Yuanhua Wang

Wang Yuanhua (Chinese: 王元化; November 30, 1920 – May 9, 2008 ) was a Chinese scholar and literary theorist who was a leading figure in the New Enlightenment movement in mainland China in the 1980s. As an influential liberal intellectual in China, Wang was a professor at the East China Normal University, and served as the director of the Publicity Department of Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (1983–1985). He founded the journal New Enlightenment in Shanghai in 1988.

Biography Wang Yuanhua was born to a Christian family in Wuchang, Hubei on November 30, 1920.

Wang joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1938 and attended the Great China University from 1939–1941. In 1948, Wang married his wife Zhang Ke (张可). and for Chinese liberalism in the 1990s. In particular, Wang played a leading role in the New Enlightenment movement in the 1980s and founded the New Enlightenment magazine in Shanghai in 1988.

Wang died on May 9, 2008, in Shanghai.