Resident Fellows

Wang Hui || Spring 2009

Wang Hui is professor of Chinese language and literature at Tsinghua University. Sent to compulsory "re-education" in a poor inland province for his role in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, Wang Hui is a leading member of China’s “New Left” movement and a past editor of Dushu, one of China’s most influential literary journals. In May of 2008, Foreign Policy named him as one of the top 100 public intellectuals in the world. In China’s New Order: Society, Politics, and Economy in Transition (2006), Wang Hui offers a powerful analysis of China and the transformations it has undertaken since 1989, critiquing the country’s economic reforms, social polarization, and political corruption. His most recent book, The End of the Revolution: China and the Limits of Modernity, will be available in July, 2009.

Public Programs

While at Berkeley, Wang Hui was hosted by the department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. He also delivered a public lecture entitled “In An Age of of Depoliticization: Some Reflections on Contemporary Intellectual Debates in China Since the 1990s” on Wednesday, April 1, 2009 at 4:00 pm in the Geballe Room (220 Stephens Hall). Following the lecture he participated in a dialogue with Martin Jay (History), Pheng Cheah (Rhetoric), and Colleen Lye (English).

Links

“China’s New Leftist,” in the New York Times Magazine (2006)

“Depoliticized Politics, From East to West,” in the New Left Review (2006)

Interview in the New Left Review (2000)