Jeffrey Wasserstrom at UC Irvine

Join the University of California, Irvine for a panel on writing for and engaging broad audiences, featuring Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow and Jeffrey Wasserstrom.

The focus will be on the role of interviews with and profiles of individuals in two new books on contemporary issues that were published in the spring: Tuhus-Dubrow’s Atomic Dreams: The New Nuclear Evangelists and the Fight for the Future of Energy and Wasserstrom’s The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia’s Struggle Against Autocracy and Beijing.

The panel will be moderated by Amy Wilentz, professor emerita of English and Literary Journalism.

135 Humanities Instructional Building
UC Irvine School of Humanities
Irvine, CA 92697

The political situations in Burma, Thailand, and Hong Kong are radically different. Yet, many young activists and exiles from these regions feel that their struggles are connected. How do these activists, each facing their unique situations, find common ground and sustain one another? For The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia’s Struggle Against Autocracy and Beijing, historian Jeffrey Wasserstrom traveled globally to interview members of this loosely constituted alliance, finding them united by the rising influence of a common adversary—the Chinese Communist Party.

“A story of resilient defiance against not just local oppression but the expanding shadow of Xi Jinping’s China—a defining battle of the twenty-first century.” —Evan Osnos

Learn more about The Milk Tea Alliance