Jeffrey N Wasserstrom
Biographic Data
| ID | 245406 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeffrey N Wasserstrom |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeffrey N |
| FAMILY NAME | Wasserstrom |
| SIGNATURE | WASSERSTROM J N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Associate Professor of History,Indiana University. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Popular Protest and Political Culture in Modern China: Second Edition
Chinese Revolutions: Twentieth Century
Twentieth-Century China: New Approaches
Reflections on a watershed date: the 1949 divide in Chinese history / Paul A. Cohen -- Ten theses on the Chinese Revolution / Joseph W. Esherick -- Toward a Chinese feminism: a personal story / Lin Chun -- Newspapers and nationalism in rural China 1890-1929 / Henrietta Harrison -- Contours of revolutionary change in a Chinese county, 1900-1950 / R. Keith Schoppa -- Perspective on the Chinese Communist revolution / Kathleen Hartford, Steven M. Gol…
China and the Town Square Test
This essay assesses the way that issues relating to freedom of speech and public and private forms of dissent have and have not changed in the People’s Republic of China in recent decades. It looks at the way China’s unusual trajectory suggests that Nathan Sharansky’s famous “town square test,” which is often used to divide countries along a single axis (with “free” nations on one side, “fear” nations on the other) is problematic. The need to tak…
Strange Parallels - Editor's Note
China in the 21st century: What Everyone Needs to Know
The need to understand this global giant has never been more pressing: China is constantly in the news, yet conflicting impressions abound. Within one generation, China has transformed from an impoverished, repressive state into an economic and political powerhouse. In this book the author provides cogent answers to the most urgent questions regarding the newest superpower and offers a framework for understanding its meteoric rise. Focusing his a…
A Country on the Move: China Urbanizes
China's government has managed rural-to-urban migration through heavyhanded policies that have guarded the prosperity of the cities at the expense of rural areas
China Since Tiananmen: Middle-Class Mobilization
Some of the many China stories to attract attention recently have involved NIMBY (Not in My Backyard) protests by largely middle class crowds gathering to demand a greater say in urban development plans. This article argues that such protests a) are a significant addition to the already complex landscape of Chinese collective action (and signal a shift in some quarters from worrying about obstacles to modernization to worrying about the social co…
China's Brave New World: Name
China's Brave New World: And Other Tales for Global Times
Foreword by Vladimir Tismaneanu Introduction Part One: Adventures in China-Watching 1. Burgers, Beepers, and Bowling Alleys 2. Mr. Mao Ringtones 3. All the Coffee in China 4. The Generalissimo Would Not be Amused Part Two: The Inscrutable West 5. Searching the Stars for Emily Hahn 6. Traveling with Twain 7. Around the World with Grant and Li 8. The Time Machine of Tippecanoe County Part Three: Turn-of-the-Century Flashbacks 9. Mixed Emotions: Chi…
A Big Ben with Chinese characteristics: The Customs House as urban icon in Old and New Shanghai
A huge clock, made at Whitechurch by Messrs. J. B. Joyce and Co ... has been sent to Shanghai, for the new Chinese Maritime Customs House. The clock, weighing nearly 30 tons, will probably be the Big Ben of the Far East
Chinese Students and Anti-Japanese Protests, Past and Present
Research Article| June 01 2005 Chinese Students and Anti-Japanese Protests, Past and Present Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom is professor of history and of East Asian languages and an adjunct in the American Studies Program at Indiana University, where he also serves as director of the East Asian Studies Center. He is the author of Student Protests in Twentieth-Century China: The View from Shanghai (Stanford U…
China's Brave New World
China's leaders have shifted from relying on Orwellian strategies to policies that Huxley provides us with a better guide for understanding. ... [T]o see China today as a Big Brother state is to miss much that has been actually taking place in the People's Republic
Current Chinese Protests and the Prism of Tiananmen
Ever since 1989, the protests of that year have been used as a yardstick against which new outbursts of unrest in China are measured by the press. This makes sense, but it can also lead to some misunderstandings, especially because an incomplete or distorted sense of what took place in the movement associated with the word Tiananmen comes into play, thanks to the way that struggle has been misremembered (e.g., as one in which only students took p…
Chinese Femininities/Chinese Masculinities: A 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. Chinese Femininities/Chinese Masculinities is a mix of illuminating historical and ethnographic studies of gender from the 1700s to the present. The essays in this highly creative collection are organized in pairs that alternate i…
Waiting for China's Lech Walesa
Has the Chinese body politic finally been infected by what Beijing officials have sometimes dubbed the ‘Polish disease’...? Could China's 2002 turn out to be like Poland's 1981, a turning-point year when cleansing fevers (to invert the medical metaphor) began to take effect
Chinese Femininities/Chinese MasculinitiesA Reader: A 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…
