具體描述
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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##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。 邊陲的華人如何看待自己的華人身份？我剛到坡時，也對此有深深的疑惑。一方麵，坡所呈現的中華文化，並不是中國教科書上所教導的“正統”中國文化，而是有強烈的福建、廣東特色的地方民俗，例如供奉大伯公、媽祖，買新房要滾鳳梨以求“旺來”，七月認真地過鬼節，春節時隻說“...
評分##《何處是傢園》，王賡武，香港中文大學齣版社。一位海外華僑的個人曆史記錄。民族的認同感在他的那一代交錯亂疊，不禁感嘆，他自己到底屬於哪國人哪裏人？亂世風雲裏，父母逃生馬來亞，自小齣生於馬來亞，學中文學英文學客傢話學粵語學馬來語，等等。期間短暫迴南京讀大學一年...
評分 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 評分##“Choosing to do history may have had something to do with my desire for something more open-ended.”壯哉斯言
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