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Wang Gungwu : educator & scholar

Title
Wang Gungwu : educator & scholar / editors, Zheng Yongnian, Phua Kok Khoo.
Author
Wang, Gungwu
Publication
Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., [2013]

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Additional Authors
  • Zheng, Yongnian
  • Phua, K. K.
Description
xiv, 411 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
This book focuses on Wang Gungwu as an educator and scholar, through the use of essays written about Wang, a biographical sketch of his public and private life, and a list of over 50 books written by Wang as well as those written in honor of him.
Alternative Title
  • Wang Gungwu, educator and scholar
  • Educator & scholar
Subject
  • Wang, Gungwu
  • Education, Higher > East Asia
  • Education, Higher > Pacific Area
  • Educational change > East Asia
  • Educational change > Pacific Area
  • Education, Higher
  • Educational change
  • East Asia
  • Pacific Area
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The university and the community -- National education and the scientific tradition -- Who should pay for universities? -- A very peculiar business -- The university as a global institution -- The Asian renaissance -- Cities light torch of excellence -- Lessons closer to home -- The Asia-Pacific: region and universalism in higher education -- The modern university in Australia and Asia -- Social science and Asia -- Shifting paradigms and Asian perspectives: implications for research and teaching -- The classics and the East Asian entrepreneur -- Universities and modernity for Asia -- New interest in old powers -- Change and adaptation: NUS at 100 -- The Chinese pursuit of higher education -- New university, three generations: China, Malaya, Singapore 1949-2007 -- Versailles' Chinese legacy -- Far East looks to the future -- You've come a long way -- Academic blind spot in Asia -- English rules the waves -- Rise of Anglo-Chinese.
ISBN
  • 9789814436625
  • 9814436623
  • 9814439932
  • 9789814439930
LCCN
2012035456
OCLC
  • ocn815835214
  • 815835214
  • SCSB-1662672
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library