Chinese contradictions and ironies, 1997 to 2017

Jeffrey Wasserstrom is the editor of the Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China (2016), as well as the author of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know (originally published by OUP in 2010), a third edition of which, co-written with Maura Cunningham, will be published later this year. This post originally appeared on the OUPblog.