ABSTRACT
Wang Gungwu, as so many knowledgeable academics in Chinese Studies and more around the world have known for so many years, is a great writer and very distinguished scholar, producing abundant works and demonstrating first-rate scholarship in such strictly professional fields as the history and sociology of overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia; theorization of the Chinese migration; division and reunification in ancient China; cultural and intellectual interpretation of the history of China through ancient and modern times, and methodology in the research of Asian history. Especially in the first two fields, his scholarship and scholarly contribution can be undoubtedly regarded as the best in the world.1
