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
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
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/...
First time I’ve had a book reviewed in @foreignaffairs.com so especially pleased by having this short take on The Milk Tea Alliance www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/milk... to go with earlier ones in Cha, The Inside Story, & @newstatesman1913.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
October 21, 2025 at 2:03 PM
First time I’ve had a book reviewed in @foreignaffairs.com so especially pleased by having this short take on The Milk Tea Alliance www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/milk... to go with earlier ones in Cha, The Inside Story, & @newstatesman1913.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
Happy to get an advance copy of this book (due out early next year), as I’ve been looking forward to reading it due liking various magazine pieces I’ve read by the author, @yilingliu95.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Happy to get an advance copy of this book (due out early next year), as I’ve been looking forward to reading it due liking various magazine pieces I’ve read by the author, @yilingliu95.bsky.social
Looking forward to this October 24 launch event at the Hague’s Nowhere bookshop www.linkedin.com/posts/nowher... that’ll be moderated by Pui Chi Lai of the University of Leiden, my first event at a China outside of China bookstore after my June 10 publication day talk at JF Books in DC
October 12, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Looking forward to this October 24 launch event at the Hague’s Nowhere bookshop www.linkedin.com/posts/nowher... that’ll be moderated by Pui Chi Lai of the University of Leiden, my first event at a China outside of China bookstore after my June 10 publication day talk at JF Books in DC
Ahead of my first events in Europe (Oct 22, 23, 24 in Holland & London on the 27th) related to my new book on youth protests in East & Southeast Asia from 2019 to 2021 (& beyond), reposting a couple of favorite reviews, this by @katiestallard.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/culture/book... & 👇
October 11, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Ahead of my first events in Europe (Oct 22, 23, 24 in Holland & London on the 27th) related to my new book on youth protests in East & Southeast Asia from 2019 to 2021 (& beyond), reposting a couple of favorite reviews, this by @katiestallard.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/culture/book... & 👇
👇 Thrilled to get this latest Good Reads review of The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia’s Struggle Against Autocracy and Beijing, published June 10 by @columbiagr.bsky.social h
October 8, 2025 at 1:26 AM
👇 Thrilled to get this latest Good Reads review of The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia’s Struggle Against Autocracy and Beijing, published June 10 by @columbiagr.bsky.social h
Some travel coming up soon, so nice to have airplane & train reading sorted due to today’s mail, thanks @fsgbooks.bsky.social for the advance copy of the new @leaypi.bsky.social book (that’s out in the UK & getting strong reviews and coming out here in November)
September 23, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Some travel coming up soon, so nice to have airplane & train reading sorted due to today’s mail, thanks @fsgbooks.bsky.social for the advance copy of the new @leaypi.bsky.social book (that’s out in the UK & getting strong reviews and coming out here in November)
I'm a fan of Junko Terao's "In Asia" @internazionale.it newsletter www.internazionale.it/notizie/2020... so glad to be quoted in today's edition; see Google translated English language version of the relevant part below + screen shot from the interview I mention @ the end www.bbc.com/news/av/worl...
September 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I'm a fan of Junko Terao's "In Asia" @internazionale.it newsletter www.internazionale.it/notizie/2020... so glad to be quoted in today's edition; see Google translated English language version of the relevant part below + screen shot from the interview I mention @ the end www.bbc.com/news/av/worl...
My Oct 1-3 events: Oct 1, Boston, noon, Harvard, on Hong Kong fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/criti... + 5pm BU roundtable on cities www.bu.edu/asian/2025/0... then Oct 2 at Penn on protests in E. and SE Asia cscc.sas.upenn.edu/events/2025/... and Oct 3, NYU, with @burrata.bsky.social 👇
September 10, 2025 at 9:16 PM
My Oct 1-3 events: Oct 1, Boston, noon, Harvard, on Hong Kong fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/criti... + 5pm BU roundtable on cities www.bu.edu/asian/2025/0... then Oct 2 at Penn on protests in E. and SE Asia cscc.sas.upenn.edu/events/2025/... and Oct 3, NYU, with @burrata.bsky.social 👇
Looking forward to my Oct 27 LSE event w/Wichuta Teeratanabodee. She & I have been doing related research & even co-written two articles for @jodemocracy.bsky.social, but we've never done a joint event before & in fact our meeting in person instead of via ZOOM will be a bit before we share a stage.
September 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Looking forward to my Oct 27 LSE event w/Wichuta Teeratanabodee. She & I have been doing related research & even co-written two articles for @jodemocracy.bsky.social, but we've never done a joint event before & in fact our meeting in person instead of via ZOOM will be a bit before we share a stage.
