Tammy Lai-Ming Ho offers a local’s view of a well-contextualised look at the territory’s once-unthinkable pro-democracy demonstrations

How Hong Kong’s rising “Yellow Economy” sustains its pro-democracy movement.

In a highly anticipated report, the complaints body offered a largely sympathetic view toward the force as political tensions heat up again.

Hong Kong remains on the brink as the government response to the COVID-19 crisis has deepened public grievances.

Judges alone cannot protect territory from Beijing's heavy-handed interventions

Hong Kong remains on the brink as the government response to the COVID-19 crisis has deepened public grievances.

Hong Kong has reported that it contained the coronavirus. Relaxed social distancing rules have filled bars and revived pro-democracy protests that were dormant since January due to the pandemic.

The protesters are too young to remember, or fear, Beijing’s brutality at Tiananmen Square. They see democracy as their birthright.

Chan was given a sixteen-month sentence in April for his role in the pro-democracy protests that began in 2014. While he remains imprisoned, his successors have taken to the streets.

A memoir and fervent call to arms from a key leader of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests, written with Jason Y Ng

Author Jeff Wasserstrom, a University of California professor, draws comparisons between 2014 and 2019 Hong Kong protests, and between police repression now and in China in 1989, but agrees with Mark...

The world is distracted and the public need saving. It is a strongman’s dream

The current crisis has exposed how little remains of the “one country, two systems” framework.

The leaders of the Chinese Communist Party—and local Hong Kong authorities who take their cues from Beijing—used the novel coronavirus pandemic as an excuse and opportunity to move against pro-demo...

Hong Kong's activists may seem vanquished, but the city has made fools of forecasters before says Jeffrey Wasserstrom

The leaders of the Chinese Communist Party—and local Hong Kong authorities who take their cues from Beijing—used the novel coronavirus pandemic as an excuse and opportunity to move against pro-demo...

The rise of Hong Kong is the story of a miraculous post-War boom, when Chinese refugees flocked to a small British colony, and, in less than fifty years, tra...

This interview was conducted shortly after Vigil: Hong Kong On The Brink by Jeffrey Wasserstrom was published in February: an excerpt from the...Read More

Four years later, it’s clear that the reforms advocated by 2014’s youth-led, pro-democracy protest movement won’t take shape.

A landmark comparative history of Europe and China that examines why the Industrial Revolution emerged in the West

Tiananmen without the massacre

Diplomatic Immunity?

Inside the protests, I heard a collective roar of rage against a government that has failed, by design, to represent its people.

Four years later, it’s clear that the reforms advocated by 2014’s youth-led, pro-democracy protest movement won’t take shape.

Lure of Chinese profits has led studios away from Hollywood's professed agenda

VIGIL takes you to the frontlines of the battle for democracy in China, helping readers truly understand what's at stake, and how China rules. The story of Hong Kong's struggles can also bring into...

Davin Wong had been a prominent face in the protest movement that has rocked the city over the past three months.

The brutal clampdown in Xinjiang represents an about-face from the communist party’s original approach to cultural differences, says professor of Chinese history Thomas S Mullaney

Protests in 1919 propelled the country toward modernity. One hundred years later, the warlord spirit is back in Beijing.

Spectres & Souls The following is part of a series focussed on China's long century of revolution, starting with the Wuchang Uprising in 1911 and the founding of the Chinese Communist Party in 1921....

More than a quarter of the country’s newspapers have closed since 2005. In places that lost a local paper, voters have become more polarized.

A new book explores the Chinese filmmakers, writers, and artists who are trying to uncover a past that the authorities would rather forget.

Available episodes of Jonathan Spence - Chinese Vistas

Minjie Chen on “Monkey King: Journey to the West” by Wu Cheng’en, translated by Julia Lovell....

Buy The Oxford History of Modern China by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

Buy The Oxford History of Modern China by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

The enclosed letter will be sent to all members of Congress in both the House and the Senate individually: For example: The Speaker of the House of Representatives The Honorable Nancy Pelosi H-232...

The state is enforcing a collective amnesia about not only recent political events but those that happened thousands of years ago

The best China books of 2021, recommended by Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Sinologist and Chancellor's Professor of History at UC Irvine.

The changing meaning of a massacre

At demonstrations against Thailand’s military government continued this weekend, protesters unveiled their newest tactic: Appropriating the three-fingered salute from the Hunger Games, which the...

Literature event by Cha: An Asian Literary Journal and PEN Hong Kong on Saturday, April 11 2020

The leaders of the Chinese Communist Party—and local Hong Kong authorities who take their cues from Beijing—used the novel coronavirus pandemic as an excuse and opportunity to move against pro-demo...

Censorship in the country is more complicated than many Westerners imagine.

NEW YORK, February 13, 2020 — Historian Jeffrey Wasserstrom, author of the new book Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink, describes how the "one country, two system...