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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.
用户评价
##比我想象中更流水账一些
评分##还行，不过没太多大事件
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 评分 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##还行，不过没太多大事件
评分 评分##“Choosing to do history may have had something to do with my desire for something more open-ended.”壮哉斯言
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