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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.
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##在当前的形势下读完了这本书，心情非常沉重。颠沛流离的几年作者一直没有停止自我教育，走街串巷学会了各种方言，去父亲工作的图书馆帮忙看了许多英文小说，听英文广播熟悉不同口音。
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##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##写的很琐碎，却非常有代入感。从出生一直写到王先生20岁。经历了从30年代开始到49年。具体的历史背景不用多说，我很喜欢的是一个一直寻找家园的中国人的心路历程。从泰州、上海到怡保再到南京，最终回到马来亚。一位没有置身历史的最中心却有鲜明时代印记的人。就像题目所说的「家不在这里」，又在哪里？王先生的教育史很有意思，父亲是根深蒂固的儒生，大学受了西式教育影响。所以王从小一直上英文学校，中国历史文化的底子都是靠父亲每晚教授。最让我惊异的恐怕是他14-15岁的那年暑假：由于日据，学校停课，他做中学督学的父亲被安排去整理日本人搜罗的英文藏书。给了他一个非常系统的机会把19世纪末到20世纪出的英文流行书全部都看了一遍。那一年里他没跟任何人开口说过一句英文，却整个人沉浸在语言中。
评分##gradually distancing myself...
评分##在当前的形势下读完了这本书，心情非常沉重。颠沛流离的几年作者一直没有停止自我教育，走街串巷学会了各种方言，去父亲工作的图书馆帮忙看了许多英文小说，听英文广播熟悉不同口音。
评分##情不自禁流泪。
评分##“Choosing to do history may have had something to do with my desire for something more open-ended.”壮哉斯言
评分##由於作者出身馬來亞，回憶錄聚焦東南亞華人。回憶錄不足之處在於小標題內敘述事情時間沒有交代清楚又很跳脫，經常看的很迷惑，只能大概估計很多事情發生的時間。王緊密相連的宗族是書中的亮點。王的家庭和remembering shanghai裏的孫氏同属于江蘇省士紳階級，傳統儒家教育背景，但是由於資產積累少而顯得更為實用主義，也比孫氏更會抱團生存。也可能孫氏在cosmopolitan 生活，個人更加原子化。另外敘述祖上分兩隻，一隻在南，一隻在北，分離的時間長達三百年，也是很好的社會實驗。可能因為王是學者，寫作還是不如Helen Zia精彩。
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