Chaohua Wang

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Chaohua Wang is an essayist and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in modern Chinese literature in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Wang is the daughter of a former prominent professor of Chinese literature at Beijing University, and during the Cultural revolution was a member of the Red Guards. In 1989 she was a Ph.D. student in Chinese literature at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. She was a member of the standing committee of the Beijing Autonomous Association of College Students in the spring of 1989 during the demonstrations in Tiananmen Square, and as a result spent six months on the Chinese government's "21 Most Wanted Beijing Student Leaders" list. She came to the U.S. in 1991.

Wang is the editor of One China, Many Paths, a collection of essays by contemporary Chinese intellectuals published by Verso in 2005.