Eugene Perry Link, Jr. (; born 1944) is Chancellorial Chair Professor for Innovative Teaching Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages in College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at the

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and

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of East Asian Studies at

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

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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.

Tiananmen Papers

Link has translated many Chinese stories, writings and poems into English. Along with

Andrew J. Nathan Andrew J. Nathan (; born 3 April 1943) 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. ...

, he translated the ''

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 (Pinyin: ''Zhōngguó Liùsì Zhēnxià ...

'', which detailed the governmental response to the 1989 democracy protests. In 1996, China

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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.

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),

' (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).

Translations

Charter 08 Charter 08 is a manifesto initially signed by 303 Chinese dissident intellectuals and human rights activists. It was published on 10 December 2008, the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopting its name and style from ...

manifesto (January 2009). *

Fang Lizhi Fang Lizhi (also Li-Zhi; February 12, 1936 – April 6, 2012) was a Chinese astrophysicist, vice-president of the University of Science and Technology of China, and activist whose liberal ideas inspired the pro-democracy student movement ...

, '' The Most Wanted Man In China: My Journey from Scientist to Enemy of the State'' (Henry Holt, 2015).. *

Liu Xiaobo Liu Xiaobo (; 28 December 1955 – 13 July 2017) was a Chinese writer, literary critic, human rights activist, philosopher and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who called for political reforms and was involved in campaigns to end communist one-par ...

,
No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems
' (Harvard University Press, 2013).

References

Notes

External links

Faculty page at UCRBiography at Princeton University
* Article in TIME magazine mentioning Link's detention in Hong Kong *
Audio interview with Link on China's Charter '08Link author page and archive
from ''

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