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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.
用户评价
##看完这个1947年的南京，人才济济但又充斥着战争前的人心惶惶，想到木心自传里1948年的上海和江浙，再想到chinese lessons里面那个1980年代闭塞又贫穷的南京，可叹白云苍狗。
评分##本来以为这本书是冷门，借过来发现里面4、5张借书单，啊，我伍村真的还是有读书人的啊！
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。
评分##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##还行，不过没太多大事件
评分##...nothing was permanent, that change was around the corner and that people could easily be cut off from its roots.這是王賡武先生的「山河故人」。估計完整中譯本又沒機會在中國出版了。
评分81 引人入胜的小书；通过阅读华侨以及49年前华人的故事，我逐渐清晰了文化上和政治上的中国的不同，的不可能相同，两者在身份认同上的张力。以及许多华侨故事里都有的relocation。跑个题，以前教员的背景经历，学生精英阶层的水平见识常常是无法望其项背的程度，也理解了许多人的文化失落。但更让我羡慕的是他们身上一种明确或者正在酝酿的自我认识，一种ontology或者价值观，让他们不一定非要追随和膜拜西方的现代性。这是现在难而又难的。
评分##“Choosing to do history may have had something to do with my desire for something more open-ended.”壮哉斯言
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。
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