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In this third public event presented in conjunction with the Spring 2021 course “Human Rights in China,” join Associate Professor Johanna Ransmeier and Pozen Visiting Professor Teng Biao as they convene a panel discussion on the events and impact of 1989: the Tiananmen Square protests, the Chinese Democracy Movement, and the Massacre.


Panelists:

  Andrew J. Nathan
  Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science, Columbia University


  Perry Link
  Chancellorial Chair for Teaching Across Disciplines, University of California, Riverside; 
  Emeritus Professor of East Asian Studies, Princeton University



  Louisa Lim 
  Award-winning journalist; author of The People’s Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited




  Wu’er Kaixi
  Student leader, Tiananmen Democracy Movement


 

Moderators/Discussants:

  Teng Biao
  Pozen Visiting Professor; academic lawyer and human rights activist



  Johanna Ransmeier
  Associate Professor of History and the College, University of Chicago

 


Presented in partnership with the Department of History and the Center for East Asian Studies.