‘Tiananmen Papers’ editor to speak

China expert Perry Link, co-editor of the controversial book on China’s 1989 Tiananmen Square incident will give a free public lecture titled “Editing ‘The Tiananmen Papers'”, April 27.

The lecture is planned at 4 p.m. in 2650 Mosse Humanities Building, 455 N. Park St.

“The Tiananmen Papers” claims to reveal the secret deliberations among top Chinese leaders during the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 through documents compiled and passed on to the editors by a Chinese civil servant whose identity remains hidden behind a pseudonym.

“The Tiananmen Papers” has been denounced by the Chinese government as a fraud. The lecture provides an opportunity to hear the co-editor’s own story about the authenticity of the materials and how this book came into being.

Link is currently a professor of East Asian Studies at Princeton University where he teaches modern Chinese language, literature, and cultural history. The author of several books about China, he has written extensively on opposition movements in China.

Link also will appear at a book signing and reception at the University Bookstore, 711 State St., Saturday, April 28, at 1:30 p.m. Link’s lecture is co-sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies and the East Asian Languages and Literature Department with funding from the University Lectures Committee at UW–Madison.

For more information, contact Hope Rennie, Center for East Asian Studies at UW–Madison, (608) 262-3643, rhope@facstaff.wisc.edu.