Jeffrey Wasserstrom at UC San Diego

Join UC San Diego’s 21st Century China Center for a conversation with Jeffrey Wasserstrom about the history, pattern, and role of cultural mobilization in youth activism.

Wasserstrom will draw on his books Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink and The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia’s Struggle Against Autocracy and Beijing to highlight how songs, slogans and symbols drive struggles for change. Focusing on Hong Kong, Thailand and Burma, he will also trace parallels to nearby movements, including China’s White Paper protests.

This public lecture series is organized by the 21st Century China Center at the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy.

This is a hybrid event

School of Global Policy and Strategy
Robinson Building 4, Dean’s Conference Room
La Jolla, CA 92093

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

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