Wang Hui | |
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汪晖 | |
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Nationality | Chinese |
Education | Yangzhou Normal University (BA) Nanjing University (MA) Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (PhD) |
Era | 20th-/21st-century philosophy |
Movements in contemporary |
Chinese political thought |
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Wang Hui (Chinese: 汪晖; pinyin: Wāng Huī; Yangzhou, 10 October 1959) is a professor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Tsinghua University, Beijing. His researches focus on contemporary Chinese literature and intellectual history. 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] Wang Hui has been Visiting Professor at Harvard, Edinburgh, Bologna (Italy), Stanford, UCLA, Berkeley, and the University of Washington, among others. In March 2010, he appeared as the keynote speaker at the annual meeting for the Association for Asian Studies.[3]