The Hoover Project on China’s Global Sharp Power invites you to Tiananmen at 35 on Tuesday, June 4, 2024 from 4:00 - 5:30 pm PT in Stauffer Auditorium.
June 4, 2024 marks the thirty-fifth anniversary of the violent, military suppression of peaceful, student-led protests in Tiananmen Square and elsewhere across the People’s Republic of China. To commemorate this occasion, Rowena He, a historian of social movements in China, and Perry Link, the biographer of Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, will join Hoover William L. Clayton Senior Fellow Larry Diamond to reflect on the history and impact of June 4th, 1989 and the broader struggle for freedom and democracy in greater China.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Rowena He is a Senior Research Fellow of the Civitas Institute at the University of Texas Austin andauthor of Tiananmen Exiles: Voices of the Struggle for Democracy in China. Her research has been supported by Harvard’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, the National Humanities Center, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Her op-eds have appeared in the Washington Post, The Nation, The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, and The Wall Street Journal. A three-time recipient of Harvard University Certificate of Teaching Excellence, she was denied a work visa to return to her position as an Associate Professor of History at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Perry Link studied Western philosophy, Chinese language, and Chinese history at Harvard in the 1960s and early 1970s. Since then he has pursued a career at Princeton University and the University of California teaching and writing about modern Chinese language, literature, popular culture, and human rights. His latest book, co-authored with Wu Dazhi (pseudonym), is I Have No Enemies: the Life and Legacy of Liu Xiaobo (Columbia, 2023). He has written extensively on China in public media, especially The New York Review of Books.
Larry Diamond is the William L. Clayton Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, the Mosbacher Senior Fellow in Global Democracy at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), and a Bass University Fellow in Undergraduate Education at Stanford University. He is also professor, by courtesy, of political science and sociology at Stanford. He co-chairs the Hoover Institution’s programs on China’s Global Sharp Power and on Taiwan in the Indo-Pacific Region.
