Wang Gungwu

Professor Wang Gungwu is the Chairman of the East Asian Institute and University Professor, National University of Singapore. He is also Emeritus Professor of the Australian National University.

His books since 2008 include, in English: The Eurasian Core and its Edges: Dialogues with Wang Gungwu on the history of the world. (2015); Another China Cycle: Committing to Reform (2014); Renewal: The Chinese State and the New Global History (2013); Wang Gungwu: Educator and Scholar, edited by Zheng Yongnian and Phua Kok Khoo (2013); Wang Gungwu, Junzi, Scholar-gentleman, edited by Asad Latif (2010).

Those in Chinese include《更新中国：国家与新全球史》;《天下华人》; 《1800年以来的中英碰撞：战爭、贸易、科学及治理》(all in 2016); 《五代时期北方中国的权力结构》(2014).

Professor Wang is a Commander of the British Empire (CBE); Fellow, and former President, of the Australian Academy of the Humanities; Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Science; Member of Academia Sinica; Honorary Member of the Chinese Academy of Social Science. He was conferred the International Academic Prize, Fukuoka Asian Cultural Prizes.

Professor Wang received his B.A. (Hons) and M.A. degrees from the University of Malaya in Singapore, and his Ph.D. at the University of London (1957). His teaching career took him from the University of Malaya (Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, 1957-1968, Professor of History 1963-68) to The Australian National University (1968-1986), where he was Professor and Head of the Department of Far Eastern History and Director of the Research of Pacific Studies. From 1986 to 1995, he was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong. He was Director of East Asian Institute of NUS from 1997 to 2007.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

• Chinese History
• The Chinese Overseas
• Nationalism
• Migrations

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Books:

• The Eurasian Core and its Edges: Dialogues with Wang Gungwu on the history of the world. By Ooi Kee Beng. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Studies, 2015. 254 pages.
• 《天下华人》 广州：广东人民出版社， 2016. 275 pages
• Another China Cycle: Committing to Reform. Singapore: World Scientific, 2014. 264 pages.
• Renewal: The Chinese State and the New Global History. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2013. 172 pages.
• 《华人与中国： 王赓武自选集》. 上海：人民出版社， 2013. 376 pages.

Articles/Papers:

• “19、20 世纪新加坡华人的身份认同与忠诚”《华人研究国际学报》第八卷，第二期，12，2016，pp. 1-12.
• “China and the US: A Tale of Two Civilisations”. In Bo Zhiyue (ed.), China-US Relations in Global Perspective. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2016, pp. 27-39.
• “Hong Kong’s Twentieth Century: the Global Setting”. In Priscilla Roberts and John M. Carroll (eds.), Hong Kong in the Cold War. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2016, pp. 1-14.
• “Global History: Continental and Maritime”, Asian Review of World Histories, vol. 3, no. 2, 2015, pp. 201-218.
• “Student movements: Malaya as Outlier in Southeast Asia”, Review Article, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, vol. 44, no. 3, 2013, pp. 511-518.

Book Reviews:

• Review of Wang Wensheng, White Lotus Rebels and South China Pirates: Crisis and Reform in the Qing Empire. In International Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies, vol. 10, no. 2, 2014, pp. 201-204.
• Review of Y.Y. Kueh, Pax Sinica: Geopolitics and Economics of China’s Ascendance. In Pacific Affairs, vol. 87, no. 3, 2014, pp. 569-571.
• Review of Francois Gipouloux, The Asian Mediterranean: Port Cities and Trading Networks in China, Japan and South Asia, 13th-21st Century. In International Journal of Maritime History, vol. XXIV, no. 2, 2013, pp. 306-307.
• Review of Tracy Barrett, The Chinese Diaspora in South-east Asia: The Overseas Chinese in Indo-China. London: I.B Taurus; New York: distributed by Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. In Pacific Affairs, vol. 86, no. 7, 2013, pp. 668-670.
• Review of John Lagerway (Editor), Religion and Chinese Society. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press and Ecole francaise d’Extreme-Orient, Hong Kong and Paris, 2006. Two volumes. In International Sociology, vol. 24, no. 2, 2009, pp. 191-194.
• Review of Wm. Theodore de Bary (ed.), Sources of East Asian Tradition. Vol. 1; Premodern Asia; Vol. 2, The Modern Period. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. I: 909 pages; II: 1,152 pages. In East Asia: An International Quarterly, vol.26, no. 3, 2009, pp. 259-261.