發表於2025-05-09
Home is Not Here pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載
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.
##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 評分 評分 評分##新的一年裏慢慢讀完的第一本書。智慧,親切,謙遜。真的太好看瞭。
評分##中國現實·海外華人主題。海外華人研究開拓者王賡武的傳記第一冊。戰亂年代中馬之間的身份認同,漢語英語(拉丁語法語德語)的多語種學習。通讀的第10本英文書。感謝鄭聰推薦。
評分##之前對於王賡武先生隻能說是略微瞭解,畢竟說起南洋華僑離不開他。這本書最吸引我的除瞭作者就是它的封麵和中文版的譯名,不過我慶幸最後選擇瞭英文原版,講真讀海峽華人的英文作品這還是第一次,行文中很有地域特色,待把下冊讀完以後我準備認真寫一個書評罷
評分 評分Home is Not Here pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載