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Perry Link
Born1944 (age 79–80)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materHarvard University
Scientific career
Thesis The rise of modern popular fiction in Shanghai  (1976)

Eugene Perry Link, Jr. (born 1944) (Chinese: 林培瑞; pinyin: Lín Péiruì) is Chancellorial Chair Professor for Innovative Teaching Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages in College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at the University of California, Riverside and Emeritus Professor of East Asian Studies at Princeton University. He specializes in modern Chinese literature and Chinese language. Link is a Harvard University alumnus who received his B.A. in 1966 and his Ph.D. in 1976.

Tiananmen Papers

Link has translated many Chinese stories, writings and poems into English. Along with Andrew J. Nathan, he 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. He has been banned from the People's Republic of China since, however.[1]

Selected publications

Books

  • Banyang suibi 半洋隨筆 (Notes of a Semi-Foreigner; in Chinese) (Taipei: Sanminchubanshe, 1999).

Translations

  • Fang Lizhi, The most wanted man in China: My Journey from Scientist to Enemy of the State (Henry Holt, 2015).[2]

References

  • Link, Perry; Lu, Hanchao (2014). "Standing up for Liberty: A Conversation with Perry Link". The Chinese Historical Review. 21 (2): 162–177. {{cite journal}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)

Notes

  1. ^ See Steven W. Mosher, Bully of Asia: Why 'China's Dream' is the New Threat to World Order (Regnery, 2017), p. 274
  2. ^ ISBN 9781627794992.