Wang Hui (intellectual)
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Wang Hui, a leading intellectual in China's 'Chinese New Left'. Co-editor of an influential magazine called Dushu.
Wang Hui was a participant in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. Sent to compulsory "re-education" a poor inland province - punishment for his participation in the massive 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, he developed a leftist critique of government policy. This came to be called New Left, though Wang Hui did not choose this term:
- Actually, people like myself have always been reluctant to accept this label, pinned on us by our adversaries. Partly this is because we have no wish to be associated with the Cultural Revolution, or for that matter with what might be called the 'Old Left' of the reform-era CCP. But it is also because the term New Left is a Western one, with a very distinct set of connotations – generational and political – in Europe and America . Our historical context is Chinese, not Western, and it is doubtful whether a category imported so explicitly from the West could be helpful in today's China.[1]
[edit] Source
- ^ One China, Many Paths, edited by Chaohua Wang, page 62
[edit] See also
- Wang Hui, 1632 - 1717, a Chinese landscape painter
- One China, Many Paths
- Chinese liberalism
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