'A SPONTANEOUS PROTEST took place outside of the Legislative Yuan tonight, drawing hundreds of young people. Overnight spontaneous demonstrations on the scale of today’s protest have been rarely seen in the ten years since the 2014 Sunflower Movement' by Brian Hioe 丘琦欣 cc John Delury

Big congrats, Joseph Torigian! Very well-deserved!

Did a little NPR segment on #Putin 's visit to #China here: wbur.org/hereandnow/202…

Chatted with BBC World Service about Putin’s trip to China (starts around 38 min) bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w1…

OFFICIAL BOOK COVER JUST DROPPED!!! Coming October 2024! Many thanks to the amazing design folks Cornell University Press.

'Both works are part of a renewed interest in US-China relations as personal connections that center individual agency amid structural disruption'
My review of Lautz's 'Americans in China' and Murray, Link, & Pickowicz's 'China Tripping' in PRC History Group
prchistory.org/wp-content/upl…

So excited to read this!

Just received the kindest student email: 'Thank you so much for being a professor who cares for each individual student...Because of your help and guidance, I improved so much throughout the semester...Thank you for having this marvelous class!' I'm not crying...

Thanks for the interest, everyone. Here's an introduction to the book.

My new article 'Beyond revolutions: Mao-era China’s market entry strategies in Latin America' is now online. Many thanks to Ghassan Moazzin John Wong and Jin-A Kang for my inclusion in the special issue in businesshistory!tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Un très grand merci à Lucy Hornby et Jeff Wasserstrom pour avoir permis cette recension de ma biographie du successeur de Mao en parallèle avec une biographie très attendue de Zhou Enlai, son deuxième mentor. Très honoré.
lareviewofbooks.org/article/who-te…

As chairman of the Central Comity of the CCP, Hua Guofeng was the first chinese top leader to visit France in 1979 under Giscard d'Estaing's presidency. At this occasion, he paid tribute to Zhou Enlai who lived in Paris before the foundation of the CCP in 1921.

Really looking forward to this Modern Japan History Association conversation on May 9 with my ANU colleague, Simon Avenell, on his compelling and deeply researched book, “Asia and Postwar Japan: deimperialization, civic activism, and national identity.”

Link below:
mjha.org/event-5511590

INTERVIEWER: can you explain this gap in your resume?

GANDALF THE WHITE: darkness took me. and I strayed out of thought and time. stars wheeled overhead, and every day was as long as the life age of the earth.

Thrilled to announce that our panel “Imperial Entanglements: Empire and the Cold War in East Asia” was accepted for AHA 2025! See everyone in NYC next year! Chair Denise Ho, discussant Benno Weiner, panelists James Gethyn Evans, Syrus Solo Jin, myself, and Cameron Foltz! American Historical Association

Very stoked to read this!

Coming this fall GW History Department: excited to be teaching 'History of Chinese Communism'! This course will focus on the history of the CCP, how the party understands its own past, and how it functions today.

Saturday is the 105th anniversary of the crucial May 4th movement in China. In this China Heritage post guest essayist Jeff Wasserstrom offers an essay on the anniversary and a wonderful reading list of works on student protests, including on Kent State.
chinaheritage.net/journal/may-fo…