Home is where we are

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Home is where we are

Wang Gungwu, Margaret Wang

NUS Press, c2021

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In English

Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

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, historian of grand themes and broad perspectives, has held positions in universities around the world, from London and Cambridge to Kuala Lumpur, Canberra, Hong Kong and Singapore. This second volume of his memoirs, written with his wife Margaret, continues the very personal story begun in Home is Not Here. Wang’s account of his years at the University of Malaya, captures the excitement, the ambition — and the naïveté — of young English-educated elites being prepared for leadership by the departing colonial power. He introduces us to some outstanding personalities of this founding generation of two nations, including young medical student Mahathir Mohamad. We also see these years from Margaret’s perspective, her own fascinating family story, and her impressions of this young bearded poet. The exploration of the emotional and intellectual journey towards the formation of an identity, treasured by readers of Home is Not Here, extends in this volume into an appreciation of love, family life, and the life of the mind. 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 and the world.

目次

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

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