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Jeff Wasserstrom

@jwassers.bsky.social

Teaches history at UCI, writes on China for the TLS, LARB, Dissent, WSJ, & other venues, 1st book on East AND Southeast Asia came out in June from Columbia Global Reports https://globalreports.columbia.edu/books/the-milk-tea-alliance

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Milk Tea Alliance Calendar@mtacalendar.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New event! 📆27th May 🕑4pm Pacific Time Pacific Council holds Webinar "What's Next for U.S.–China Relations?" w/ @jwassers.bsky.social, Anka Lee & more. Details: www.pacificcouncil.org/activities/w...

Webinar "What's Next for U.S.–China Relations?" 27th May 4pm Pacific Time Pic shows 2 arseholes about to shake hands.
Jeff Wasserstrom@jwassers.bsky.social · 3mo ago

On May 27, I'll be joining Anka Lee and other insightful people to assess US-China relations in the wake of the summit about to take place, details here, a webinar organized by PCIP, 2pm California time www.pacificcouncil.org/activities/w...

Xun-ling Au 歐迅灵 🏴@xunlingau.bsky.social · 3mo ago

For those aware of Netiwit's views & previous campaigns it should be no surprise how even in the midst of his own case he show's transnational solidarity in his piece. These two section really highlight it He gives South Korean's who fought hard for Conscientious objection to be recognised props too

This is not happening only in Thailand. Across the region, young people are again being asked to surrender their bodies and futures to states that speak the language of national security. In Burma/Myanmar, the military junta has enforced conscription while it continues its war against its own people. In Cambodia, the new draft law also shows how quickly governments can turn young people's lives into instruments of state power. I want to say clearly: young people in Cambodia and Burma should also have the right to refuse conscription when it becomes a tool of dictatorship, fear, or war-making. Our solidarity should not stop at national borders. Thai youth, Cambodian youth, Burmese youth - none of us should be treated merely as bodies for the state.I also think of my friend Joshua Wong, the great Hong Kong activist and serious Christian who is now in jail. Sometimes I feel I have not done enough for Hong Kong democracy while I continue to live freely and happily outside. Maybe if I also face jail in Thailand, I can say to him in the future that I understand a little more. This is also solidarity - with Joshua Wong, with Hong Kong, with Thai freedom activists, and with all people without freedom.Look at South Korea. Its recognition of conscientious objection did not come easily. It came because many people who believed in peace and conscience refused military service. Many ended up in prison. Not one or two, but hundreds and thousands throughout modern history. That suffering helped create the ground for change.
Jeff Wasserstrom@jwassers.bsky.social · 3mo ago

On May 27, I'll be joining Anka Lee and other insightful people to assess US-China relations in the wake of the summit about to take place, details here, a webinar organized by PCIP, 2pm California time www.pacificcouncil.org/activities/w...

What's Next for U.S.–China Relations?

On May 27, at 2 pm PT, the Pacific Council invites you to dial in for a discussion of what lies ahead for the U.S-China relationship, following President Trump's trip to China, scheduled for May 14-15...

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Jeff Wasserstrom@jwassers.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I can't remember when an issue of @nybooks.com had a TOC that grabbed me the way the latest does: 3 authors who are totally different but all ones I enjoy reading & always learn from: Lynn Hunt, Adam Hochschild, & w/ a stunningly good NYRB debut @louisalim.bsky.social www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Scarred in Hong Kong | Louisa Lim

Recent fiction by Hong Kong writers explores life in a society traumatized by ever-tightening Chinese national security laws that suppress political discussion and artistic freedom.

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Kate Merkel-Hess@katemh.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I was delighted to get this book by my fellow UCI alum, Xia Shi, in the mail late last week, a natural follow-up to her first book on elite women int he early Republic. Looking forward to more reading time with it in May.

Photograph of the cover of the book "Concubines in Public: The Rise of the Social Wife in Republican China" by historian Xia SHI, resting on a side table with a knit chicken and a stack of books in the background.
Kate Merkel-Hess@katemh.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A really thoughtful review; worth clicking through to read the whole thing. Liked this observation: “The case studies demonstrate that care, endurance, and domestic labor can themselves become acts of profound rupture.”

Jeff Wasserstrom@jwassers.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Sasha Razor on How to Be a Dissident by @galbeckerman.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/how-... "What anchors Beckerman’s book, and ultimately what stays with the reader, is its emotional honesty." Fascinating discussion of gender & dissent, & naturally glad to see the Milk Tea Alliance part 👇

Made in China Journal@madeinchinajournal.com · 3mo ago

Four books explore Chinese lives in the US from the 19th century to the present, laying bare the shifting boundaries between the citizen and the alien, the criminal and the law. The colour line and class divisions are barriers more formidable than national borders, writes @yangyangcheng.bsky.social.

The Pacific as a Mirror | Made in China Journal

One evening in the early 1960s, physicist Chen Ning Yang took a train from New York City to Long Island. An elderly Chinese man sat next to him and the two struck up a conversation. Born in the centra...

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Gal Beckerman@galbeckerman.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Extremely grateful for this deeply engaged review of How to Be a Dissident in the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, which correctly diagnoses my state of mind: "He does not flinch from his own dilemmas...This is writing that trusts the reader to be in the same difficulty. It earns that trust."

Los Angeles Review of Books@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"'How to Be a Dissident' is a book about moral self-inventory, written by someone honest enough to admit that his own might come up short." Sasha Razor reviews Gal Beckerman's "How to Be a Dissident": https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/how-be-dissident-gal-beckerman-resistance-tiananmen-gulag/

The cover of How to be a Dissident
Columbia Global Reports@columbiagr.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Livestream event! Join us for a conversation about the backbone of modern life—the robust network of delicate undersea cables that makeup the internet—featuring experts across business, engineering, and journalism. 🗓️ Wed May 6, 12pm ET Everyone is welcome! Just be sure to register by 5/1 ⤵️

The Fragile Undersea Cables That Connect Our World | Columbia Global Reports

A conversation about the fragile fiber cables that power and connect our modern life

globalreports.columbia.edu