Wang Hui is a professor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Tsinghua University in Beijing, where he currently lives. He studied at Yangzhou University, Nanjing University and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He has also been a visiting professor at NYU and other universities in the U.S. In 1989, he participated in the Tiananmen Square Protests and was subsequently sent to a poor inland province for compulsory "re-education" as punishment for his participation. He developed a leftist critique of government policy as a result and, as a result, came to be one of the leading proponents of the Chinese New Left in the 1990s, though Wang Hui did not choose this term.… Wang is the only member of this Chinese New Left whose name would be recognizable in the West; he was named as one of the top 100 public intellectuals in the world in 2008 by Foreign Policy and was profiled by the New York Times .