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2024-12-22
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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
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。
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。
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。
評分...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齣版瞭。
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