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And, on Sept. 21, Dr. Perry Link, a professor of Chinese at Princeton University, will discuss human rights as an issue in China's relationship with the West, historically and at present. First, we seek to challenge our own thinking in the West about China's needs and interests as a sovereign state. Westerners are woefully ignorant, not only of China's rich past, but of its current diversity and complexity. Contrary to prevailing assumptions, China is not a monolithic place, and people with ties to and interests in China have widely divergent views on such issues as China's place in the world market, the threat that Communist China poses to the non-Communist West, and the extent to which China should observe Western conceptions of basic civil rights. For more information, please call the History Department at 824-6310.