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Title
  1. Home is not here / Wang Gungwu.
Published by
  1. Singapore : Ridge Books, [2018]
  2. ©2018
Author
  1. Wang, Gungwu

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Description
  1. 219 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
  1. "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. 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."--Provided by publisher.
Subject
  1. Wang, Gungwu
  2. Wang, Gungwu > Childhood and youth
  3. China
  4. Historians > Biography
  5. Scholars > Biography
  6. Intellectuals > Biography
  7. Chinese > Study and teaching
  8. Historians
  9. Intellectuals
  10. Scholars
  11. Study skills
  12. Autobiografie
  13. Herkunftsfamilie
  14. Historiker
  15. Jugend
  16. Selbstreflexion
  17. China > Study and teaching
  18. Südostasien
Genre/Form
  1. Biography.
  2. Autobiographies.
Call number
  1. JFE 19-2426
Note
  1. Includes index.
Language (note)
  1. In English.
Author
  1. Wang, Gungwu, author.
Title
  1. Home is not here / Wang Gungwu.
Publisher
  1. Singapore : Ridge Books, [2018]
Copyright date
  1. ©2018
Type of content
  1. text
  2. still image
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Language
  1. In English.
LCCN
  1. 2018333726
ISBN
  1. 9789814722926 hardback
  2. 9814722928 hardback
Research call number
  1. JFE 19-2426
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