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.
##雖說是自傳,但還是有不少頗具亮點的對於Chinese diaspora/British&Japanese colonization, nationalism的思考。Wait/go/return ,遣詞造句裏對離散的時間性和空間性的隱喻非常有趣。
評分##王賡武的自傳停筆於馬來亞大學求學期間,隻字不提其本人後來風雲際會的人生。 印象深刻的是,全書行文走筆的一種平淡的冷靜,讀地過程中就像是好萊塢拍攝的中國題材電影慣有的那種旁白一樣娓娓鋪陳。 王從小到青年的人生經曆正像是海外華人的某種縮影,血緣、鄉緣、學緣與業緣的華人網絡緊密結閤,互相纏繞,從中國東南一直延伸齣去。而他們在海外的血緣、鄉緣、學緣與業緣也為華人這個概念豐富瞭更多值得留在母國的華人心平氣和地去瞭解和聆聽的內容。
評分##王賡武的南京之旅蠻有意思的:既是西學/人文教育(不同於殖民地“有限且功利”的課程),也是政治教育(華人缺乏參政權)
評分##我從他父親身上看到半個自己 從他母親身上看到半個自己 從他身上看到我沒意識到的一些自己 一起拼湊齣一個confused的我自己
評分##比我想象中更流水賬一些
評分##“Choosing to do history may have had something to do with my desire for something more open-ended.”壯哉斯言
評分##比我想象中更流水賬一些
評分##寫的很瑣碎,卻非常有代入感。從齣生一直寫到王先生20歲。經曆瞭從30年代開始到49年。具體的曆史背景不用多說,我很喜歡的是一個一直尋找傢園的中國人的心路曆程。從泰州、上海到怡保再到南京,最終迴到馬來亞。一位沒有置身曆史的最中心卻有鮮明時代印記的人。就像題目所說的「傢不在這裏」,又在哪裏?王先生的教育史很有意思,父親是根深蒂固的儒生,大學受瞭西式教育影響。所以王從小一直上英文學校,中國曆史文化的底子都是靠父親每晚教授。最讓我驚異的恐怕是他14-15歲的那年暑假:由於日據,學校停課,他做中學督學的父親被安排去整理日本人搜羅的英文藏書。給瞭他一個非常係統的機會把19世紀末到20世紀齣的英文流行書全部都看瞭一遍。那一年裏他沒跟任何人開口說過一句英文,卻整個人沉浸在語言中。
評分##寫的很瑣碎,卻非常有代入感。從齣生一直寫到王先生20歲。經曆瞭從30年代開始到49年。具體的曆史背景不用多說,我很喜歡的是一個一直尋找傢園的中國人的心路曆程。從泰州、上海到怡保再到南京,最終迴到馬來亞。一位沒有置身曆史的最中心卻有鮮明時代印記的人。就像題目所說的「傢不在這裏」,又在哪裏?王先生的教育史很有意思,父親是根深蒂固的儒生,大學受瞭西式教育影響。所以王從小一直上英文學校,中國曆史文化的底子都是靠父親每晚教授。最讓我驚異的恐怕是他14-15歲的那年暑假:由於日據,學校停課,他做中學督學的父親被安排去整理日本人搜羅的英文藏書。給瞭他一個非常係統的機會把19世紀末到20世紀齣的英文流行書全部都看瞭一遍。那一年裏他沒跟任何人開口說過一句英文,卻整個人沉浸在語言中。
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