具體描述
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.
用戶評價
##王賡武的南京之旅蠻有意思的：既是西學/人文教育（不同於殖民地“有限且功利”的課程），也是政治教育（華人缺乏參政權）
評分##“Choosing to do history may have had something to do with my desire for something more open-ended.”壯哉斯言
評分##gradually distancing myself...
評分81 引人入勝的小書；通過閱讀華僑以及49年前華人的故事，我逐漸清晰瞭文化上和政治上的中國的不同，的不可能相同，兩者在身份認同上的張力。以及許多華僑故事裏都有的relocation。跑個題，以前教員的背景經曆，學生精英階層的水平見識常常是無法望其項背的程度，也理解瞭許多人的文化失落。但更讓我羨慕的是他們身上一種明確或者正在醞釀的自我認識，一種ontology或者價值觀，讓他們不一定非要追隨和膜拜西方的現代性。這是現在難而又難的。
評分##雖說是自傳，但還是有不少頗具亮點的對於Chinese diaspora/British&Japanese colonization, nationalism的思考。Wait/go/return ,遣詞造句裏對離散的時間性和空間性的隱喻非常有趣。
評分##gradually distancing myself...
評分##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。
評分##比我想象中更流水賬一些
評分##之前對於王賡武先生隻能說是略微瞭解，畢竟說起南洋華僑離不開他。這本書最吸引我的除瞭作者就是它的封麵和中文版的譯名，不過我慶幸最後選擇瞭英文原版，講真讀海峽華人的英文作品這還是第一次，行文中很有地域特色，待把下冊讀完以後我準備認真寫一個書評罷
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