Wang Yuanhua

Wang Yuanhua (November 30, 1920 - May 9, 2008), male, was born in Shashi, Hubei Province. He was a modern Chinese thinker and literary theorist. He once served as a professor and doctoral supervisor at East China Normal University, a representative of the 12th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, a member of the Standing Committee of the 8th Shanghai Municipal People's Congress, and a member of the Standing Committee of the 7th Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Wang Yuanhua is considered one of the representatives of the "New Enlightenment Movement" in mainland China in the 1980s. He advocated regaining the enlightenment spirit of the "May Fourth Movement". In 1988, he presided over the establishment of the "New Enlightenment" magazine in Shanghai.