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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
##情不自禁流泪。
评分##深夜重读，感慨万千。因为身处波纹层层的南洋，王賡武特别意识到了命运的残酷性，而知识，其实是残酷世界里最宝贵的一种秩序。他对知识的追求其实就是对秩序的追求。南洋华人过去一直觉得自己还是北面故乡的主人，但到了王这一辈，这种情节被切断了。
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##...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出版了。
评分##比我想象中更流水账一些
评分##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
评分##还行，不过没太多大事件
评分##王赓武的自传停笔于马来亚大学求学期间，只字不提其本人后来风云际会的人生。 印象深刻的是，全书行文走笔的一种平淡的冷静，读地过程中就像是好莱坞拍摄的中国题材电影惯有的那种旁白一样娓娓铺陈。 王从小到青年的人生经历正像是海外华人的某种缩影，血缘、乡缘、学缘与业缘的华人网络紧密结合，互相缠绕，从中国东南一直延伸出去。而他们在海外的血缘、乡缘、学缘与业缘也为华人这个概念丰富了更多值得留在母国的华人心平气和地去了解和聆听的内容。
评分81 引人入胜的小书；通过阅读华侨以及49年前华人的故事，我逐渐清晰了文化上和政治上的中国的不同，的不可能相同，两者在身份认同上的张力。以及许多华侨故事里都有的relocation。跑个题，以前教员的背景经历，学生精英阶层的水平见识常常是无法望其项背的程度，也理解了许多人的文化失落。但更让我羡慕的是他们身上一种明确或者正在酝酿的自我认识，一种ontology或者价值观，让他们不一定非要追随和膜拜西方的现代性。这是现在难而又难的。
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