Jeffrey Wasserstrom is chancellor’s professor of history at the University of California, Irvine. He has written extensively on protests and repression in China’s past, as well as many other topics in Chinese and world history. His most recent books are, as author, Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink (Columbia Global Reports, 2020), and, as editor, The Oxford History of Modern China (Oxford University Press, 2022). A regular contributor to newspapers, magazines, and literary reviews as well as academic journals, he is now working on a short book about the Milk Tea Alliance for Columbia Global Reports. He will spend spring 2023 as a Leverhulme Visiting Professor at Birkbeck College, University of London.