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Home Is Not Here (Hardcover)
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Home Is Not Here (Hardcover)
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One of Asia's most important public intellectuals, Wang Gungwu is
best-known for his explorations of Chinese history in the long
view, and for his writings on the Chinese overseas. Here the
historian of grand themes turns to the intimate scale of a single
life history: his own. "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.... While we talk grandly of the
importance of history, we can be insensitive to what people felt
and thought.... In time, I realized how partial my understanding of
the past was." Wang was born in Surabaya, Java, but his parents'
orientation was always to China; they had travelled to Southeast
Asia to help in the education of the Chinese overseas. Wang grew up
in the plural, multiethnic town of Ipoh, Malaya, now Malaysia, was
educated at home in the Confucian classics and in English medium
schools as a colonial subject. He proceeded from Ipoh to 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 amidst the historical
currents that have shaped Asia and the world.
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