The Social Costs of China's Modernization: Implications for Chinese Politics and U.S.-China Relations

The Sigur Center for Asian Studies presents a talk about the effects of Chinese modernization by UC Irvine's Jeffrey Wasserstrom.

Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Professor of History, University of California at Irvine

Commentary from:

Warren Cohen, Distinguished University Professor of History and Presidential Research Professor, University of Maryland

Nancy Bernkopf Tucker, Professor of History, Georgetown University and Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service

Carla Freeman, Associate Director, China Studies Program, the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, the Johns Hopkins University

Jeffrey Wasserstrom is Professor of History at University of California Irvine and the Editor of the Journal of Asian Studies. He is the author of four books: Student Protests in Twentieth-Century China (Stanford, 1991), China's Brave New World (Indiana, 2007), Global Shanghai, 1850-2010 (Routledge, 2009), and China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford, 2010). He has also edited or co-edited five other books. His essays have appeared in many academic journals, as well as in newspapers, such as the International Herald Tribune and the Los Angeles Times, and magazines such as Foreign Policy, the Nation, Outlook India, and Time and Newsweek . He blogs regularly for the Huffington Post, is a co-founder of the "China Beat" blog/electronic magazine, and has been a guest on NPR's "Morning Edition" and "All Things Considered." He has lectured on four continents, been a consultant for two prize-winning documentaries on Chinese history, and been interviewed about U.S.-China relations by the BBC and CNN. He earned his Master's degree in East Asian Studies in 1984 from Harvard and received his doctorate in History in 1989 from Berkeley.

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