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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Great panel discussion the other night at Humboldt University IAAW about the #MilkTeaAlliance. Thanks to @jwassers.bsky.social and other panelists! Refreshments = Milk tea from Myanmar, Hong Kong, Taiwan, & Thailand 😀
November 20, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Great panel discussion the other night at Humboldt University IAAW about the #MilkTeaAlliance. Thanks to @jwassers.bsky.social and other panelists! Refreshments = Milk tea from Myanmar, Hong Kong, Taiwan, & Thailand 😀
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Arnika Fuhrmann's IN THE MOOD FOR TEXTURE analyzes how Chinese pasts and the aesthetics of colonial modernity are revived in Bangkok through film, literature, architecture, fashion, and nightlife to shape present visions of Asia. Preorder for 50% off and read the intro now: buff.ly/j7Qgtg1
November 4, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Arnika Fuhrmann's IN THE MOOD FOR TEXTURE analyzes how Chinese pasts and the aesthetics of colonial modernity are revived in Bangkok through film, literature, architecture, fashion, and nightlife to shape present visions of Asia. Preorder for 50% off and read the intro now: buff.ly/j7Qgtg1
www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho... —good reads give away provides a chance to get a special book that mixes reportage & travel writing, with some adventure thrown in, sheds insights into todays Russia, coming soon from @wwnorton.com
Book giveaway for Volga Blues: A Journey into the Heart of Russia by Marzio G. Mian Nov 03-Dec 01, 2025
Enter to win one of 10 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Nov 03-Dec 01, 2025. A risky undercover reporting trip along Russia’s great mother–rive...
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November 3, 2025 at 8:01 PM
www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho... —good reads give away provides a chance to get a special book that mixes reportage & travel writing, with some adventure thrown in, sheds insights into todays Russia, coming soon from @wwnorton.com
Great to see @indexoncensorship.org publish these prison letters by a Thai activist (w/valuable contextualizing comments by @turtelista.bsky.social ); the letters contain elements of interest to those particularly interested in other places, like Korea, as well journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Jailed for criticising the royal family - Tyrell Haberkorn, Sophon “Get” Suratitthamrong, 2025
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November 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Looking forward to reading @rianthum.bsky.social ‘s important new book, Islamic China. Pre-order your copy today! www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
November 1, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Looking forward to reading @rianthum.bsky.social ‘s important new book, Islamic China. Pre-order your copy today! www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
Great to see @indexoncensorship.org publish these prison letters by a Thai activist (w/valuable contextualizing comments by @turtelista.bsky.social ); the letters contain elements of interest to those particularly interested in other places, like Korea, as well journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Jailed for criticising the royal family - Tyrell Haberkorn, Sophon “Get” Suratitthamrong, 2025
journals.sagepub.com
November 1, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Great to see @indexoncensorship.org publish these prison letters by a Thai activist (w/valuable contextualizing comments by @turtelista.bsky.social ); the letters contain elements of interest to those particularly interested in other places, like Korea, as well journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Rian Thum will be at UCLA Nov 10 talking about his impressive new book, Islamic China: An Asian History www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/event/1...
UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies
The UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies fosters interdisciplinary research and public engagement on the Middle East and North Africa, promoting academic events, language training, and educational pro...
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October 31, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Rian Thum will be at UCLA Nov 10 talking about his impressive new book, Islamic China: An Asian History www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/event/1...
👇 Wide ranging and insightful piece by @spoem.bsky.social that places Yu Hua's latest work into the context of his previous works of fiction and writings by other important figures of his generation, via @chinabooksreview.com
@chinabooksreview.com just published my review of Yu Hua's 余华 *City of Fiction*《文城》(2021, tr. 2025).
"Along with other contemporary Chinese works with such graphic violence, Yu’s novel does political work by purging the traumas of China’s bloody 20th century."
chinabooksreview.com/2025/10/30/f...
"Along with other contemporary Chinese works with such graphic violence, Yu’s novel does political work by purging the traumas of China’s bloody 20th century."
chinabooksreview.com/2025/10/30/f...
