{"id":26848,"date":"2020-10-19T16:47:49","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T08:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/?p=26848"},"modified":"2020-10-19T16:47:49","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T08:47:49","slug":"revisiting-a-legend-aged-90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2020\/10\/19\/revisiting-a-legend-aged-90\/","title":{"rendered":"Revisiting a legend aged 90"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo: NUS News<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In celebration of Professor Wang Gungwu\u2019s 90th<\/sup> birthday and imminent book release, NUS conducted an interview with him at the Bukit Timah campus. It becomes clear as the meeting unfolds, delving through his time in Southeast Asia, China, and the West, that Singapore has been very fortunate to have kept the renowned scholar working and proactively building an academic community at NUS since the 1990s.<\/p>\n

Prof Gungwu was the founding Chairman of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and former Chairman of the NUS East Asian Institute – institutions that served to promote Singapore\u2019s growing stature within the international academic community, as well as fulfilling the task of educating the nation\u2019s own aspiring next generation. His appraisal of the NUS work environment focuses on the singular theme of \u2018intellectual freedom\u2019, stating that \u201cI was never told what to do\u201d and that the university is committed to \u201coffering freedom to the scholar.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018Home is Where We Are\u2019, the 2nd<\/sup> volume of Prof Gungwu\u2019s memoir, will be published by NUS Press on 20th<\/sup> October 2020. Co-written with his wife Margaret of 65 years, who sadly passed away earlier this year, the memoir frames their life together from her perspective, adding an intimate layer of detail from those closest to him. Identity, belonging, and personal history permeate the pages of this definitive autobiography. Discover both volumes at NUS Press here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Upon concluding the interview, Prof Gungwu returns to his office at a muted and sparsely populated NUS, a campus that has been severely disrupted, as so many other university campuses have been, during the ongoing pandemic. Yet as the professor\u2019s own life story reveals in both the interview and his memoirs, adverse moments in history must be well met, lived through, and overcome, as only then can the spirit of curiosity and excellence flourish.<\/p>\n

Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In celebration of Professor Wang Gungwu\u2019s 90th birthday and imminent book release, NUS conducted an interview with him at the Bukit Timah campus. It becomes clear as the meeting unfolds, delving through his time in Southeast Asia, China, and the West, that Singapore has been very fortunate to have kept the renowned scholar working and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":26849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26850,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26848\/revisions\/26850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}