Andrew J. Nathan, the Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, spoke on a Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs podcast about being “Banned in China.” Professor Nathan, who has not been issued a visa to travel to China since 2001, talked with the Carnegie Council’s Senior Program Director Devin T. Stewart on an August 15, 2018 episode about the travel restrictions and censorship that scholars and journalists may face in China.
“My story—and Perry Link, who can’t get a visa, and a number of other cases that we could discuss—kind of sends a message to other scholars that their access to China could be cut off,” Professor Nathan said. “It hasn’t really been a serious problem for me, but it can be a very serious problem for a younger scholar or for a scholar whose research work is configured in such a way that they really have to be there to do it.”
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