Synopses & Reviews
Review
China from Empire to Nation-State, a stellar contribution to intellectual history, does something very rare: it enriches and expands our vocabulary. There will be no greater incentive to study the political and philosophical traditions of China--and of the non-West in general--than this consistently illuminating and bracing book. Pankaj Mishra, author of < i=""> From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia <>
Review
The present book is an erudite, stimulating, thought provoking, nuanced, but highly condensed overture to Wang's ambitious macro history of the formation of Chinese intellectual modernity. Sensitive to both continuities and disruptions, Wang engages traditional thought as well as Western and Japanese scholarly discourse...It illuminates 21st-century Chinese discourse and provides ample food for thought for scholars grappling with interpreting modern and premodern Chinese intellectual history. C. Schirokauer
Synopsis
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.
About the Author
Wang Hui is Professor of Literature and History at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
Tsinghua University