发表于2025-05-18
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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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评分 评分 评分 评分##深夜重读,感慨万千。因为身处波纹层层的南洋,王賡武特别意识到了命运的残酷性,而知识,其实是残酷世界里最宝贵的一种秩序。他对知识的追求其实就是对秩序的追求。南洋华人过去一直觉得自己还是北面故乡的主人,但到了王这一辈,这种情节被切断了。
评分##由於作者出身馬來亞,回憶錄聚焦東南亞華人。回憶錄不足之處在於小標題內敘述事情時間沒有交代清楚又很跳脫,經常看的很迷惑,只能大概估計很多事情發生的時間。王緊密相連的宗族是書中的亮點。王的家庭和remembering shanghai裏的孫氏同属于江蘇省士紳階級,傳統儒家教育背景,但是由於資產積累少而顯得更為實用主義,也比孫氏更會抱團生存。也可能孫氏在cosmopolitan 生活,個人更加原子化。另外敘述祖上分兩隻,一隻在南,一隻在北,分離的時間長達三百年,也是很好的社會實驗。可能因為王是學者,寫作還是不如Helen Zia精彩。
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