Home Is Not Here Gungwu WangPevná vazba
Home Is Not Here Gungwu WangPevná vazba As someone who has studied history for much of my life, I have found the past fascinating. He is best-known for his explorations of Chinese history in the long…
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Home Is Not Here Gungwu WangPevná vazba
As someone who has studied history for much of my life, I have found the past fascinating. He is best-known for his explorations of Chinese history in the long view, and for his writings on the Chinese diaspora. 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 was born in Surabaya, Java, but his parents' orientation was always to China. With Home is Not Here, the historian of grand themes turns to a single life history: his own.Wang writes about his multicultural upbringing and life under British rule. 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