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{{Short description|1997 article by Wang Hui}}
'''"Contemporary Chinese Thought and the Question of Modernity"''' ({{zh|links=no|s=当代中国的思想状况与现代性问题}}) is an influential article of around 35,000 [[Chinese character|characters]] in length by [[China|Chinese]] [[intellectual history|intellectual historian]] and literary scholar [[Wang Hui (intellectual)|Wang Hui]], written in 1994 and published in left-wing literature journal ''Tianya'' (天涯) in 1997.<ref name=ZhangYongle>{{Cite journal | last = Yongle | first = Zhang | title = No Forbidden Zone in Reading?: ''Dushu'' and the Chinese Intelligentsia | journal = [[New Left Review]] | volume = II | issue = 49 | pages = 5–26 | publisher = New Left Review | date = January–February 2008 | url = https://newleftreview.org/II/49/yongle-zhang-no-forbidden-zone-in-reading }}</ref> An English translation by Rebecca E. Karl appeared in a volume of ''[[Social Text]]'' titled "Intellectual Politics in Post-Tiananmen China" (1998).
The article became the subject of intense debate and attention both for its [[methodology]]—an unusually socio-historical approach to intellectual history—and its expressed [[politics]], which are critical of [[capitalist]] modernity.<ref name=ZhangYongle/> According to academic Yue Gang, it is "a cornerstone in the transformation of contemporary Chinese thought" and "has become a benchmark for the [[Chinese New Left|New Left]]."<ref>Yue Gang. "Wang Hui." ''Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture''. Ed. Edward L. Davis. London: Routledge, 2005.</ref>
== See also ==
*[[Chinese intellectualism]]
== References ==
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==External links==
* Wang Hui. "''Dangdai Zhongguo de Sixiang Zhuangkuang yu Xiandaixing Wenti''" ["''Contemporary Chinese Thought and the Question of Modernity''"]. ''Tianya'' 5 (1997).
* Wang Hui, tr. Rebecca E. Karl. "Contemporary Chinese Thought and the Question of Modernity." ''Social Text'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20081221152144/http://www.socialtextonline.org/?page_id=203 55]: Intellectual Politics in Post-Tiananmen China (1998): pp.&nbsp;9–44.
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