Jeffrey Wasserstrom on tackling misconceptions about China
Jeffrey Wasserstrom on tackling misconceptions about China
- May 31, 2026
- History professor and Long Institute affiliate weighs in on The Wire China
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Jeffrey Wasserstrom, UC Irvine distinguished professor of history [Long Institute core faculty] said, “If there’s one takeaway, I hope readers will get, it is to look with suspicion at any claim about there being a singular set of Chinese values or Chinese ways of viewing the world. … there are multiple traditions and ways that people can draw on Chinese culture and China’s past. There are more cosmopolitan traditions in the Chinese past, more liberal, more culturally open than the current Xi Jinping order, which says there’s only one way to be Chinese.”
For the full story, please visit The Wire China.
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