Using History to Think about the Beijing Olympics: The Use and Abuse of the Seoul 1988 Analogy
Using History to Think about the Beijing Olympics: The Use and Abuse of the Seoul 1988 Analogy
Human Rights and Revolutions
Human Rights and the Lessons of History
When attempting to bring pressure on Beijing, the United States should stop using vague universal standards or comparisons with the contemporary United States. Washington's criticisms of the Chinese Communist Party should instead build on Beijing's own claims about history and politics
New Approaches to Old Shanghai
October 01 2001 New Approaches to Old Shanghai Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom Associate Professor of History,Indiana University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom Associate Professor of History,Indiana University. Online Issn: 1530-9169 Print Issn: 0022-1953 © 2001 Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the editors of The Journal of Interdisci…
Legacies of Radicalism: China's Cultural Revolution and the Democracy Movement of 1989
Students in 1989 were at pains to distinguish their actions from those taken by students in the Cultural Revolution. Yet there were important similarities. In the present paper, we identify influence on the Democracy Movement from the Cultural Revolution through (1) the expansion and/or widespread familiarization of repertories of collective action available to Chinese activists; (2) precedents for collective action that may have lowered the barr…
Shanghai's “Dogs and Chinese Not Admitted” Sign: Legend, History and Contemporary Symbol
This article examines the potency and persistence of myth and language in the context of the dispute, now over 80 years old, about the officially-sanctioned wording of regulations in the municipal parks of foreign-administered Shanghai. Specifically, it examines the potent symbol of the sign placed in Shanghai's Huangpu Park that allegedly read: “Chinese and Dogs Not Admitted.” This symbol has secured a totemic position in the historiography of t…
Power in Movement: Social Movement, Collective Action and Politics.
Acting Out Democracy: Political Theater in Modern China
For two and a half months in the spring of 1989, China's student actors dominated the world stage of modern telecommunications. Their massive demonstrations, the hunger strike during Gorbachev's visit, and the dramatic appearance of the Goddess of Democracy captured the attention of an audience that spanned the globe. As we write in mid-1990, the movement and its bloody suppression have already produced an enormous body of literature-from eyewitn…
China Since Tiananmen: Middle-Class Mobilization
Some of the many China stories to attract attention recently have involved NIMBY (Not in My Backyard) protests by largely middle class crowds gathering to demand a greater say in urban development plans. This article argues that such protests a) are a significant addition to the already complex landscape of Chinese collective action (and signal a shift in some quarters from worrying about obstacles to modernization to worrying about the social co…
Chinese Femininities/Chinese Masculinities: A 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. Chinese Femininities/Chinese Masculinities is a mix of illuminating historical and ethnographic studies of gender from the 1700s to the present. The essays in this highly creative collection are organized in pairs that alternate i…
Current Chinese Protests and the Prism of Tiananmen
Ever since 1989, the protests of that year have been used as a yardstick against which new outbursts of unrest in China are measured by the press. This makes sense, but it can also lead to some misunderstandings, especially because an incomplete or distorted sense of what took place in the movement associated with the word Tiananmen comes into play, thanks to the way that struggle has been misremembered (e.g., as one in which only students took p…
A Big Ben with Chinese characteristics: The Customs House as urban icon in Old and New Shanghai
A huge clock, made at Whitechurch by Messrs. J. B. Joyce and Co ... has been sent to Shanghai, for the new Chinese Maritime Customs House. The clock, weighing nearly 30 tons, will probably be the Big Ben of the Far East
Legacies of Radicalism: China's Cultural Revolution and the Democracy Movement of 1989
Students in 1989 were at pains to distinguish their actions from those taken by students in the Cultural Revolution. Yet there were important similarities. In the present paper, we identify influence on the Democracy Movement from the Cultural Revolution through (1) the expansion and/or widespread familiarization of repertories of collective action available to Chinese activists; (2) precedents for collective action that may have lowered the barr…
Acting Out Democracy: Political Theater in Modern China
For two and a half months in the spring of 1989, China's student actors dominated the world stage of modern telecommunications. Their massive demonstrations, the hunger strike during Gorbachev's visit, and the dramatic appearance of the Goddess of Democracy captured the attention of an audience that spanned the globe. As we write in mid-1990, the movement and its bloody suppression have already produced an enormous body of literature-from eyewitn…
Student Protests in Twentieth-Century China: The View from Shanghai
Toward a social history of the Chinese Revolution: A review Part II: The state of the field
Towards a social history of the Chinese revolution: A review: Part 1 : The evolution of a field 1
Popular Protest and Political Culture in Modern China: Learning from 1989.
