具體描述
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.
用戶評價
##在當前的形勢下讀完瞭這本書，心情非常沉重。顛沛流離的幾年作者一直沒有停止自我教育，走街串巷學會瞭各種方言，去父親工作的圖書館幫忙看瞭許多英文小說，聽英文廣播熟悉不同口音。
評分##還行，不過沒太多大事件
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##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##看完這個1947年的南京，人纔濟濟但又充斥著戰爭前的人心惶惶，想到木心自傳裏1948年的上海和江浙，再想到chinese lessons裏麵那個1980年代閉塞又貧窮的南京，可嘆白雲蒼狗。
評分##情不自禁流淚。
評分##看完這個1947年的南京，人纔濟濟但又充斥著戰爭前的人心惶惶，想到木心自傳裏1948年的上海和江浙，再想到chinese lessons裏麵那個1980年代閉塞又貧窮的南京，可嘆白雲蒼狗。
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##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。
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