Hui Wang#
| Membership Number: | 6761 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | SOCIAL CHANGE AND SOCIAL THOUGHT |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | CHINA |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.tsinghua.edu.cn |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2018 - present Distinguished Professor of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at departments of Chinese Literature & History, Tsinghua University
- Changjiang Scholar (Specially granted by the Ministry of Education in 2009)
- 2009 - present Founding Director, Tsinghua Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences
- 2023, September - 2024, April Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
- 2023, May - July, and 2019, June-August Visiting Professor/Senior Fellow, University of Göttingen University & Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
- 2017 January - May, Visiting Professor, Harvard University
- 2015 April - May, Visiting Professor, Ca’Forscari University of Venice
- 2013 (Spring semester) B. Karlgren Fellow, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala
- 2011 (Spring semester) Chair Professor, Taiwan Chiaotung University
- 2009 (Spring semester) Guest Professor, Stanford University
- 2008 - 2010 (two or three months in each year): Guest Professor, Bologna University
- 2007 (fall semester) Guest Professor, New York University
- 2005 - 2006 (fall and Spring semester) Guest Professor, Tokyo University
- 2003 (spring semester) Visiting Professor, University of Heidelberg
- 2002 (fall semester) Visiting Professor, Columbia University
Fields of Scholarship
- The Rise of modern Chinese thought
- Chinese and global social theory
- Twentieth-century China in world history
- Chinese intellectual history
- Chinese literature
Honours and Awards
- 2023 The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought is on The New Statesman’s “Best Books of the Academic Presses”
- 2023 Named to Prospect Magazine’s list of top thinkers
- 2023 Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA (September 2023 April 2024)
- 2018 Anneliese Maier Research Award, Germany
- 2015 China from Empire to Nation State was selected among “Outstanding Academic Titles” in Choices and top ten books in Asian Studies in Library Journal 2013:
- 2013 (Spring) Bernhard Karlgren Fellow, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala
- 2013 Winner of “2013 Luca Pacioli Prize” together with Jürgen Habermas, Venice
- 2010 (Spring) Pusey Fellow, Harvard University
- 2009 (Summer) Fellow, CRASSH, University of Cambridge, UK
- 2009 (Spring) Distinguished Practitioner, Stanford University
- 2009 (Spring semester) Townsend Resident Fellow, University of California, Berkeley
- 2008 one of 100 most influential intellectuals, nominated by Foreign Policy and Prospect
- 2008 Title of Goethe Cultural Ambassador, awarded by Goethe Institute, Beijing
- 2004 - 2005 (fall semester): Senior Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, Bologna University
- 2004 The Miliband Lecture, London School of Economics
- 2004 Awarded the title “Most Influential Scholar of the Year” by the first Chinese Scholarship Annuals (edited by Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) for the publication of Xiandai zhongguo sixiang de xingqi (The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought), which was listed as one of the ten great achievements of humanities and social sciences in 2004 by Zhonghua dushu bao (China Readings, Beijing), one of the ten excellent books of 2004 by Shucheng (Book City, Shanghai), and one of the ten excellent books in Chinese of 2004 by Yazhou zhoukan (Asia Weekly, Hong Kong)
- 2000 - 2001 Senior Fellow, Wissenchaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Studies in Berlin).
- 1999 - 2000 Fellow, University of Washington, Seattle.
- 1995 First--grade Award for Excellent Papers by Young Scholars, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, for the paper “Wu Zhihui yu zhongguo fan chuantong zhuyi kexue guan” (Wu Zhihui and the Anti--traditionalistic View of Science in China).
- 1994 “Excellence of Scholarship in Recent Ten Years of the New Era” Book Award, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, for the book Fankang juewang (Resisting Despair: A Study of Lu Xun and His Literary World)
- 1992 - 1993 CSCC (Committee for Scholarly Communication with China, American Council of Learned Societies) fellow at the Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University; post--doctoral fellow, UCLA
