Wang Hui (intellectual)

Wang Hui (intellectual)

Wang Hui (zh-sp|s=汪晖|p=Wāng Huī) is a professor of Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Tsinghua University, Beijing. His researches focus on contemporary Chinese literature and thinking. He was the executive editor (with Huang Ping) of the influential magazine Dushu (读书, "Reading") from May 1996 to July 2007. [ [http://www.gmw.cn/01ds/2007-07/11/content_637621.htm "China Reading Weekly", July 10, 2007] ] The US magazine Foreign Policy named him as one of the top 100 public intellectuals in the world in May 2008. [ [http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4293 Foreign Policy: Top 100 Intellectuals] ]

Biography

Wang Hui was born in Yangzhou, Jiangsu province in 1959. He completed his undergraduate studies at Yangzhou University, and then graduate studies at Nanjing University and Chinese Academy of Social Sciences where he got his Ph.D. in 1988.

Wang Hui was a participant in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. Sent to compulsory "re-education" in a poor inland province - punishment for his participation, he developed a leftist critique of government policy. This came to be called "New Left" in the course of the 1990s, though Wang Hui did not choose this term:

ee also

*One China, Many Paths
*Chinese liberalism

References

External links

* [http://uselesstree.typepad.com/useless_tree/2006/10/new_left_or_old.html New Left or Old Mencius?]
* [http://www.cpiml.org/liberation/year_2004/october/Scenario_China.htm The Intellectual Scenario in China – 1990-2003]


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