[1] After finishing high school in Yangzhou, Wang Hui worked for two years as a factory worker before entering college.

[5] Wang Hui has been Visiting Professor at Harvard, Edinburgh, Bologna (Italy), Stanford, UCLA, Berkeley, and the University of Washington, among others.

[10][11] The Cheung Kong Dushu (Reading) prize “controversy” was used as a case study in Barme and Davies’s [citation needed] and demonstrated the bitterness and hostility of two factional camps of Chinese intellectuals based in Beijing and Shanghai and who labelled each other as “Neoliberal’ and “New Leftist.” (p87) Under the bickering attack of “unethical wrongdoings, nepotism and intellectual thuggery” and “equity in the complex workings of global capital condemnation what was perceived to be unethical”,(p87) Wang Hui was accused of awarding to himself a prestigious “humanistic” (p94) and seemingly a relatively high monetary value from the “New Left-dominant selection committee” in which Wang Hui was a member.

This triggered a heated brawl over the internet circle between the two camps with the defense accusing the other on the “jealousy” over Wang’s relative meteoritic rise to international fame.

The award of the prize nonetheless generated diverse range of discussion modes in cyberspace debate in the then contemporary “still nascent Chinese cyber Public space”(p99) from the authors.

The accusation of collective resentment and betrayal, catering to left leaning Anglophone scholars with their EuroAmerican cultural thought, (p88), assumption of political-moral authority and thereby Chinese cultural legitimacy as “rightful” inheritance of Chinese cultural capital (p97) were all used as weapons of attack that include such mention as “moral high ground” (p89) , “financial conflict” (p93) , “intellectual autonomy” (p88), decay of intellectual friendship (p95), and even historical precedent of intellectual debate in early Northern Song and late Ming (p95) as weapons of assault.

The “neo-liberalist” group composed of intellect such as Dai Qing (p85), Liu Junning,(p90) Xu Youyu (p90), Wu Jiaxing,(p91) and Zhao Chunming.

(p92, 93) and the rival “New Leftist” lead by Wang Hui himself and Yan Gan (p92), Fan Yong (founder and publisher of the Reading) (p88), and Cui Zhuyuan (p92) came to their defense of the other in their “malicious assault, groundless attacks and the exploitation of intellectual sphere.

[23] An open letter signed by more than 60 scholars called for the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Tsinghua University to investigate the plagiarism case.

[24] Some international scholars and weblog authors have come to Wang's defense, noting that this is mostly a case of sloppy citation practice, not actual plagiarism.