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Home Is Where We Are

Autor Wang Gungwu, Margaret Wang
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 apr 2021
Does home have to be a country or a city?... Or is home this house or that? We have been fortunate.... We seemed always to have been home.
 
Wang Gungwu’s account of his university education in Singapore and the UK,  and the early years of his career as an academic in Malaysia captures the excitement, the ambition, and the choices of a generation that saw it their responsibility to build the new nations of Southeast Asia.
 
The exploration of the emotional and intellectual journey towards the formation of an identity, treasured by readers of Wang's Home Is Not Here, extends in this volume into an appreciation of love, family life, and the life of the mind. We also see these years from Margaret’s perspective, her own fascinating family story, and her early impressions of this young bearded poet. Wise and moving, this is a fascinating reflection on identity and belonging, and on the ability of the individual to find a place amidst the historical currents that have shaped Asia.
 
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789813251328
ISBN-10: 9813251328
Pagini: 308
Ilustrații: 10 halftones
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Editura: Nus Press Pte Ltd
Colecția National University of Singapore Press

Notă biografică

Wang Gungwu is emeritus professor at Australian National University and university professor at the National University of Singapore. Margaret Wang was educated at the University of Malaya, Homerton College, Cambridge, and the Australian National University. She was head of the English Department at the Malayan Teachers' College.
 

Cuprins

Before Home
Part One: Fitting In
Soft Landing
A Mixed Start
Whose Literature?
Verse Making
Free to Enjoy
Manila Alert
Part Two: My New Frame
What is a Nation?
Colony
Political Education
Part Three: Pairing Lives
Meeting Margaret
Mother Tung
Father Lim
Learn to Share
Part Four: Double Vision
World of Learning
Distant History
Why 10th Century
Meeting Sinology Halfway
EngLit England
Part Five: Make a Family
Reunion, Marriage
Cambridge to London
Birth of a Baby
Part Six: Great Place to Work
Closer to Home
Move to KL
Whose Region?
Part Seven: Globalizing?
Enter the Cold War
New World Report
East Coast Centres
Margaret’s America
Malaysia
Producing A Survey
Part Eight: Roots
Three Generations
We Build a House
Settling Down
Part Nine: The Unexpected
1965: Down Under
1965: Reorient
National History
Revolutions
East Asian Focus
Take a Break
Wrapping Up
Epilogue: Home is Where We Are
Appendix: Writings Related to My Malaya Home
Index

Recenzii

"[An] absorbing memoir of [an] outstanding scholar and exemplar of a humble cosmopolitanism that is becoming rare."

“By filling in gaps on what we know about Chinese, Southeast Asian and Chinese overseas history, Wang’s work will continue to be drawn on to understand China’s most recent rise and engagement with the world, as well as new waves of Chinese migration.”

"Wang Gungwu, a global Chinese historian and former president of the University of Hong Kong, wrote the story of his "long and semi-nomadic career" at the age of nearly 90. His life began in Southeast Asia during the colonial era. He experienced colonization, war, turmoil, revolution, and migrated between three continents for most of his life, which constituting a rich and unique wandering history in the historical torrents of twentieth century."