Wang Hui
"We still believe that ideas matter."
WANG Hui is the Distinguished Professor in the School of Humanities at Tsinghua University and Director of the Tsinghua Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences. He has been elected as a foreign member of Academia Europaea (MAE) since 2024. His research interests include Chinese intellectual history, Chinese literature and social and political theory.
He has received numerous awards for his scholarship, including the Luca Pacioli Award (2013), Anneliese Maier Research Award(2018) and Antonio Feltrinelli International Prize (2026), and has been Visiting Professor and fellow at Harvard, Edinburgh, Bologna, Stanford, UCLA, Berkeley, Tokyo University,the University of Washington, Wissenschaft Kolleg zu Berlin and Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study among others. His recent English publications include The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought (2022), China’s Twentieth Century (2016), China from Empire to Nation-State (2015), and The Politics of Imagining Asia (2011).
"He is, deservedly, the best-known intellectual associated with China's New Left." — Kaiser Kuo