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
##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##“Choosing to do history may have had something to do with my desire for something more open-ended.”壯哉斯言
評分##...nothing was permanent, that change was around the corner and that people could easily be cut off from its roots.這是王賡武先生的「山河故人」。估計完整中譯本又沒機會在中國齣版瞭。
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##還行，不過沒太多大事件
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##之前對於王賡武先生隻能說是略微瞭解，畢竟說起南洋華僑離不開他。這本書最吸引我的除瞭作者就是它的封麵和中文版的譯名，不過我慶幸最後選擇瞭英文原版，講真讀海峽華人的英文作品這還是第一次，行文中很有地域特色，待把下冊讀完以後我準備認真寫一個書評罷
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