Perry Link
Perry Link | |
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| Born | 1944 (age 79–80) |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Scientific career | |
| Thesis | The rise of modern popular fiction in Shanghai (1976) |
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Hanyu Pinyin | Lín Péiruì |
| Wade–Giles | Lin2 P'ei2-jui4 |
Eugene Perry Link, Jr. (
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. Link has been a Board Member of the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong (CFHK) since 2021. CFHK is a US-based non-profit organisation, which presses for the preservation of freedom, democracy, and international law in Hong Kong.[1]
Tiananmen Square
Link helped Chinese dissident Fang Lizhi and Fang's wife obtain refuge at the U.S. Embassy following the crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.[2] Fang remained at the embassy for a year until negotiations resulted in Fang's being allowed to leave and settle in the U.S.[2]
Link has translated many Chinese stories, writings and poems into English. Along with
Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents Club. He has been banned from the People's Republic of China since, however.[3]
Selected publications
Books
- Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies: Popular Fiction in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Cities (University of California Press, 1981).
- Evening Chats in Beijing (W.W. Norton, 1994), The Uses of Literature: Life in the Socialist Chinese Literary System (Princeton University Press, 2000).
- Banyang suibi 半洋隨筆 (Notes of a Semi-Foreigner; in Chinese) (Taipei: Sanminchubanshe, 1999).
- An Anatomy of Chinese: Rhythm, Metaphor, Politics (Harvard University Press, 2013).
- I Have No Enemies: The Life and Legacy of Liu Xiaobo with Wu Dazhi (Columbia University Press, 2023)
Translations
- Charter 08 manifesto (January 2009).
- Fang Lizhi, The Most Wanted Man In China: My Journey from Scientist to Enemy of the State (Henry Holt, 2015).[4]
- Liu Xiaobo, No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems (Harvard University Press, 2013).
References
- ^ "Our Leadership".
- ^ ISBN 978-1-5381-8725-8.
- ^ See Steven W. Mosher, Bully of Asia: Why 'China's Dream' is the New Threat to World Order (Regnery, 2017), p. 274
- ISBN 9781627794992.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Perry Link.
- Faculty page at UCR
- Biography at Princeton University
- Article describing Link's attempted entrance into China
- "It's Time to Get Real, Hong Kong's leaders must learn to put the territory's interests before their own". Archived from the original on 2008-12-02. 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
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