The Dawn of the Pacific Century: China and the Condition of the Spatial Revolution

The Dawn of the Pacific Century: China and the Condition of the Spatial Revolution

This event was presented in collaboration with The Havens Wright Center for Social Justice. Prof. Wang Hui delivered a lecture based on his previous work, which has attempted to chart the intellectual and political conditions of contemporary China through a deep engagement with both the history and the consequences of Chinese modernity.

Prof. Wang is Distinguished Professor of Literature and History, as well as the founding Director of the Tsinghua Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences at Tsinghua University, Beijing. He graduated with a PhD degree in Chinese literature from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 1988. In 1996-2007, he served as the chief editor of Dushu Magazine, the most influential intellectual journal in China. He has published extensively on Chinese intellectual history, literature, and engaged in debates on historical and contemporary issues. His four-volumes work The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought in Chinese (2004) is regarded as one of the most important contributions to modern Chinese scholarship over the past two decades.