Edited by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Chancellor's Professor of History, University of California, Irvine

Jeffrey Wasserstrom is Chancellor's Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine, and Editor of the Journal of Asian Studies. He has edited a number of books on China and is the author of four: Student Protests in Twentieth Century China: The View from Shanghai (1991), China's Brave New World-And Other Tales for Global Times (2007), Global Shanghai, 1850-2010 (2009), and China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know (2010; new ed. 2013), the last of which was also published by Oxford University Press. A co-founder of and contributing editor to the influential China Beat blog (2008-2012), he is a regular contributor to the press, including the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, and he co-edits the Asia section of the Los Angeles Review of Books. A member of the Board of Directors of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, he has been traveling to China regularly since the 1980s.

Jeffrey Wasserstrom, University of California, Irvine
Anne Gerritsen, University of Warwick
Stephen R. Platt, University of Massachusetts
Robert Bickers, University of Bristol
Peter Zarrow, Academia Sinica, Taipei
James Carter, St Joseph's University
Rana Mitter, University of Oxford
S. A. Smith, University of Oxford
Richard Curt Kraus, University of Oregon
Timothy Cheek, University of British Columbia
Kate Merkel-Hess, Penn State University
William A. Callahan, University of Manchester
Ian Johnson, freelance journalist

"This finely crafted volume has much to offer to readers, no matter how familiar they are with modern Chinese history ... the wealth of images together with the rich chapters make this history of modern China one of a kind." - Jennifer Altehenger, History Today

"An excellent introduction to the history of modern China for the general reader and student alike ... The illustrations are excellent and help to bring the text to life with further colour (in both senses of the word) and detail. I am sure it will prove popular with students and the general public alike." - Tim Chamberlain, LSE Review of Books

"the best place to start for those who wish to get a handle on modern China." - Asian Review of Books