Wang Gungwu : : Junzi: Scholar-Gentleman in Conversation with Asad-ul Iqbal Latif / / Wang Gungwu.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter ISEAS Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Gungwu, Wang,
• MitwirkendeR: Baumler, Alan,; Iqbal Latif, Asad-ul,; Koh, Tommy,; Sinha, Vineeta,; Vogel, Ezra,
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)

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 and its return to China; the rise of China; Taiwan’s, Japan’s and India’s place in the emerging scheme of things; and on the United States in an age of terrorism and war. The book includes an interview with his wife, Mrs Margaret Wang, on their life together for half a century. Two interviews by scholars on Professor Wang’s work are also included, as are his curriculum vitae and a select bibliography of his works. What comes across in this book is how Professor Wang was buffeted by feral times and hostile worlds but responded to them as a left-liberal humanist who refused to cut ideological corners. This book records his response to tumultuous times on hindsight, but with a keen sense of having lived through the times of which he speaks.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Wang Gungwu: Friend, Mentor and Role Model -- Junzi: Scholar-Gentleman -- Interviews with Professor Wang Gungwu -- Being Chinese in Malaya -- Malaysia, Singapore and Australia -- Vietnam -- Hong Kong -- China Rising -- Taiwan, Japan and India -- The United States, Terrorism and War -- Half a Century of Marriage: An Interview with Mrs Margaret Wang -- Appendices: In Conversation with Wang Gungwu -- Rethinking Chinese History in a Global Age: An Interview with Wang Gungwu -- Wang Gungwu: Curriculum Vitae -- Wang Gungwu: Select Publications -- Index