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Diasporic Chinese ventures : the life and work of Wang Gungwu
- Title
- Diasporic Chinese ventures : the life and work of Wang Gungwu / edited by Gregor Benton and Hong Liu.
- Publication
- London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2004.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | CT2808.W365 D53 2004 | Off-site |
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- Description
- ix, 246 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Chinese worlds
- Uniform Title
- Chinese worlds.
- Alternative Title
- Life and work of Wang Gungwu
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Festschrifts (form)
- Biographies (form)
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction / Hong Liu and Gregor Benton -- Pt. I. Encounters -- 1. Looking forward, looking back: an interview with Wang Gungwu / Hong Liu -- 2. How reading the Historical Records (Shiji) helped set Wang Gungwu on the road to becoming a historian / Xiao Li -- 3. A momentous duty imposed by heaven / Te-Kong Tong -- 4. Wang Gungwu on the Nantah incident: an interview / Yuan Yaoqing -- 5. Wang Gungwu in Australia / Stephen Fitzgerald -- 6. The problems with (Chinese) diaspora: an interview with Wang Gungwu / Laurent Malvezin -- Pt. II. Reflections: Section 1. Cultural concerns -- 7. Confucius the Sage / Wang Gungwu -- 8. Local and national: a dialogue between tradition and modernity / Wang Gungwu -- 9. Reflections on networks and structures in Asia / Wang Gungwu -- 10. Chinese political culture and scholarship about the Malay world / Wang Gungwu -- 11. State and faith: secular values in Asia and the West / Wang Gungwu -- 12. Secular China / Wang Gungwu -- 13. Mixing memory and desire: tracking the migrant cycles / Wang Gungwu -- Pt. III. Reflections: Section 2. Chinese overseas in historical and comparative perspective -- 14. A single Chinese diaspora? / Wang Gungwu -- 15. Ethnic Chinese: the past in their future / Wang Gungwu -- 16. The Chinese Revolution and the overseas Chinese / Wang Gungwu -- 17. Cultural centres for the Chinese overseas / Wang Gungwu -- 18. New migrants: How new? Why new? / Wang Gungwu.
- ISBN
- 0415331420
- 9780415331425
- LCCN
- 2003013094
- OCLC
- ocm52412116
- 52412116
- SCSB-1357803
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library