Our aim is to highlight events (Panels, Protests, Fundraisers etc) related to the struggles associated with the #MilkTeaAlliance https://linktr.ee/MilkTeaAllianceCalendar
![[台湾季·在世界之间] 对话 華志堅(Jeffrey Wasserstrom)
Aug
12
Wednesday 12 August
19:00 - 20:30 GMT-7
Unbound Books and Coffee 格外书店
Taiwan Across Cities arrives in San Francisco for its second stop.
The first event in San Francisco features Jeffrey Wasserstrom, a historian whose work focuses on modern China, Taiwan, and Asian history.
His recent book, The Milk Tea Alliance (published in Chinese by Acropolis Publish), takes the cross-border connections among youth movements across Asia as its starting point, tracing the democratic movements of Taiwan, Hong Kong, Thailand, and Myanmar. While each place has its own distinct historical background and political circumstances, successive waves of social movements have seen younger generations supporting one another through online networks, culture, and public discussion. In this sense, the “Milk Tea Alliance” has become a symbol of democratic solidarity and imagination that transcends national borders.
Yet these cross-border connections did not emerge overnight. They are rooted in a much longer history of modern Asia.
Drawing on the questions raised in The Milk Tea Alliance, this talk looks back over the past 120 years of change in East and Southeast Asia, exploring how democratization, social movements, gender relations, and the rise of global cities have shaped societies across the region. By comparing the historical experiences of China, Japan, Hong Kong, Thailand, and Taiwan, Jeffrey Wasserstrom invites us to see how these places have continuously influenced one another, rather than developing in isolation.
Since the 1990s, Taiwan has increasingly become an important point of reference in Asia through its democratic development, social movements, and advances in gender equality, while also enriching the narratives through which Asia understands itself.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pelcx6335zuov2bi6kday2q6/bafkreieikfstdfshjot4e644swsldgyv7ezko2obkgviz2tlioxwr2lnwe)
Our aim is to highlight events (Panels, Protests, Fundraisers etc) related to the struggles associated with the #MilkTeaAlliance https://linktr.ee/MilkTeaAllianceCalendar