- 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 (withHuang Ping ) of the influential magazineDushu (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 magazineForeign 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 in1959 . He completed his undergraduate studies atYangzhou University , and then graduate studies atNanjing University andChinese 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
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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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