Selected Publications by Perry Link
- Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies: Popular Fiction in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Cities. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981.
- Stubborn Weeds: Popular and Controversial Chinese Literature after the Cultural Revolution. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985.
- Roses and Thorns: The Second Blooming of the Hundred Flowers in Chinese Fiction, 1979–80. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.
- Unofficial China: Popular Culture and Thought in the People’s Republic. Co-edited with Richard P. Madsen and Paul Pickowicz. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1990.
- Evening Chats in Beijing. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1993.
- Banyang suibi 半洋隨筆 (Notes of a Semi-Foreigner). In Chinese. Taipei: Sanmin chubanshe, 1999.
- The Uses of Literature: Life in the Socialist Chinese Literary System. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000.
- Popular China: Unofficial Culture in a Globalizing Society. Co-edited with Paul G. Pickowicz and Richard P. Madsen. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001.
- The Tiananmen Papers: The Chinese Leadership’s Decision to Use Force against Their Own People—In Their Own Words. Co-edited with Andrew J. Nathan. New York: PublicAffairs, 2002.
- (ed.) Two Kinds of Truth: Stories and Reportage from China (by Liu Binyan). Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006.
- Liu Xiaobo’s Empty Chair: Chronicling the Reform Movement Beijing Fears Most; includes the full text of Charter 08 and other primary documents. New York: New York Review Books, 2011.
- No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems. Co-edited with Tienchi Martin-Liao and Liu Xia. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012.
- An Anatomy of Chinese: Rhythm, Metaphor, Politics. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013.
- Restless China. Co-editor with Richard P. Madsen and Paul G. Pickowicz. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2013.