Perry Link

E. Perry Link (born 1944) is Emeritus Professor of East Asian Studies at Princeton University, specializing in modern Chinese literature and Chinese language. Dr. Link is a Harvard University alumnus who received his B.A. in 1966 and his Ph.D. in 1976. He once taught at the University of California-Riverside. He has translated many Chinese stories, writings and poems into English. Along with Andrew J. Nathan, Link translated the Tiananmen Papers, which detailed the governmental response to the 1989 democracy protests. In 1996, China blacklisted Link, and he has been denied entrance ever since. In 2001, Link was detained and questioned upon arriving in Hong Kong because of his involvement in the Tiananmen Papers. After roughly one hour, he was allowed to enter Hong Kong where he spoke at the Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents Club.

His office at Princeton University was used in the filming of A Beautiful Mind.

Perry Link's publications include Evening Chats in Beijing (W.W. Norton, 1994), The Uses of Literature: Life in the Socialist Chinese Literary System (Princeton University Press, 2000), and Banyang suibi 半洋隨筆 (Notes of a Semi-Foreigner; in Chinese) (Taipei: Sanminchubanshe, 1999). He also translated the Charter 08 manifesto in January 2009.<ref>China's Charter 08

External links

• Biography at Princeton University
• Article describing Link's attempted entrance into China
• Article in TIME magazine mentioning Link's detention in Hong Kong
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• Audio interview with Link on China's Charter '08
• Link author page and archive from The New York Review of Books