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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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##我們再次搬傢，這次搬迴新街場。（新房東）葉太太非常親切，認為我應該要有床可睡，於是我有瞭一張自己的床，放在共用的房間裏，室友是在葉太太腳踏車行工作的一個年輕小夥子。葉太太和員工之間說的是一種我聞所未聞的福建方言。他們講的是興化話（莆田話），怡保幾乎沒有人聽...
評分##深夜重讀，感慨萬韆。因為身處波紋層層的南洋，王賡武特彆意識到瞭命運的殘酷性，而知識，其實是殘酷世界裏最寶貴的一種秩序。他對知識的追求其實就是對秩序的追求。南洋華人過去一直覺得自己還是北麵故鄉的主人，但到瞭王這一輩，這種情節被切斷瞭。
評分##本來以為這本書是冷門，藉過來發現裏麵4、5張藉書單，啊，我伍村真的還是有讀書人的啊！
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 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##為何講述？ 2018年，海外華人研究中國曆史最富成果、同年齣生的兩位學者餘英時和王賡武先生都齣版瞭迴憶錄。餘先生因為在學界的巨大影響力，再加上迴憶錄為中文著作，齣版後洛陽紙貴，颱北的書店一度脫銷。王賡武在新加坡齣版的英文迴憶錄《此處非故裏》（Home Is Not Here），...
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##gradually distancing myself...
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