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(as editor) Oxford History of Modern China (Oxford University Press, 2022)
Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink (Columbia Global Reports, 2020), with contributions by Amy Hawkins [out in a Thai translation from Sam Yan Press and in an update second edition just in the UK, published by Brixton Ink, as Vigil: The Struggle for Hong Kong, with new material by Amy Hawkins and Kris Cheng].
Philosophy and Social Issues; Five Studies.
Eight Juxtapositions: China through Imperfect Analogies from Mark Twain to Manchukuo (Penguin, 2016)
(as editor) The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China (Oxford University Press, 2016)
China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2010; and a 2013 second edition, with contributions by Maura Elizabeth Cunningham, out in Turkish, Korean, Indonesian and Chinese complex character translations; as well as a 2018 third edition, coauthored with Maura Elizabeth Cunningham)
Chinese Characters: Profiles of Fast-Changing Lives in a Fast-Changing Land, co-edited with Angilee Shah (University of California Press, 2012)
Global Shanghai, 1850-2010 (Routledge, 2009)
China's Brave New World--And Other Tales for Global Times (Indiana University Press, 2017)
Student Protests in Twentieth-Century China: The View from Shanghai (Stanford University Press, 1991);
Popular Protest and Political Culture in Modern China, co-editor (Westview Press, 1992 and 1994 second edition);
Human Rights and Revolutions, co-editor (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000 and 2007 second edition);
The 20th Century: A Retrospective, co-author (Westview Press, 2000);
Chinese Femininities/Chinese Masculinities: A Reader, co-editor (University of California Press, 2002);
Twentieth-Century China: New Approaches, editor (Routledge, 2003);
American Historical Association
Association for Asian Studies
Long Institute
Richard Alan Wasserstrom
educator
Richard Alan Wasserstrom, American educator.
Son of Alfred Howard and Gertrude (Kopp) Wasserstrom. Parents– Alfred Howard and Gertrude (Kopp) Wasserstrom. Married– Phyllis Ann Levin in 1957. Professor law and philosophy University of California at Los Angeles, 1967-1979.
Professor philosophy, chairman philosophy board University California, Santa Cruz, since 1979.
Bachelor of Laws, Stanford University, 1960.
Career
Instructor philosophy Stanford University, 1959-1960, assistant professor law and Philosophy, 1960-1962, assistant professor, associate professor law, 1962-1964. Once at UCI, from 2008 until 2018, I was editor of the Journal of Asian Studies. I returned to California to join UCI's History Department in 2006.
Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame Press, 1980. Master of Arts in Philosophy, University Michigan, 1958.
Doctor of Philosophy, University Michigan, 1960.
Editor:
Morality and the Law. Belmont, Calif.; Wadsworth Pub. Co., 1971. Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Tuskegee University, 1964-. Attorney civil rights division Justice Department, 1963-1964.
Visiting fellow All Souls College, Oxford University, 1970-1971.
Achievements
Richard Alan Wasserstrom has been listed as a noteworthy educator by Marquis Who's Who.
Works
Membership
Member regional selection committee Woodrow Wilson Foundation, 1962-1963, 64-65, Council for Philosophical Studies, 1964-1970.
Stanford; Stanford University Press, 1961. Member Alabama advisory committee United States Commission Civil Rights, 1965-1966. I am particularly interested in and have written about youth movements, cities, gender history, and dystopian fiction. I have been interviewed for broadcast media, including BBC news programs in the U.K. and in the U.S.
for public radio shows such as Morning Edition, The World, and Marketplace.
I was born in California and educated largely in the state, getting a B.A. from UC Santa Cruz and a Phd from Berkeley, while also earning a Master's from Harvard and spending a year apiece studying at the University of London, as an undergrad, and Fudan University in Shanghai, as a doctoral student.