WANG HUI is a professor of literature and history, director of the institute for advanced studies in humanities and social sciences, , . His research focuses on modern and intellectual history. He was the executive editor (with Huang Ping) of the influential magazine Dushu (Reading) from May 1996 to July 2007. The U.S. magazine Foreign Policy named him as one of the top 100 public intellectuals in the world in May 2008. Hui is the recipient of many awards for his scholarship, and he has been Visiting Professor at Harvard University; the University of Bologna (Italy); Stanford University; the University of California, Los Angeles; the University of California, Berkeley; and the University of Washington, Tokyo University, etc. In March 2010, he appeared as the keynote speaker at the annual meeting for the American Association of Asian Scholars. He is the author of numerous monographs in Chinese including From An Asian Perspective: The Narrations of Chinese History (2010); For Alternative Voices (2009); Depoliticized Politics (2008); The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought (four volumes, 2004–2009); and Rekindling Frozen Fire: The Paradox of Modernity (2000). Translated books into English include The Politics of Imagining Asia (edited by Theodore Huters, Harvard University Press, 2011), The End of Revolution: China and the Limits of Modernity (Verso, 2010); China’s New Order: Society, Politics, and Economy in Transition, translated by Teodore Huters and Rebecca Karl (Harvard University Press, 2003); books in Japanese include Shisō kūkan toshite no gendai chūgoku (Modern China as a Space for Thinking), translated by Murata Yujiro, Nasuyama Yukio, and Onodera Shiro (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 2006), China in World History: , Tibet and Lyukiu (Tokyo, 2011), and books in Korean including A New Asian Imagination (in Korean; Seoul: Creation and Criticism Press, 2003), etc. Intellectual issue to be addressed: How will interculturality challenge our moral ideas?