Perry Link is one of the world’s foremost scholars of Chinese language, literature, and political expression. Over a decades-long career, he has translated the works of dissidents like Liu Xiaobo, chronicled the 1989 Tiananmen movement, and introduced the influential ‘Anaconda in the Chandelier’ metaphor to describe self-censorship in China. In 1996, he was banned from entering Mainland China.
Link is a Professor Emeritus of East Asian Studies at Princeton University and currently holds
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