 He was the executive editor (with Huang Ping) of the influential magazine Dushu (读书, "Reading") from May 1996 to July 2007.The US magazine "Foreign Policy" named him as one of the top 100 public intellectuals in the world in May 2008.Wang Hui has been Visiting Professor at Harvard, Edinburgh, Bologna (Italy), Stanford, UCLA, Berkeley, and the University of Washington, among others.