SCOM Talk Series 30: Looking Across the Pacific: American Images of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Images of America
20 September 2017
Professor Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Chancellor’s Professor of History, University of California, Irvine, gave a talk in the SCOM Talk Series 30 on 20 Sep 2017.
Professor Wasserstrom has been visiting Hong Kong regularly in the past 30 years. According to his observation and his experience of living in Shanghai, he shared the Americans’ views on Hong Kong have changed over the past few decades. During the Q&A session, Professor Wasserstrom answered questions from the audience and shared his opinions towards various political issues of Hong Kong and the United States. The attending professors and students were greatly inspired by his sharing as they gained better understanding of how the Americans looked at Hong Kong.