Yu Hua: Fictional Cities | China Books Review
The bestselling Chinese novelist foregrounds individual suffering in the chaos of modern Chinese history. In his latest novel in translation, gratuitous violence shows the limits of fiction.
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October 30, 2025 at 10:42 PM
👇 Wide ranging and insightful piece by @spoem.bsky.social that places Yu Hua's latest work into the context of his previous works of fiction and writings by other important figures of his generation, via @chinabooksreview.com
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@chinabooksreview.com just published my review of Yu Hua's 余华 *City of Fiction*《文城》(2021, tr. 2025).
"Along with other contemporary Chinese works with such graphic violence, Yu’s novel does political work by purging the traumas of China’s bloody 20th century."
chinabooksreview.com/2025/10/30/f...
"Along with other contemporary Chinese works with such graphic violence, Yu’s novel does political work by purging the traumas of China’s bloody 20th century."
chinabooksreview.com/2025/10/30/f...
Yu Hua: Fictional Cities | China Books Review
The bestselling Chinese novelist foregrounds individual suffering in the chaos of modern Chinese history. In his latest novel in translation, gratuitous violence shows the limits of fiction.
chinabooksreview.com
October 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
@chinabooksreview.com just published my review of Yu Hua's 余华 *City of Fiction*《文城》(2021, tr. 2025).
"Along with other contemporary Chinese works with such graphic violence, Yu’s novel does political work by purging the traumas of China’s bloody 20th century."
chinabooksreview.com/2025/10/30/f...
"Along with other contemporary Chinese works with such graphic violence, Yu’s novel does political work by purging the traumas of China’s bloody 20th century."
chinabooksreview.com/2025/10/30/f...
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@yangyangcheng.bsky.social has written insightful and powerful pieces on science, culture, and current events as it relates to China and the U.S.
Most recently, she traced the stories and struggles that face Chinese women in science for @madeinchinajournal.com madeinchinajournal.com/2025/10/08/b...
Most recently, she traced the stories and struggles that face Chinese women in science for @madeinchinajournal.com madeinchinajournal.com/2025/10/08/b...
Beyond Representation: On Being a Woman in Science in China | Made in China Journal
In the autumn of 1995, Ye Shuhua made a speech. During the NGO Forum at the United Nation’s Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing, the 68-year-old astronomer took to the microphone and cal...
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October 29, 2025 at 5:01 PM
@yangyangcheng.bsky.social has written insightful and powerful pieces on science, culture, and current events as it relates to China and the U.S.
Most recently, she traced the stories and struggles that face Chinese women in science for @madeinchinajournal.com madeinchinajournal.com/2025/10/08/b...
Most recently, she traced the stories and struggles that face Chinese women in science for @madeinchinajournal.com madeinchinajournal.com/2025/10/08/b...
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So very looking forward to teaching this virtual workshop on writing across and beyond borders! Ticket sales go towards supporting @nuvoices.bsky.social, of which I'm a longtime reader and listener, and big fan😍
Details and sign-up:
nuvoices.com/2025/10/27/v...
Details and sign-up:
nuvoices.com/2025/10/27/v...
🚨How can we write about China-US relations without a Cold-War binary or Orientalist rhetoric? Check out our upcoming virtual writing workshop with @yangyangcheng.bsky.social!
📅6 December 2025, 12 – 1:45 PM
💲$40 USD ($20 for students/members/grads)
For more details: nuvoices.com/2025/10/27/v...
📅6 December 2025, 12 – 1:45 PM
💲$40 USD ($20 for students/members/grads)
For more details: nuvoices.com/2025/10/27/v...
October 29, 2025 at 5:20 PM
So very looking forward to teaching this virtual workshop on writing across and beyond borders! Ticket sales go towards supporting @nuvoices.bsky.social, of which I'm a longtime reader and listener, and big fan😍
Details and sign-up:
nuvoices.com/2025/10/27/v...
Details and sign-up:
nuvoices.com/2025/10/27/v...
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If you love @yangyangcheng.bsky.social's writing as much as I do, check out her upcoming virtual writing workshop with NüVoices!
🚨How can we write about China-US relations without a Cold-War binary or Orientalist rhetoric? Check out our upcoming virtual writing workshop with @yangyangcheng.bsky.social!
