Wang Hui (intellectual)
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Wang Hui (simplified Chinese: 汪晖; pinyin: 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.[1] The US magazine Foreign Policy named him as one of the top 100 public intellectuals in the world in May 2008.[2]
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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:
Actually, people like myself have always been reluctant to accept this label, pinned on us by our adversaries. Partly this is because we have no wish to be associated with the Cultural Revolution, or for that matter with what might be called the 'Old Left' of the reform-era CCP. But it is also because the term New Left is a Western one, with a very distinct set of connotations – generational and political – in Europe and America . Our historical context is Chinese, not Western, and it is doubtful whether a category imported so explicitly from the West could be helpful in today's China.[3]
