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Wang Hui (Chinese: 汪晖; pinyin: Wāng Huī; Yangzhou, 10 October 1959) is a professor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Tsinghua University, Beijing. His researches focus on contemporary Chinese literature and intellectual history.
Wang Hui was probably the paramount member of the group of Chinese painters known as the Four Wangs (including Wang Shimin, 1592–1680, Wang Jian, 1598–1677, and Wang Yuanqi, 1642–1715), who represented the so-called “orthodox school” of painting in the Ming and early Qing periods.
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Wang Hui (simplified Chinese: 王翚; traditional Chinese: 王翬; pinyin: Wáng Huī; 1632–1717) was a Chinese landscape painter, one of the Four Wangs. He, and the three other Wangs, dominated orthodox art in China throughout the late Ming and early Qing periods.
Learn about Wang Hui, the most celebrated painter of late seventeenth-century China, who revitalized past traditions of landscape painting and established the foundations for the Qing court art. Explore his sources of inspiration, his mentors, and his creative transformations of historical styles in this essay by Maxwell Hearn.
A handscroll painting by Wang Hui, a Qing dynasty scholar-painter, depicting the landscape of Mount Taihang. Learn about the artist's life, style, and inscription, and see details and references of the artwork.
Jul 10, 2017 · Professor Peter Bol sits down with Tsinghua University's Professor Wang Hui and Harvard's Yu Wen to discuss the changing role of intellectuals in China's history.
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Wang Hui (1632–1717) Colophon Qing dynasty (1644–1911), dated 1714 Forty years after he painted this album for his teacher Wang Shimin, Wang Hui saw it again in the home of Wang Shimin’s grandson.
