MAY 27: "CHINA IN THE AGE OF AMBITION" WITH EVAN OSNOS & JEFF WASSERSTROM
Department: Literary Journalism
Date and Time: May 27, 2014 | 5:30 PM-7:00 PMEvent Location: HUMANITIES GATEWAY 1030
Event Details
THE CONVERSATIONS ON WRITING & PUBLIC LIFE SERIES PRESENTS:
"CHINA IN THE AGE OF AMBITION"
WITH EVAN OSNOS &
JEFF WASSERSTROM
TUESDAY, MAY 27, 2014
5:30-7 PM
HUMANITIES GATEWAY 1030
UC IRVINE SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES
FREE, OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
BOOK SALE AND SIGNING TO FOLLOW.
SPONSORED BY THE LITERARY JOURNALISM PROGRAM AND THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY, WITH SUPPORT FROM THE OFFICE OF THE PROVOST. FOR MORE INFORMATION OR FOR DISABILITY ACCOMMODATIONS, CONTACT PATRICIA PIERSON (PIERSONP@UCI.EDU) OR CALL (949) 824-6876.
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Parking location: Mesa Parking Structure
(14A on the map here: http://communications.uci.edu//documents/pdf/UCI_12_map_vis_pkg.pdf)
Event location: Humanities Gateway (Building 611 on the map here: http://communications.uci.edu//documents/pdf/UCI_13_map_campus.pdf)
ABOUT EVAN OSNOS:
Evan Osnos joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2008. He is a correspondent in Washington, D.C. who writes about politics and foreign affairs. He is the author of "Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, May 2014). Based on eight years of living in Beijing, the book traces the rise of the individual in China, and the clash between aspiration and authoritarianism. He was the China Correspondent at The New Yorker magazine from 2008 to 2013. He is a contributor to This American Life on public radio, and Frontline, the PBS series. Prior to The New Yorker, he worked as the Beijing bureau chief of the Chicago Tribune, where he contributed to a series that won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. He has received the Asia Society’s Osborn Elliott Prize for Excellence in Journalism on Asia, the Livingston Award for Young Journalists, and a Mirror Award for profile-writing. Before his appointment in China, he worked in the Middle East, reporting mostly from Iraq. www.evanosnos.com
@eosnos
ABOUT JEFF WASSERSTROM:
Jeff Wasserstrom is a Chancellor's Professor of History at UC Irvine specializing in Chinese history. His research and writing cover a wide range of topics, from the gendered symbolism of revolutions to patterns of student protest, and from the way that globalization affects urban life and popular culture to American images of Asia. He is the author of several books, including Student Protests in Twentieth-Century China: The View from Shanghai (Stanford, 1991); Global Shanghai, 1850-2010 (Routledge, 2009); and China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2010, updated edition 2013). He contributes to the LA Review of Books, the Huffington Post, and the China Beat.
@jwassers