been fascinated by Hong Kong's fate since 1997, as its residents have worked to protect the things that make it special, in spite of efforts by Beijing to make it a more ordinary part of the People's Republic of China. I have been especially concerned about Hong Kong's struggle to stay distinctive since 2014, when I spent a fe…
Remaking the Chinese City
In China today skyscrapers tower over ancient temples, freeways deliver lines of cars and tour buses to imperial palaces, cinema houses compete with old theaters featuring Peking Opera. The disparity evidenced in the contemporary Chinese cityscape can be traced to the early decades of the twentieth century, when government elites sought to transform cities into a new world that would be at once modern and distinctly Chinese. Remaking the Chinese …
Did China Have a 1968
But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, You ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow
The Umbrella Movement
Don’t let them call the tune
Imperial Gateway
Lessons from The Milk Tea Alliance
The Many Booms in Hong Kong’s Past—And the First Ever Hong Kong History Boom
Proximity Matters
Totalitarianism on trial
The Xi Jinping Effect
Political science (10 works) · History (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (7 works) · China (6 works) · Law (6 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (4 works)