Wang Hui

Wang Hui is a professor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Tsinghua University in Beijing. In 1989, he was involved in the Tiananmen Square Protests and was subsequently exiled to a reeducation camp in Shaanxi province. His critique of government policy has emerged as a leading voice on the Chinese New Left. Wang was named as one of Foreign Policy’s top 100 public intellectuals in 2008. In 2013 he was awarded the Luca Pacioli Award.

After the party: an interview with Wang Hui

The luminary of China’s emergent “New Left” speaks to openDemocracy about the lessons of labour unrest, the Cultural Revolution as taboo, and post-party politics.

By En Liang Khong and Wang Hui

/ 13 Jan 2014