📅6 December 2025, 12 – 1:45 PM
💲$40 USD ($20 for students/members/grads)
For more details: nuvoices.com/2025/10/27/v...
📅6 December 2025, 12 – 1:45 PM
💲$40 USD ($20 for students/members/grads)
For more details: nuvoices.com/2025/10/27/v...
October 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM
If you love @yangyangcheng.bsky.social's writing as much as I do, check out her upcoming virtual writing workshop with NüVoices!
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13. "The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia's Struggle Against Autocracy and Beijing" (2025) by @jwassers.bsky.social has Myanmar content. @liasciortino.bsky.social & Linn Lat Tar Yar edited "Living the Coup: Collective Diary of Daily Life in Myanmar" ('25) @SEAJunction obor.or.id/living-the-c...
October 29, 2025 at 5:55 AM
13. "The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia's Struggle Against Autocracy and Beijing" (2025) by @jwassers.bsky.social has Myanmar content. @liasciortino.bsky.social & Linn Lat Tar Yar edited "Living the Coup: Collective Diary of Daily Life in Myanmar" ('25) @SEAJunction obor.or.id/living-the-c...
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7. Burma resource watcher @clarammond.bsky.social wrote an extraordinary political travel book, “On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey through Occupied Myanmar” (2024) which follows a trajectory of railway lines (neglected, built with forced labor) to reveal decades of military misrule & abuse.
October 29, 2025 at 5:55 AM
7. Burma resource watcher @clarammond.bsky.social wrote an extraordinary political travel book, “On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey through Occupied Myanmar” (2024) which follows a trajectory of railway lines (neglected, built with forced labor) to reveal decades of military misrule & abuse.
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1. This History Thread is about recent (2023-25) books on Burma (Myanmar.) It includes books on WW2, ethnic issues & the anti-coup revolution. A pre-order announcement of my new book "Where the Mithuns Are: Essays on War, Art and Beasts" is at the end. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar 📚
October 29, 2025 at 5:55 AM
1. This History Thread is about recent (2023-25) books on Burma (Myanmar.) It includes books on WW2, ethnic issues & the anti-coup revolution. A pre-order announcement of my new book "Where the Mithuns Are: Essays on War, Art and Beasts" is at the end. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar 📚
👇Speaking at LSE today at 5
After writing 2 essays for @jodemocracy.bsky.social together without meeting in person, Wichuta Teeratanabodee & I finally met yesterday, ahead of sharing a stage tomorrow at an LSE event www.lse.ac.uk/seac/events/... (she & I are collaborating on a 3rd commentary now, with a 3rd coauthor this time)
Tales of Two Cities: Prodemocracy Protests and Beijing’s Lengthening Shadow in Bangkok and Hong Kong, 2015-2025
www.lse.ac.uk
October 27, 2025 at 8:31 AM
👇Speaking at LSE today at 5
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Opps missed an event for Monday: 😅
LSE Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre host Wichuta Teearanabodee & @jwassers.bsky.social for talk:
"Tales of Two Cities: Prodeomcracy Protests and Beijing's Lengthening Shadow in Bangkok and Hong Kong, 2015-2025
That's all the events we have for this week.
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LSE Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre host Wichuta Teearanabodee & @jwassers.bsky.social for talk:
"Tales of Two Cities: Prodeomcracy Protests and Beijing's Lengthening Shadow in Bangkok and Hong Kong, 2015-2025
That's all the events we have for this week.
13/
October 26, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Opps missed an event for Monday: 😅
LSE Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre host Wichuta Teearanabodee & @jwassers.bsky.social for talk:
"Tales of Two Cities: Prodeomcracy Protests and Beijing's Lengthening Shadow in Bangkok and Hong Kong, 2015-2025
That's all the events we have for this week.
13/
LSE Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre host Wichuta Teearanabodee & @jwassers.bsky.social for talk:
"Tales of Two Cities: Prodeomcracy Protests and Beijing's Lengthening Shadow in Bangkok and Hong Kong, 2015-2025
That's all the events we have for this week.