I've written for @thetls.bsky.social for decades, but only once before inspired a letter. Very nicely, they let me respond at length (below is just the first half of my letter) & move on from Orwell, my piece's focus, to @margaretatwood.bsky.social & Jack London www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
August 13, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I've written for @thetls.bsky.social for decades, but only once before inspired a letter. Very nicely, they let me respond at length (below is just the first half of my letter) & move on from Orwell, my piece's focus, to @margaretatwood.bsky.social & Jack London www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
Wayne Wong wrote a lovely, heartfelt essay that discusses The Milk Tea Alliance (published by @columbiagr.bsky.social in June); the 2020 CGR edition of Vigil; the 2025 @brixtonink.bsky.social updated for the UK edition of Vigil; & how the 3 texts are interrelated chajournal.blog/2025/08/06/w...
August 7, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Wayne Wong wrote a lovely, heartfelt essay that discusses The Milk Tea Alliance (published by @columbiagr.bsky.social in June); the 2020 CGR edition of Vigil; the 2025 @brixtonink.bsky.social updated for the UK edition of Vigil; & how the 3 texts are interrelated chajournal.blog/2025/08/06/w...
Wayne Wong captures so effectively what the new pieces by Amy Hawkins and Kris Cheng, specially written for the 2025 @brixtonink.bsky.social updated edition of Vigil add to the book, and he does it with poetic turns of phrase
August 7, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Wayne Wong captures so effectively what the new pieces by Amy Hawkins and Kris Cheng, specially written for the 2025 @brixtonink.bsky.social updated edition of Vigil add to the book, and he does it with poetic turns of phrase
Love the look of the @cwclub.bsky.social Bookstore, my talk here begins in 20 minutes
July 31, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Love the look of the @cwclub.bsky.social Bookstore, my talk here begins in 20 minutes
Wow, another great month of events at JF Books in DC, if I lived there I’d definitely want to catch both the comparing gilded ages dialogue between @ewong.bsky.social & @eosnos.bsky.social & the Nan Z. Da talk about her King Lear book (recently published with one of the blurbs from me)
July 29, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Wow, another great month of events at JF Books in DC, if I lived there I’d definitely want to catch both the comparing gilded ages dialogue between @ewong.bsky.social & @eosnos.bsky.social & the Nan Z. Da talk about her King Lear book (recently published with one of the blurbs from me)
Hybrid event on my new book starts in 6 hours (4pm Pacific time, 7pm East Coast), link to go to to register www.hoover.org/events/milk-...
July 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Hybrid event on my new book starts in 6 hours (4pm Pacific time, 7pm East Coast), link to go to to register www.hoover.org/events/milk-...
🧵 On my short book on resistance and repression in East and Southeast Asia on the eve of its official 24 July UK release date (it came out in the U.S. June 10), below is the short review of it that just appeared on the New Statesman's website (link here www.newstatesman.com/culture/book... )
July 23, 2025 at 8:36 PM
🧵 On my short book on resistance and repression in East and Southeast Asia on the eve of its official 24 July UK release date (it came out in the U.S. June 10), below is the short review of it that just appeared on the New Statesman's website (link here www.newstatesman.com/culture/book... )
I'm not sure Blue Nippon is the best book about jazz I've ever read, but it might be (and worth reading if you head to Japan) www.dukeupress.edu/blue-nippon, and it may have the best and most unexpected opening few paragraphs of any book based on a doctoral dissertation I've ever read....
July 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I'm not sure Blue Nippon is the best book about jazz I've ever read, but it might be (and worth reading if you head to Japan) www.dukeupress.edu/blue-nippon, and it may have the best and most unexpected opening few paragraphs of any book based on a doctoral dissertation I've ever read....
Thrilled to see my new book on youth activism in Thailand, Hong Kong, and Burma ( bookshop.org/p/books/the-... ) featured in the latest newsletter of a great Chicago cultural institution: @seminarycoopbooks.bsky.social —h/t @susanbk.bsky.social cc @yangyangcheng.bsky.social @astanley711.bsky.social
July 23, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Thrilled to see my new book on youth activism in Thailand, Hong Kong, and Burma ( bookshop.org/p/books/the-... ) featured in the latest newsletter of a great Chicago cultural institution: @seminarycoopbooks.bsky.social —h/t @susanbk.bsky.social cc @yangyangcheng.bsky.social @astanley711.bsky.social
Better image of Wende event montage www.youtube.com/watch?app=de... top left photos I took in Hong Kong in 2014 & 2018 (2nd shows Joshua Wong w/2 Pussy Riot members), next comes Agnes Chow as Katniss E. & a Thai artifact I saw in an Amsterdam archive (slogan says "Let It End w/This Generation!")
July 17, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Better image of Wende event montage www.youtube.com/watch?app=de... top left photos I took in Hong Kong in 2014 & 2018 (2nd shows Joshua Wong w/2 Pussy Riot members), next comes Agnes Chow as Katniss E. & a Thai artifact I saw in an Amsterdam archive (slogan says "Let It End w/This Generation!")