Description: This translation of the Introduction to Wang Hui's Rise of Modern Chinese Thought (2004) makes part of his four-volume masterwork available to English readers for the first time. A leading public intellectual in China, Wang charts the historical currents that have shaped Chinese modernity from the Song Dynasty to the present day.
Brief description: Wang Hui is Distinguished Professor of Literature and History at Tsinghua University and founding Director of the Tsinghua Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences. His books include China's Twentieth Century, China from Empire to Nation-State, The Politics of Imagining Asia, and China's New Order.
Review Quotes: It is continually rewarding, offering up new avenues of inquiry and revisiting links between Chinese modernity and the country's imperial history. Three centuries on from Kangxi, there are still plenty of blanks in the map of modern China. For anglophone readers, this very overdue translation helps us see the lie of the land.--Alex Monro "Times Literary Supplement" (9/4/2015 12:00:00 AM)