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SUMMARY:Prof Jeff Wasserstrom (UC Irvine)\, China in Five Bookshops: A Qu
 intet of Travel Tales
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DESCRIPTION:China in Five Bookshops: A Quintet of Travel Tales\nProf Jeff
  Wasserstrom (UC Irvine)\n\nWednesday\, Oct 21\, 4pm\nSam Alex A112\n\nT
 his talk will use the speaker’s visits to unusual bookshops in five diff
 erent cities at five different periods to explore ways that the People’s
  Republic of China has changed since he began going there forty years ag
 o. The places described will include everything from a Shanghai establis
 hment he went to in the early 2010s that surprisingly had the slogan “Bi
 g Brother is Watching You” painted on its walls\, to a Hangzhou one that
  he went to earlier this year that has a photo booth just outside it tha
 t celebrates a story by Kafka\, to a Hong Kong one that is struggling to
  stay in business after two heads of it were recently accused of seditio
 n. At the end\, the speaker will describe some ways that the story of Ch
 inese bookstores can be enriched by bringing in inspiring developments t
 hat have been taking place lately outside of the PRC but have links to s
 ites that once existed inside that country’s borders.\n\nJeffrey Wassers
 trom is a Distinguished Professor of History at UC Irvine\, a former Lev
 erhulme Visiting Professor at Birkbeck College\, London\, and the author
 \, most recently\, of Everything You Wanted to Know About China* (*But W
 ere Afraid to Ask)\, which was published in the United Kingdom and Singa
 pore earlier this year by Bui Jones Books and will be out in other marke
 ts from Stanford University Press in 2027. For more information on Jeffr
 ey Wasserstrom's research\, see https://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile/?fac
 ultyId=5310.\n
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LOCATION:A112\, Samuel Alexander Building\, Manchester
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