Gungwu Wang
Biographic Data
| ID | 3758817 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gungwu Wang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gungwu |
| FAMILY NAME | Wang |
| SIGNATURE | WANG G |
| AFFILIATIONS | East Asian Institute, NUSSingapore |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Webinar Transcript — Chinese Diaspora in the Modern World: In Conversation with Wang Gungwu
China Reconnects: Joining a Deep-rooted Past to a New World Order
"The book shows how the Chinese are now confident of their capacity to learn all they need from the developed world and are keen to know which parts of the past they would need to build a modern Chinese civilization. They are very conscious of the challenges coming from the United States, and are looking for ways and means to respond to a superpower that wants to preserve its dominant position in the international status quo. The book seeks to ex…
China Reconnects: Joining a Deep-Rooted Past to a New World Order
Nanyang: Essays on Heritage
This volume is a book of reflections and encounters about the region that the Chinese knew as Nanyang. The essays in it look back at the years of uncertainty after the end of World War II and explore the period largely through images of mixed heritages in Malaysia and Singapore. They also look at the trends towards social and political divisiveness following the years of decolonization in Southeast Asia. Never far in the background is the struggl…
Global History and Migrations
Silk roads and the centrality of Old World Eurasia
The Chinese have been changing throughout their history. The China before the Qin–Han unification was quite different from imperial China. After the fall of the Han dynasty, what was “China” went through a very turbulent period of three centuries. The Chinese economy declined rapidly after 1840. The Deng Xiaoping era saw the use of economic weapons to ensure development and create the platform for the wealth and power that Chinese would need to f…
Dear China: Emigrant Letters and Remittances, 1820-1980
Qiaopi is the name given to the “silver letters” Chinese emigrants sent home in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These letters-cum-remittances, which were entered into UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register in 2013, document the changing history of the Chinese diaspora in different parts of the world and in different periods, as well as its linkages to China. The qiaopi trade played a big part in making China transnational. This book, the f…
Lee Kuan Yew through the eyes of Chinese scholars
A compilation of essays by highly-respected Chinese scholars in which they evaluate the life, work and philosophy of Lee Kuan Yew, founding Prime Minister of Singapore. Presenting a range of views from a uniquely Chinese/Asian perspective, this book provides valuable insights for those who wish to gain a fuller and deeper understanding of Lee Kuan Yew, the man, as well as Singapore, his nation
China's historical place reclaimed
Additional informationNotes on contributorsGungwu WangGungwu Wang is a Professor and Chairman of the East Asian Institute at the National University of Singapore, an Emeritus Professor of the Australian National University, and a Fellow and former President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. His forthcoming book is Renewal: The Chinese State in a Global Society
Connecting Seas and Connected Ocean Rims: Indian, Atlantic, and Pacific Oceans and China Seas Migrations from the 1830s to the 1930s
Long-distance migration of peoples have been a central if little understood factor in global integration. The essays in this collection contribute to a new history of world migrations, written by specialists of particular areas of the world. Collectively these essays point towards a shift from the regional migrations of individual seas and oceans of the early modern era toward nineteenth-century labor migrations that connected the Pacific and Ind…
Wang Gungwu: Junzi: Scholar-Gentleman in Conversation with Asad-ul Iqbal Latif
This book of interviews with Professor Wang Gungwu, published to felicitate him on his 80th birthday in 2010, seeks to convey to a general audience something of the life, times and thoughts of a leading historian, Southeast Asianist, Sinologist and public intellectual. The interviews flesh out Professor Wang’s views on being Chinese in Malaya; his experience of living and working in Malaysia, Singapore and Australia; the Vietnam War; Hong Kong an…
Divided China - Preparing for Reunification 883-947
The oneness of China is the norm. Periods of divisions are aberrations. This is how Chinese thinkers, leaders and ultimately the majority of Chinese people have regarded Chinese politics and history for more than 2,000 years. The oneness was never perfect. As long as certain minimal conditions were met and the polity which proclaimed that oneness was widely acknowledged, that was enough. Chinese ruling elites adopted this pragmatic approach so th…
In their Own Words: Personal Reflections as History. Autobiographical Writings when Japan Ruled the Pacific. Introduction
Within and Without: Chinese Writers Overseas
Thousands of Chinese outside China have been writing in Chinese and other languages since the past century. Some wrote merely to record their personal experiences. Others wrote to express their thoughts and feelings. We are beginning to have some idea of the aspirations and limitations of these writers and their struggles to define their place in their respective communities and countries, and in the larger world of literature. Each writer is a S…
The Fourth Rise of China: Cultural Implications
The Chinese have a deep-rooted ancient culture of values, but are now tending to opt for secular alternatives coming directly or indirectly from the West. Whilst China is itself struggling to come to terms with these, its influence in the region is more likely to be felt in terms of its political and economic cultures than its culture of values.
