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.
發表於2025-01-24
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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),...
圖書標籤: 王賡武 迴憶錄 自傳 海外華人 DIASPORA 傳記 海外華人研究 迴憶錄
離開又迴來,迴來又離開,原鄉和異鄉的界限變得逐漸模糊,也終於明白王賡武先生對於「華人、華僑、華裔、華族」定義之清晰實為個人經歷的真實寫照。
評分離開又迴來,迴來又離開,原鄉和異鄉的界限變得逐漸模糊,也終於明白王賡武先生對於「華人、華僑、華裔、華族」定義之清晰實為個人經歷的真實寫照。
評分雖說是自傳,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!
評分剛讀完去年買的書。文字真誠。從自己的經驗講述瞭1935-1949這段曆史和他對傢,國及個人認同感的思考和看法。在國慶和某地動蕩這個時點讀起來更引人思考,後續買瞭王庚武的一係列書。
Home is Not Here 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載