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Wang Gungwu, formerly vice chancellor of the University of Hong Kong, is emeritus professor at Australian National University and university professor at the National University of Singapore. He was awarded the Fukuoka Asia Culture Prize in 1996. He is the author of some 20 books, including The Chinese Overseas, published by Harvard University Press.
As someone who has studied history for much of my life, I have found the past fascinating. But it has always been some grand and even intimidating universe that I wanted to unpick and explain to myself.
Wang Gungwu is one of Asia’s most important public intellectuals. He is best-known for his explorations of Chinese history in the long view, and for his writings on the Chinese diaspora. With Home is Not Here, the historian of grand themes turns to a single life history: his own.
In this volume, Wang talks about his multicultural upbringing and life under British rule. He was born in Surabaya, Java, but his parents’ orientation was always to China. Wang grew up in the plural, multi-ethnic town of Ipoh, Malaya (now Malaysia). He learned English in colonial schools and was taught the Confucian classics at home. After the end of WWII and Japanese occupation, he left for the National Central University in Nanjing to study alongside some of the finest of his generation of Chinese undergraduates. The victory of Mao Zedong’s Communist Party interrupted his education, and he ends this volume with his return to Malaya.
Wise and moving, this is a fascinating reflection on family, identity, and belonging, and on the ability of the individual to find a place amid the historical currents that have shaped Asia and the world.
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##王赓武的南京之旅蛮有意思的：既是西学/人文教育（不同于殖民地“有限且功利”的课程），也是政治教育（华人缺乏参政权）
评分##比我想象中更流水账一些
评分 评分##为何讲述？ 2018年，海外华人研究中国历史最富成果、同年出生的两位学者余英时和王赓武先生都出版了回忆录。余先生因为在学界的巨大影响力，再加上回忆录为中文著作，出版后洛阳纸贵，台北的书店一度脱销。王赓武在新加坡出版的英文回忆录《此处非故里》（Home Is Not Here），...
评分 评分 评分##gradually distancing myself...
评分##新的一年里慢慢读完的第一本书。智慧，亲切，谦逊。真的太好看了。
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