Audio, photographs, and partial video footage are now available from the March 27, 2018 event "China’s Latest Strongman Leader: Putting Xi Jinping Into Historical and Comparative Perspective." The event featured Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Chancellor’s Professor of History, UC Irvine; Maura Elizabeth Cunningham, historian and writer; Charles K. Armstrong, Korea Foundation … [Read more...]
Watch Howard French and Jeff Wasserstrom Discuss China’s Past and Present
The Weatherhead East Asian Institute is pleased to share a December 12, 2016 conversation between Howard W. French, Associate Professor of Journalism at the Columbia Journalism School, and Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Chancellor's Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine, about the influence of China's political history on current events. Howard W. French is … [Read more...]
February 4 Event: “Chinese Dreams and Chinese Nightmares, 1989 to 2014”
Photographs and audio are now available from the February 4, 2015 event "Chinese Dreams and Chinese Nightmares, 1989 to 2014." The standing-room only event featured a lecture by Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Chancellor's Professor of History, University of California, Irvine. Professor Wasserstrom's lecture was moderated by David Stark, Arthur Lehman Professor of Sociology and … [Read more...]
