Examining The End of Revolution: A Foretaste of Wang Hui's Thought. (May 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Horesh, Niv; Sullivan, Jonathan
• Is Part Of: China report. Volume 50:Number 2(2014:May)
• Page Start: 151
• Page End: 160
• Publication Date: 2014-05
• Subjects: Wang Hui -- New Left -- modernity -- state -- nation; China -- History -- 1949- -- Periodicals; 951.005
• DOI: 10.1177/0009445514523647
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0009-4455

Abstract

Wang Hui is a significant contemporary Chinese thinker and a key representative of Chinese New Left thought. This article provides a critical review of some of the themes that emerge from Wang's The End of Revolution as a means of situating his position in China's intellectual landscape, with a particular mind to exploring the historicity of Wang's thought as it informs his views. The essay engages some of the key discursive threads in The End of Revolution and provides a critical overview of Wang's positions on neoliberalism, the tension between Western articulations of modernity and China's own self-image.