WANG Hui
Distinguished Professor, Tsinghua University
The birth of the century marked the birth of global synchronicity in Chinese history, as well as the struggle and exploration to reform the imbalance within this synchronic relationship. Only from the multiple perspectives of Chinese historical context and great changes in world history can we grasp the position of China in the 20th century. This talk will focus on two questions: the arrival of the century and the politics of displacement in the context of the spatial revolution.
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 The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought, China’s Twentieth Century, From the Empire to Nation-State, The Politics of Imagining Asia, and China’s New Order.
Co-Sponsored by the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, China Research Group, Eurasian Humanities (Iron Silk), Program in Comparative Literature, Rutgers Center for Chinese Studies, and Rutgers Global.