发表于2025-05-29
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##虽说是自传,但还是有不少颇具亮点的对于Chinese diaspora/British&Japanese colonization, nationalism的思考。Wait/go/return ,遣词造句里对离散的时间性和空间性的隐喻非常有趣。
评分##“Choosing to do history may have had something to do with my desire for something more open-ended.”壮哉斯言
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评分##gradually distancing myself...
评分 评分 评分##在聊《家园何处是》前,我们必须先有一个概念。二战重建过程中爆发出强烈的民主主义情绪,欧亚非三大洲都进行过规模浩大的强制人口迁移(或民族战争)。在纳粹倒台后完成纳粹未完之使命。 二战轴心国为方便统治占领地,给各国人民展现出各民族之间的差异和矛盾。战争的残酷同时...
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