Contemporary Chinese Thought and the Question of Modernity
"Contemporary Chinese Thought and the Question of Modernity" is an influential article of around 35,000 characters in length by Chinese intellectual historian and literary scholar Wang Hui, written in 1994 and published in left-wing literature journal Tianya in 1997.[1] It became the subject of intense debate and attention both for its methodology—an unusually socio-historical approach to intellectual history—and its expressed politics, which are critical of capitalist modernity.[1] According to academic Yue Gang, it is "a cornerstone in the transformation of contemporary Chinese thought" and "has become a benchmark for the New Left."[2]
References
- ^ a b Zhang Yongle. "No Forbidden Zone in Reading? Dushu and the Chinese Intelligentsia." New Left Review 49 (January/February 2008), 5-26.
- ^ Yue Gang. "Wang Hui." Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture. Ed. Edward L. Davis. London: Routledge, 2005.
See also
- Wang Hui. "Dangdai Zhongguo Sixiang Jingkuang yu Xiandaixing Wenti" ["Contemporary Chinese Thought and the Question of Modernity"]. Tianya 5 (1997).
- Wang Hui, tr. Rebecca E. Karl. "Contemporary Chinese Thought and the Question of Modernity." Social Text 55: Intellectual Politics in Post-Tiananmen China (1998): pp. 9–44.