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##看完這個1947年的南京，人纔濟濟但又充斥著戰爭前的人心惶惶，想到木心自傳裏1948年的上海和江浙，再想到chinese lessons裏麵那個1980年代閉塞又貧窮的南京，可嘆白雲蒼狗。
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##寫的很瑣碎，卻非常有代入感。從齣生一直寫到王先生20歲。經曆瞭從30年代開始到49年。具體的曆史背景不用多說，我很喜歡的是一個一直尋找傢園的中國人的心路曆程。從泰州、上海到怡保再到南京，最終迴到馬來亞。一位沒有置身曆史的最中心卻有鮮明時代印記的人。就像題目所說的「傢不在這裏」，又在哪裏？王先生的教育史很有意思，父親是根深蒂固的儒生，大學受瞭西式教育影響。所以王從小一直上英文學校，中國曆史文化的底子都是靠父親每晚教授。最讓我驚異的恐怕是他14-15歲的那年暑假：由於日據，學校停課，他做中學督學的父親被安排去整理日本人搜羅的英文藏書。給瞭他一個非常係統的機會把19世紀末到20世紀齣的英文流行書全部都看瞭一遍。那一年裏他沒跟任何人開口說過一句英文，卻整個人沉浸在語言中。
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##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##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##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
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