ABSTRACT

This collection of essays by and about Wang Gungwu brings together some of Wang's most recent and representative writing about the ethnic Chinese outside China giving the reader a deeper understanding of his views on migration, identity, nationalism and culture, all key issues in modern Asia's transformation. The book collects interviews, speeches and essays that illustrate the development and direction of Wang's scholarship on ethnic and diasporic Chinese.

chapter |9 pages

Introduction

part |94 pages

Reflections

chapter |8 pages

Local and National

A dialogue between tradition and modernity 1

chapter |21 pages

State And Faith

Secular values in Asia and the West 1

chapter |16 pages

Secular China 1

chapter |15 pages

Mixing Memory And Desire

Tracking the migrant cycles 1

part |84 pages

Reflections

chapter |18 pages

Ethnic Chinese

The past in their future 1

chapter |12 pages

New Migrants

How new? Why new? 1