Perry Link

Perry Link is Professor of East Asian Studies at Princeton. He is working on a book on rhythm, metaphor, and politics in contemporary Chinese language. (April 2008)

From the Review

April 3, 2008: He Would Have Changed China

Zhao Ziyang: Ruanjinzhong de tanhua (Captive Conversations) by Zong Fengming

November 16, 2006: Chinese Shadows

Love in a Fallen City by Eileen Chang,translated from the Chinese by Karen S. Kingsbury and Eileen Chang

Loud Sparrows: Contemporary Chinese Short-Shorts edited by Aili Mu, Julie Chiu, and Howard Goldblatt

Love and Revolution: A Novel about Song Qingling and Sun Yat-sen by Ping Lu, translated from the Chinese by Nancy Du

The Banquet Bug by Geling Yan

November 2, 2006: Shut Down in China (letter)

February 9, 2006: Liu Binyan (1925–2005)

February 24, 2005: China: Wiping Out the Truth

Zhongguo zhengfu ruhe kongzhi meiti (How the Chinese Government Controls the Media) a report by He Qinglian

July 17, 2003: On Leaving a Chinese Prison (letter)

April 11, 2002: China: The Anaconda in the Chandelier

September 20, 2001: Arrested in China

October 8, 1998: A Great Leap Backward?

Zhongguo de xianjing [China's Pitfall] by He Qinglian

October 17, 1996: The Hope for China

Science and Dissent in Post-Mao China: The Politics of Knowledge by H. Lyman Miller

June 9, 1994: The Old Man's New China

'Don't Force Us to Lie': The Struggle of Chinese Journalists in the Reform Era by Allison Liu Jernow

Sowing the Seeds of Democracy in China: Political Reform in the Deng Xiaoping Era by Merle Goldman

The Rise of China: How Economic Reform is Creating a New Superpower by William H. Overholt

April 8, 1993: An Unnatural Disaster

Lishi de yibufen (A Part of History) by Zheng Yi

Hongse Jinianbei (Red Memorial) by Zheng Yi

September 27, 1990: The Chinese Amnesia

June 14, 1990: Human Rights in China (letter)

June 29, 1989: The Chinese Intellectuals and the Revolt

February 2, 1989: China's Despair and China's Hope

Books by Perry Link

The Uses of Literature: Life in the Socialist Chinese Literary System (2000)
Pan Yang Sui Pi (1999)
Evening Chats in Beijing = [pei-Ching Yeh Hua]: Probing China's Predicament (1992)
Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies: Popular Fiction in Early Twentieth Century Chinese Cities (1981)