The life and legacy of the late Liu Xiaobo, a Chinese literary critic, human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, will be the focus of a talk presented by Perry Link at the next Modern China Lecture Series program.

Discussion of Link’s latest book, “I Have No Enemies: The Life and Legacy of Liu Xiaobo,” will take place in person beginning at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 20, at CSUSB’s College of Social and Behavioral Sciences building, room SB-210, and on Zoom at https://csusb.zoom.us/j/388207496.

The program is free and open to the public. No advance registration is required.

The publisher’s webpage says, “‘I Have No Enemies’ is the definitive biography of Liu Xiaobo, offering a meticulously researched account of the twists and turns of a remarkable life. Perry Link and Wu Dazhi explore Liu’s upbringing, immersion in classical Chinese poetry and philosophy, bold challenges to literary conformity, and involvement in democratic movements. They trace the lifelong evolution of his thinking and chronicle his persecution, incarcerat​​book cover “I Have No Enemies: The Life and Legacy of Liu Xiaobo”ion, and death.”

Link is no stranger to the CSUSB campus. The Chancellorial Chair for Teaching Across Disciplines and Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Chinese at UC Riverside and professor emeritus of East Asian Studies at Princeton University has presented talks at past programs in the Modern China Lecture Series.

Link has published in the fields of modern Chinese language, literature, popular culture, intellectual history, art and politics. He has translated numerous books and articles by prominent Chinese voices, including Xiaobo, Ai Weiwei and Fang Lizhi.

The Modern China Lecture Series was initiated to promote awareness of important issues related to China for those on the CSUSB campus and in the community.

In the series of more than 100 lectures, workshops, film screenings and roundtable forums since January 2014, China scholars from UC San Diego, UC Riverside, the Claremont Colleges, UCLA, USC, UC Irvine, Columbia, Oxford and other institutions have visited the CSUSB campus to share their expertise and opinions.

Speakers in the series have included specialists in history, economics, political science, philosophy, finance, security studies, literature, anthropology and other fields. Recordings of past talks can be found at the CSUSB Modern China Lecture Series channel on YouTube.

The next scheduled speaker in the series is Jane Chin Davidson, CSUSB professor of art history, who will share her presentation at 2:30 p.m. May 8, in person and on Zoom.

The series cosponsors this year are the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences and the Intellectual Life Fund. Series organizers are Jeremy Murray, professor of history, and Alexander Serrano, a UC Santa Barbara doctoral candidate.

For more information on the Modern China Lecture Series, contact Murray, associate professor of history, at jmurray@csusb.edu.