Popular Protest and Political Culture in Modern China: Learning from 1989
Student Protests in Twentieth-Century China: The View from Shanghai
Popular Protest and Political Culture in Modern China: Learning from 1989
Popular Protest And Political Culture In Modern China: Second Edition
Introduction: Chinese Political Culture Revisited Elizabeth J. Perry. General Frameworks * Imagining the Ancien Rgime in the Deng Era Ernest P. Young. * Acting Out Democracy: Political Theater in Modern China Joseph W. Esherick and Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom. Class, Gender, And Identity: 1989 As A Social Movement * Casting a Chinese Democracy Movement: The Roles of Students, Workers, and Entrepreneurs E. J. Perry. * Science, Democracy, and the Politi…
The Cambridge History of China. XV. The People's Republic, Part 2: Revolutions within the Chinese Revolution
Student Protests in Twentieth-Century China: The View from Shanghai
Shanghai's “Dogs and Chinese Not Admitted” Sign: Legend, History and Contemporary Symbol
This article examines the potency and persistence of myth and language in the context of the dispute, now over 80 years old, about the officially-sanctioned wording of regulations in the municipal parks of foreign-administered Shanghai. Specifically, it examines the potent symbol of the sign placed in Shanghai's Huangpu Park that allegedly read: “Chinese and Dogs Not Admitted.” This symbol has secured a totemic position in the historiography of t…
Power in Movement: Social Movement, Collective Action and Politics.
Legacies of Radicalism: China's Cultural Revolution and the Democracy Movement of 1989
Students in 1989 were at pains to distinguish their actions from those taken by students in the Cultural Revolution. Yet there were important similarities. In the present paper, we identify influence on the Democracy Movement from the Cultural Revolution through (1) the expansion and/or widespread familiarization of repertories of collective action available to Chinese activists; (2) precedents for collective action that may have lowered the barr…
Human Rights and the Lessons of History
When attempting to bring pressure on Beijing, the United States should stop using vague universal standards or comparisons with the contemporary United States. Washington's criticisms of the Chinese Communist Party should instead build on Beijing's own claims about history and politics
New Approaches to Old Shanghai
October 01 2001 New Approaches to Old Shanghai Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom Associate Professor of History,Indiana University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom Associate Professor of History,Indiana University. Online Issn: 1530-9169 Print Issn: 0022-1953 © 2001 Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the editors of The Journal of Interdisci…
Waiting for China's Lech Walesa
Has the Chinese body politic finally been infected by what Beijing officials have sometimes dubbed the ‘Polish disease’...? Could China's 2002 turn out to be like Poland's 1981, a turning-point year when cleansing fevers (to invert the medical metaphor) began to take effect
Chinese Femininities/Chinese MasculinitiesA Reader: A 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…
Using History to Think about the Beijing Olympics: The Use and Abuse of the Seoul 1988 Analogy
Using History to Think about the Beijing Olympics: The Use and Abuse of the Seoul 1988 Analogy
Human Rights and Revolutions
China's Brave New World
China's leaders have shifted from relying on Orwellian strategies to policies that Huxley provides us with a better guide for understanding. ... [T]o see China today as a Big Brother state is to miss much that has been actually taking place in the People's Republic
Current Chinese Protests and the Prism of Tiananmen
Ever since 1989, the protests of that year have been used as a yardstick against which new outbursts of unrest in China are measured by the press. This makes sense, but it can also lead to some misunderstandings, especially because an incomplete or distorted sense of what took place in the movement associated with the word Tiananmen comes into play, thanks to the way that struggle has been misremembered (e.g., as one in which only students took p…
Chinese Femininities/Chinese Masculinities: A 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. Chinese Femininities/Chinese Masculinities is a mix of illuminating historical and ethnographic studies of gender from the 1700s to the present. The essays in this highly creative collection are organized in pairs that alternate i…
Chinese Students and Anti-Japanese Protests, Past and Present
Research Article| June 01 2005 Chinese Students and Anti-Japanese Protests, Past and Present Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom is professor of history and of East Asian languages and an adjunct in the American Studies Program at Indiana University, where he also serves as director of the East Asian Studies Center. He is the author of Student Protests in Twentieth-Century China: The View from Shanghai (Stanford U…
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