Born in 1959 in Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China, Hui Wang obtained a doctoral degree with his dissertation on Lu Xun at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. After serving as a researcher in the Institute of Literature at the same institution and a visiting fellow at Harvard University, he is currently a professor of Chinese literature at Tsinghua University in Beijing and the senior editor of the monthly Reading (Dushu). the most influential journal among Chinese intellectuals. A representative critical intellectual who grapples with the issue of modernity in China both academically and socially, he has penned Resistance against Despair: A Study of Lu Xun’s Mental Structure and “Call to Arms” and “Wandering” (Chinese; 1991), The Gradual Revolution: China’s Economic Reform Movement (English; 1994), Selected Writings of Hui Wang(Chinese; 1997), Dead Fire Comes Alive(Chinese; 2000), and The Origins of Contemporary Chinese Thought (Chinese; 2003), China’s New Order: Society, Politics, and Economy in Transition (English; 2003).
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