How do we view China today?

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Channel: Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press) · 2016 · Education

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Jeffrey Wasserstrom, editor of the Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China, explores the ways in which China is viewed on a global scale. He highlights areas of concern, including pollution and restricted zones of freedom. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-illustrated-history-of-modern-china-9780199683758

Jeffrey Wasserstrom is Chancellor's Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine, and Editor of the Journal of Asian Studies. He has edited a number of books on China and is the author of four: Student Protests in Twentieth Century China: The View from Shanghai (1991), China's Brave New World-And Other Tales for Global Times (2007),Global Shanghai, 1850-2010 (2009), and China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know (2010; new ed. 2013), the last of which was also published by Oxford University Press. A co-founder of and contributing editor to the influential China Beat blog (2008-2012), he is a regular contributor to the press, including the New York Times andWall Street Journal, and he co-edits the Asia section of the Los Angeles Review of Books. A member of the Board of Directors of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, he has been traveling to China regularly since the 1980s.

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