Diasporic Chinese ventures : the life and work of Wang Gungwu

Title
  1. Diasporic Chinese ventures : the life and work of Wang Gungwu / edited by Gregor Benton and Hong Liu.
Published by
  1. London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2004.

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Additional authors
  1. Benton, Gregor.
  2. Liu, Hong, 1962-
Description
  1. ix, 246 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Series statement
  1. Chinese worlds
Uniform title
  1. Chinese worlds.
Alternative title
  1. Life and work of Wang Gungwu
Subject
  1. Wang, Gungwu
  2. Wang, Gungwu, 1930-
  3. Scholars > Australia > Biography
  4. 15.01 historiography
  5. Scholars
  6. Historici
  7. Chinezen
  8. Diaspora
  9. Australia
Genre/Form
  1. Biographies.
  2. Festschrifts (form)
  3. Biographies (form)
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.