Jeffrey Wasserstrom

At-a-Glance

Chancellor's Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine
Editor of Journal of Asian Studies
Author of "Student Protests in the 20th Century: The View from Shanghai"
Author of "Global Shanghai" (2009)
Author of "China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know" (first published 2010, second edition 2013)
Co-founder of The China Beat blog
Received a Ph.D from the University of California, Berkeley (1989)

Biography

Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom is an American historian and sinologist who holds the position of Chancellor's Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine, where he joined the faculty in 2006. He also serves as the editor of the Journal of Asian Studies.

Wasserstrom earned his B.A. from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1982, an M.

A. from Harvard University in 1984, and a Ph.D from the University of California, Berkeley in 1989.