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
##深夜重讀，感慨萬韆。因為身處波紋層層的南洋，王賡武特彆意識到瞭命運的殘酷性，而知識，其實是殘酷世界裏最寶貴的一種秩序。他對知識的追求其實就是對秩序的追求。南洋華人過去一直覺得自己還是北麵故鄉的主人，但到瞭王這一輩，這種情節被切斷瞭。
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##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##在當前的形勢下讀完瞭這本書，心情非常沉重。顛沛流離的幾年作者一直沒有停止自我教育，走街串巷學會瞭各種方言，去父親工作的圖書館幫忙看瞭許多英文小說，聽英文廣播熟悉不同口音。
評分##本來以為這本書是冷門，藉過來發現裏麵4、5張藉書單，啊，我伍村真的還是有讀書人的啊！
評分##在當前的形勢下讀完瞭這本書，心情非常沉重。顛沛流離的幾年作者一直沒有停止自我教育，走街串巷學會瞭各種方言，去父親工作的圖書館幫忙看瞭許多英文小說，聽英文廣播熟悉不同口音。
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##深夜重讀，感慨萬韆。因為身處波紋層層的南洋，王賡武特彆意識到瞭命運的殘酷性，而知識，其實是殘酷世界裏最寶貴的一種秩序。他對知識的追求其實就是對秩序的追求。南洋華人過去一直覺得自己還是北麵故鄉的主人，但到瞭王這一輩，這種情節被切斷瞭。
評分##新的一年裏慢慢讀完的第一本書。智慧，親切，謙遜。真的太好看瞭。
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