Perry Link, Translator of Nobel Laureate Lio Xiaobo

Join leading China scholar Perry Link for an evening of Chinese politics and poetry as he talks about China’s best-known dissident, Liu Xiaobo, recipient of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize.

In this event, Link, an author of numerous books on Chinese language, literature, and human rights in China, discusses his newest translation, No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems by Liu Xiaobo. He explains the difficulties of translating from Chinese, as well as why these poems and essays so outraged the Chinese government.