China One Country, Three Systems and the Limits on Freedom in Today’s PRC November 10, 2017 0 Written by Jeffrey Wasserstrom. When journalists interviewed me during the lead-up to the Chinese Communist Party’s 19th Congress, some grew frustrated by my unwillingness to make…
China Mao, Zhao and some “what ifs?” September 7, 2016 0 Written by Jeffrey Wasserstrom. I am always interested in counterfactual and other sorts of “what if” forays into speculation. I have often played the “what would…
China The Tiananmen crash: what just happened? October 29, 2013 0 Written by Jackie Sheehan. So far little has been said on the record about the crash of a jeep carrying three people into the marble…
Culture and Society June 4: Memories, Myths, and Memorials June 3, 2013 1 Written by Jackie Sheehan. It was 24 years ago today that 130,000 troops from the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) entered central Beijing to end the…