Description
An examination of the shifts in politics and revolution in China over the last century
About the Author
WANG HUI is a Professor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Tsinghua University in Beijing, where he currently lives. He studied at Yangzhou University, Nanjing University, and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He has also been a visiting professor at NYU and other universities in the US. In 1989, he participated in the Tiananmen Square protests and was subsequently sent to a poor inland province for compulsory "reeducation" as punishment for his participation. He developed a leftist critique of government policy and came to be one of the leading proponents of the Chinese New Left in the 1990s, though Wang Hui did not choose this term. Wang was named as one of the top 100 public intellectuals in the world in 2008 by Foreign Policy.
Reviews
One of China's leading historians and most interesting and influential public intellectuals. -- Jeffrey Wasserstrom * Los Angeles Times *
A central figure among a group of writers and academics known collectively as the New Left. * New York Times Magazine *
Mobilizing lessons from a non-Western context to unpack the contested meanings of socialism and democracy ... Wang reminds us that China's socialist legacy, much like its long-standing participation in anti-imperialist struggles in the Global South, is not to be forgotten. Instead, it should be rigorously analyzed and critically re-appropriated as a means to reshape the contours of global justice. -- Fan Yang * Socialism and Democracy *
Wang's intervention into both Chinese- and English-language histories of China is both politically charged and theoretically rich, exploring the possibilities for equality and justice that were
created and then suppressed during this period in China's recent past. -- Zach Smith * Education About Asia *
Book Information
ISBN 9781781689066
Author Wang Hui
Format Paperback
Page Count 368
Imprint Verso Books
Publisher Verso Books
Weight(grams) 576g
Dimensions(mm) 235mm * 156mm * 28mm