Qin Hui (historian) - Wikipedia Qin Hui (historian) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. Find sources: "Qin Hui" historian – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (July 2019) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) In this Chinese name, the family name is Qin. Qin Hui (2011) Movements in contemporary Chinese political thought Liberalism Gu Su Qin Hui Xu Jilin Xu Youyu Zhu Xueqin Neoauthoritarianism New Conservatism Chen Yuan Wang Huning Wu Jiaxiang Xiao Gongqin New Confucianism Chen Ming Jiang Qing Kang Xiaoguang Yan Xuetong New Left Bo Xilai Cui Zhiyuan Gan Yang Jiang Shigong Li Minqi Wang Hui Wang Shaoguang Politics of China Xi Jinping Thought Democracy movement v t e Qin Hui (Chinese: 秦晖; pinyin: Qín Huī; born 1953) is a Chinese historian and public intellectual. He previously held the position of Professor of History, Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing. He is now an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Government and Public Administration, the Chinese University of Hong Kong.[1] Contents 1 Career 1.1 Banning of Moving Away from the Imperial Regime 2 Views 3 Personal life 4 History lectures on the web 5 See also 6 References 7 External links Career[edit] Qin's primary field is economic history, but since 1992 he has emerged as a prominent public intellectual, taking a stand on a range of issues, often in conflict with the official doctrines of the Chinese government. His general focus is China's agrarian history. Qin is an influential writer in the Sinosphere and the Chinese-speaking Internet, where collections of his works are commonly found. An important case in point is his doctrine of "issues versus isms" (wenti yu zhuyi). Banning of Moving Away from the Imperial Regime[edit] In December 2015, Qin Hui's new book Moving Away from the Imperial Regime (走出帝制; Zǒuchū Dìzhì), a collection of articles examining how the "dream" of constitutional democracy fell apart in China in the early 20th century after the country broke free from the Qing imperial order, was banned by the Chinese government. The book was a bestseller before the ban.[2] "It's like they want to kill someone and won't even let him complain about it," Qin commented; "I can’t talk about this matter." An anonymous employee at the book's publisher said that the book had "quality problems". The ban was issued days before China celebrated its second annual Constitution Day.[3] Views[edit] This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (July 2019) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) In terms of political ideology, Qin Hui defends a left-liberal position. He favors privatization under strict conditions of democratic openness. However he opposes market fundamentalism in its Chinese forms, and seeks to introduce institutions of social democracy, including some aspects of the welfare state. He strongly defends liberty as a political value, and often allies with other Chinese intellectuals labeled "liberal". He has engaged in polemics with the Chinese New Left, particularly its more populist and nationalist forms. He has for example signed petitions protesting chauvinistic responses to the September 11 attacks in New York City. As a public intellectual, Qin has worked to initiate debates on social justice. Having himself been sent down to work as a peasant in a poor mountainous region of Southwest China in the Cultural Revolution, Qin has argued that China's peasantry suffers from a grave lack of social justice to the present day. At the same time, he has stated in his historical research that the peasantry has a strong tendency to enhance their citizen status whenever possible (whereas the urban working class has often tended to demand restitution of the dependent client status it enjoyed under the Maoist planned economy). Qin has drawn on the work of Alexander Chayanov, Eric Wolf and other writers on agrarian society to attack cultural essentialism in studies of the Chinese peasantry, which often takes the form of portraying the peasantry as permanently imbued with Confucianism and the collectivist ethics of the feudal patriarchal lineage. Qin has been concerned to show that history rather than culture provides a solid explanatory framework for the empirical phenomena. Contrary to the received Maoist view which emphasizes peasant wars as expressions of class struggle, in his research on agrarian history Qin concludes that the most significant fault-line in the countryside was not between peasant and landlord, but between peasant and official. This has obvious consequences for interpreting contemporary rural China.[clarification needed] Personal life[edit] Qin Hui is married with one daughter. His wife, Jin Yan (金雁) is an eminent scholar of Eastern European and Russian affairs in her own right, often collaborating with Qin under the nom-de-plume Su Wen (苏文).[citation needed] History lectures on the web[edit] Broken up and Reconnection (Chinese:秦晖-断裂与联系：30年、60年、120年的中国历程.mp3) Beware of problem colonization (Chinese:秦晖：警惕“问题殖民”.mp3) On Chinese peasants (Chinese: 秦晖-10.06.24-农民问题的历史与现实（天人讲堂）.mp3) China's Land system (Chinese: 秦晖-十字路口中的中国二元土地制度.mp3) See also[edit] Chinese philosophy References[edit] ^ "Faculty". www.gpa.cuhk.edu.hk. Retrieved 2020-02-24. ^ ZHAO, KIKI (4 December 2015). "On China's Constitution Day, Book on Constitutionalism Largely Disappears". New York Times. Retrieved 9 December 2015. ^ Mitchell, Tom (December 3, 2015). "Book by prominent Chinese academic 'banned'". Financial Times. Retrieved 9 December 2015. Kelly, David (August 2005). "Guest editor's Introduction". The Chinese Economy. 38 (4): 3–11. doi:10.1080/10971475.2005.11033531. Hui, Qin (August 2005). "The common baseline of modern thought". The Chinese Economy. 38 (4): 12–22. doi:10.1080/10971475.2005.11033529. Hui, Qin (March–April 2003). "Dividing the big family assets". New Left Review. New Left Review. II (20). Qin Hui and Su Wen, Tianyuanshi yu kuangxiangqu–Guanzhong moshi yu qianjindai shehuide zairenshi (Pastorals and rhapsodies: the Central Shaanxi model in rethinking pre-modern society) (Beijing: Zhongyang bianyi chubanshe, 1996). Qin Hui, Wenti yu zhuyi (Issues and isms) (Changchun chubanshe, 1999). 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