Hong Kong: Dilemmas of Growth
Connecting Seas and Connected Ocean Rims: Indian, Atlantic, and Pacific Oceans and China Seas Migrations from the 1830s to the 1930s
Long-distance migration of peoples have been a central if little understood factor in global integration. The essays in this collection contribute to a new history of world migrations, written by specialists of particular areas of the world. Collectively these essays point towards a shift from the regional migrations of individual seas and oceans of the early modern era toward nineteenth-century labor migrations that connected the Pacific and Ind…
Hong Kong: Dilemmas of Growth
Within and Without: Chinese Writers Overseas
Thousands of Chinese outside China have been writing in Chinese and other languages since the past century. Some wrote merely to record their personal experiences. Others wrote to express their thoughts and feelings. We are beginning to have some idea of the aspirations and limitations of these writers and their struggles to define their place in their respective communities and countries, and in the larger world of literature. Each writer is a S…
Hong Kong: Dilemmas of Growth
The Fourth Rise of China: Cultural Implications
The Chinese have a deep-rooted ancient culture of values, but are now tending to opt for secular alternatives coming directly or indirectly from the West. Whilst China is itself struggling to come to terms with these, its influence in the region is more likely to be felt in terms of its political and economic cultures than its culture of values.
Within and Without: Chinese Writers Overseas
Thousands of Chinese outside China have been writing in Chinese and other languages since the past century. Some wrote merely to record their personal experiences. Others wrote to express their thoughts and feelings. We are beginning to have some idea of the aspirations and limitations of these writers and their struggles to define their place in their respective communities and countries, and in the larger world of literature. Each writer is a S…
In their Own Words: Personal Reflections as History. Autobiographical Writings when Japan Ruled the Pacific. Introduction
Divided China - Preparing for Reunification 883-947
The oneness of China is the norm. Periods of divisions are aberrations. This is how Chinese thinkers, leaders and ultimately the majority of Chinese people have regarded Chinese politics and history for more than 2,000 years. The oneness was never perfect. As long as certain minimal conditions were met and the polity which proclaimed that oneness was widely acknowledged, that was enough. Chinese ruling elites adopted this pragmatic approach so th…
Wang Gungwu: Junzi: Scholar-Gentleman in Conversation with Asad-ul Iqbal Latif
This book of interviews with Professor Wang Gungwu, published to felicitate him on his 80th birthday in 2010, seeks to convey to a general audience something of the life, times and thoughts of a leading historian, Southeast Asianist, Sinologist and public intellectual. The interviews flesh out Professor Wang’s views on being Chinese in Malaya; his experience of living and working in Malaysia, Singapore and Australia; the Vietnam War; Hong Kong an…
Connecting Seas and Connected Ocean Rims: Indian, Atlantic, and Pacific Oceans and China Seas Migrations from the 1830s to the 1930s
Long-distance migration of peoples have been a central if little understood factor in global integration. The essays in this collection contribute to a new history of world migrations, written by specialists of particular areas of the world. Collectively these essays point towards a shift from the regional migrations of individual seas and oceans of the early modern era toward nineteenth-century labor migrations that connected the Pacific and Ind…
China's historical place reclaimed
Additional informationNotes on contributorsGungwu WangGungwu Wang is a Professor and Chairman of the East Asian Institute at the National University of Singapore, an Emeritus Professor of the Australian National University, and a Fellow and former President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. His forthcoming book is Renewal: The Chinese State in a Global Society
Lee Kuan Yew through the eyes of Chinese scholars
A compilation of essays by highly-respected Chinese scholars in which they evaluate the life, work and philosophy of Lee Kuan Yew, founding Prime Minister of Singapore. Presenting a range of views from a uniquely Chinese/Asian perspective, this book provides valuable insights for those who wish to gain a fuller and deeper understanding of Lee Kuan Yew, the man, as well as Singapore, his nation
Nanyang: Essays on Heritage
This volume is a book of reflections and encounters about the region that the Chinese knew as Nanyang. The essays in it look back at the years of uncertainty after the end of World War II and explore the period largely through images of mixed heritages in Malaysia and Singapore. They also look at the trends towards social and political divisiveness following the years of decolonization in Southeast Asia. Never far in the background is the struggl…
Global History and Migrations
Silk roads and the centrality of Old World Eurasia
The Chinese have been changing throughout their history. The China before the Qin–Han unification was quite different from imperial China. After the fall of the Han dynasty, what was “China” went through a very turbulent period of three centuries. The Chinese economy declined rapidly after 1840. The Deng Xiaoping era saw the use of economic weapons to ensure development and create the platform for the wealth and power that Chinese would need to f…
Dear China: Emigrant Letters and Remittances, 1820-1980
Qiaopi is the name given to the “silver letters” Chinese emigrants sent home in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These letters-cum-remittances, which were entered into UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register in 2013, document the changing history of the Chinese diaspora in different parts of the world and in different periods, as well as its linkages to China. The qiaopi trade played a big part in making China transnational. This book, the f…
China Reconnects: Joining a Deep-rooted Past to a New World Order
"The book shows how the Chinese are now confident of their capacity to learn all they need from the developed world and are keen to know which parts of the past they would need to build a modern Chinese civilization. They are very conscious of the challenges coming from the United States, and are looking for ways and means to respond to a superpower that wants to preserve its dominant position in the international status quo. The book seeks to ex…
China Reconnects: Joining a Deep-Rooted Past to a New World Order
Webinar Transcript — Chinese Diaspora in the Modern World: In Conversation with Wang Gungwu
History (11 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · China (7 works) · History (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Socioeconomic Development in Asia (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · History (4 works)