作者：WangGungwu
出版社：NUSPress
出版年：2018-8-30
页数：216
定价：GBP22.95
装帧：Hardcover
ISBN：9789814722926
内容简介
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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.
作者简介
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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.
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我从他父亲身上看到半个自己 从他母亲身上看到半个自己 从他身上看到我没意识到的一些自己 一起拼凑出一个confused的我自己
情不自禁流泪。
gradually distancing myself…
中国现实·海外华人主题。海外华人研究开拓者王赓武的传记第一册。战乱年代中马之间的身份认同，汉语英语(拉丁语法语德语)的多语种学习。通读的第10本英文书。感谢郑聪推荐。
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