Perry Link is Chancellorial Chair Professor for Innovative Teaching
Comparative Literature & Foreign Languages in College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at University of California, Riverside

University of California, Riverside

The University of California, Riverside, commonly known as UCR or UC Riverside, is a public research university and one of the ten general campuses of the University of California system. UCR is consistently ranked as one of the most ethnically and economically diverse universities in the United...

 and Emeritus Professor of East Asian Studies at Princeton University

Princeton University

Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

. He specializes in modern Chinese literature and Chinese language. Professor Link is a Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

 alumnus who received his B.A. in 1966 and his Ph.D. in 1976.

Tiananmen Papers

Professor Link has translated many Chinese stories, writings and poems into English. Along with Andrew J. Nathan

Andrew J. Nathan

Andrew J. Nathan is a professor of political science at Columbia University. He specializes in Chinese politics, foreign policy, human rights and political culture. Nathan attended Harvard University, where he earned a B.A. in history, an M.A. in East Asian Studies, and a Ph.D. in Political Science...

, he translated the Tiananmen Papers

Tiananmen Papers

The Tiananmen Papers was first published in English in January 2001 by PublicAffairs. The extended Chinese version of this book was published in April that same year under the title 中國六四真相 by Mirror Books in Hong Kong...

, which detailed the governmental response to the 1989 democracy protests

Tiananmen Square protests of 1989

The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, also known as the June Fourth Incident in Chinese , were a series of demonstrations in and near Tiananmen Square in Beijing in the People's Republic of China beginning on 15 April 1989...

. 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.

Publications

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

Charter 08

Charter 08 is a manifesto initially signed by over 350 Chinese intellectuals and human rights activists. It was published on 10 December 2008, the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopting name and style from the anti-Soviet Charter 77 issued by dissidents in...

 manifesto in January 2009.
He has also written an article entitled "Legacy of a Maoist Injustice", which was published on July 18, 2007 by many major newspapers, including the Washington Post

External links

• Biography at UCR
• Biography at Princeton University
• Article describing Link's attempted entrance into China
• Article in TIME magazine mentioning Link's detention in Hong Kong
• Audio interview with Link on China's Charter '08
• Link author page and archive from The New York Review of Books
  The New York Review of Books
  The New York Review of Books is a fortnightly magazine with articles on literature, culture and current affairs. Published in New York City, it takes as its point of departure that the discussion of important books is itself an indispensable literary activity...