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Does home have to be a country or a city? ... Or is home this house or that? We have been fortunate...We seemed always to have been home.
Wang Gungwu, historian of grand themes and broad perspectives, has held positions in universities around the world, from London and Cambridge to Kuala Lumpur, Canberra, Hong Kong and Singapore. This second volume of his memoirs, written with his wife Margaret, continues the very personal story begun in Home is Not Here.
Wang's account of his years at the University of Malaya, captures the excitement, the ambition — and the naïveté — of young English-educated elites being prepared for leadership by the departing colonial power. He introduces us to some outstanding personalities of this founding generation of two nations, including young medical student Mahathir Mohamad.
We also see these years from Margaret's perspective, her own fascinating family story, and her impressions of this young bearded poet. The exploration of the emotional and intellectual journey towards the formation of an identity, treasured by readers of Home is Not Here, extends in this volume into an appreciation of love, family life, and the life of the mind.
Wise and moving, this is a fascinating reflection on identity and belonging, and on the ability of the individual to find a place amidst the historical currents that have shaped Asia and the world.
Contents
Part One: Fitting In
Soft Landing
A Mixed Start
Whose Literature?
Verse Making
Free to Enjoy
Manila Alert
Part Two: My New Frame
What is a Nation?
Colony
Political Education
Part Three: Pairing Lives
Meeting Margaret
Mother Tung
Father Lim
Learn to Share
Part Four: Double Vision
World of Learning
Distant History
Why 10th Century
Meeting Sinology Halfway
EngLit England
Part Five: Make a Family
Reunion, Marriage
Cambridge to London
Birth of a Baby
Part Six: Great Place to Work
Closer to Home
Move to KL
Whose Region?
Part Seven: Globalizing?
Enter the Cold War
New World Report
East Coast Centres
Margaret's America
Malaysia
Producing A Survey
Part Eight: Roots
Three Generations
We Build a House
Settling Down
Part Nine: The Unexpected
1965: Down Under
1965: Reorient
National History
Revolutions
East Asian Focus
Take a Break
Wrapping Up
Epilogue: Home is Where We Are
Appendix: Writings Related to My Malaya Home
Index