Jeffrey Wasserstrom

Jeffrey Wasserstrom is the Chancellor’s Professor of History at UC Irvine and the author of such works as Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink (2020) and The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia’s Struggle Against Autocracy and Beijing (2025). He is now working on a book about George Orwell and Asia that is under contract with Princeton University Press.

Articles

King Lear Goes to China
Jeffrey Wasserstrom speaks with Xue Yiwei and Nan Z. Da about Shakespeare’s legacy in China.
Jeffrey WasserstromDec 5
- History
- Cultural Studies
Hope and Disillusionment
Jeffrey Wasserstrom reviews Clare Hammond’s “On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey Through Occupied Myanmar.”
Jeffrey WasserstromMar 10
- Politics
- Cultural Studies
Books for Biden: Reading Recommendations Linked to “Global China in an Anxious Age” (UC Irvine, February 25–26)
Jeffrey Wasserstrom and three participants in an upcoming event at UC Irvine recommend essential books on China to President Biden.
Jeffrey WasserstromFeb 4, 2022
Musical Madeleines: On “Long Players: Writers on the Albums that Shaped Them”
Contemporary authors select their most “cherished” albums.
Jeffrey WasserstromNov 8, 2021
- Music
Reading Havel in Hong Kong — and Arendt in Bangkok
Jeffrey Wasserstrom shares the Thai preface to his recent book "Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink."
Jeffrey WasserstromJan 25, 2021
Julia Lovell on the Monkey King’s Travels Across Borders: A Conversation
Jeffrey Wasserstrom talks with Julia Lovell about translating the foundational Chinese novel "Journey to the West."
Jeffrey WasserstromDec 10, 2020
On Reading Expansively in Confining Times: Ten New Non-Fiction Books Not About Plagues
Jeffrey WasserstromApr 16, 2020
Tom Lutz, By the Album
Jeffrey Wasserstrom interviews LARB Editor-in-Chief Tom Lutz about travel and its influence on his music.
Jeffrey WasserstromApr 1, 2019

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