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.
##“Choosing to do history may have had something to do with my desire for something more open-ended.”壯哉斯言
評分##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##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##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##我從他父親身上看到半個自己 從他母親身上看到半個自己 從他身上看到我沒意識到的一些自己 一起拼湊齣一個confused的我自己
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
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##“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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