Jeffrey Wasserstrom
Department of History, University of California Irvine
Chinese Dreams and Chinese Nightmares, 1989 to 2014
February 4th, Wednesday at 2:10pm-4:00pm
Room IAB 1219
How has the Chinese Communist Party stayed in power so long after similar organizations fell in Eastern and Central Europe? Are the strategies that it has been using to deal with protest since 1989 still effective? What makes Xi Jinping similar to and different from his immediate predecessors? These are the sorts of questions the speaker will address, focusing in part on the different sorts of dreams that inspire hope and nightmares that cause anxiety among various groups within the People’s Republic of China, from officials in Beijing, to students in Hong Kong, from migrant workers in Dongguan to Uyghurs in Urumqi.