13/
After writing 2 essays for @jodemocracy.bsky.social together without meeting in person, Wichuta Teeratanabodee & I finally met yesterday, ahead of sharing a stage tomorrow at an LSE event www.lse.ac.uk/seac/events/... (she & I are collaborating on a 3rd commentary now, with a 3rd coauthor this time)
Tales of Two Cities: Prodemocracy Protests and Beijing’s Lengthening Shadow in Bangkok and Hong Kong, 2015-2025
www.lse.ac.uk
October 26, 2025 at 4:18 PM
After writing 2 essays for @jodemocracy.bsky.social together without meeting in person, Wichuta Teeratanabodee & I finally met yesterday, ahead of sharing a stage tomorrow at an LSE event www.lse.ac.uk/seac/events/... (she & I are collaborating on a 3rd commentary now, with a 3rd coauthor this time)
Staying in Cambridge now with good people to see & talk to about things on my mind like Orwell, great views like this, in London tomorrow to meet up with people to chat & do this Milk Tea Alliance event at 5 www.lse.ac.uk/seac/events/...
October 26, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Staying in Cambridge now with good people to see & talk to about things on my mind like Orwell, great views like this, in London tomorrow to meet up with people to chat & do this Milk Tea Alliance event at 5 www.lse.ac.uk/seac/events/...
Very glad my book is displayed, literally, in the middle of Nowhere. Note: Nowhere books in The Hague focuses on Asia, but when I referred to liking a new book by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, the manager smiled & pulled a copy of No Straight Road Takes You There from the shelves to show the audience.
October 25, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Very glad my book is displayed, literally, in the middle of Nowhere. Note: Nowhere books in The Hague focuses on Asia, but when I referred to liking a new book by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, the manager smiled & pulled a copy of No Straight Road Takes You There from the shelves to show the audience.
Best mementoes ever for a book talk, courtesy of the branch of the Nowhere bookstore in The Hague, which proved an ideal place to talk about The Milk Tea Alliance last evening, very impressed by the way the event was handled & the varied & engaged group of people who came & the questions they asked
October 25, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Best mementoes ever for a book talk, courtesy of the branch of the Nowhere bookstore in The Hague, which proved an ideal place to talk about The Milk Tea Alliance last evening, very impressed by the way the event was handled & the varied & engaged group of people who came & the questions they asked
Visited The Hague’s branch of the Nowhere Bookstore yesterday and checking in out confirmed my sense that it’s an ideal place to talk about protests in Hong Kong, Thailand, and Burma—going back there at 6:30pm today to do a book launch on that topic
October 24, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Visited The Hague’s branch of the Nowhere Bookstore yesterday and checking in out confirmed my sense that it’s an ideal place to talk about protests in Hong Kong, Thailand, and Burma—going back there at 6:30pm today to do a book launch on that topic
On October 30 I’ll be speaking at UCI, about my new book on protests in East & Southeast Asia between 2019 & 2021—& will bring up contrasts & parallels to recent events in places like Nepal www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/e...
Youth Activism in Asia: From the Milk Tea Alliance of 2020-2021 to the Gen Z Protests of This Year
www.socsci.uci.edu
October 23, 2025 at 8:41 AM
On October 30 I’ll be speaking at UCI, about my new book on protests in East & Southeast Asia between 2019 & 2021—& will bring up contrasts & parallels to recent events in places like Nepal www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/e...
First talk in the Netherlands starting in 90 minutes here in Leiden 👇, with two in The Hague to follow on Thursday & Friday
October 22, 2025 at 12:21 PM
First talk in the Netherlands starting in 90 minutes here in Leiden 👇, with two in The Hague to follow on Thursday & Friday
On the train from Amsterdam to Leiden to give a talk there in around 2 1/2 hours, details 👇—talks tomorrow & Friday in The Hague, details here leidenasiacentre.nl/event/jeffre... & here docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... & then on Monday I’ll be part of this LSE event www.lse.ac.uk/seac/events/...
October 22, 2025 at 11:18 AM
On the train from Amsterdam to Leiden to give a talk there in around 2 1/2 hours, details 👇—talks tomorrow & Friday in The Hague, details here leidenasiacentre.nl/event/jeffre... & here docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... & then on Monday I’ll be part of this LSE event www.lse.ac.uk/seac/events/...