Perry Link
Professor of Chinese Language and Literature
Princeton University
Perry Link is Professor of Chinese Language and Literature at Princeton University. He received his B.A. from Harvard in 1966 and his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1976. Professor Link specializes in 20th-century Chinese literature and has written widely on Chinese literature and culture. His publications include Evening Chats in Beijing (1993), a discussion of modern China as viewed through the eyes of Chinese intellectuals, and The Uses of Literature: Life in the Socialist Chinese Literary System (2000). Professor Link also co-edited The Tiananmen Papers, which provided an inside account of key leadership deliberations over the Tiananmen democracy protests in 1989. In addition to teaching at Princeton, Professor Link serves on the Board of Advisors of Beijing Spring, a monthly Chinese-language magazine dedicated to the promotion of human rights, democracy, and social justice in China.