The Silence of China's Intellectuals
May 11, 2001 Perry Link
Teaches modern Chinese language and literature at Princeton University and is the author of The Uses of Literature: Life in the Socialist Chinese Literary System.
A toxic mix of mutual distrust and rising nationalism – with Taiwan the immediate flash point – has brought Sino-American relations to their lowest point in decades. While neither China nor the United States appears to want a military conflict, we asked PS commentators whether the two powers might nonetheless stumble into one.