{"id":27182,"date":"2020-11-20T15:34:26","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T07:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/?p=27182"},"modified":"2021-01-08T15:10:12","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T07:10:12","slug":"home-is-where-we-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2020\/11\/20\/home-is-where-we-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Home is Where We Are"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_27184\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27184\" style=\"width: 254px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-27184\" src=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/11\/HomeisWhereweAre_NUSPress-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/11\/HomeisWhereweAre_NUSPress-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/11\/HomeisWhereweAre_NUSPress.jpg 661w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27184\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: NUS Press<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The Straits Times\u2019<\/em> \u201cSingapore Shelf\u201d featured Professor Wang Gungwu\u2019s (NUS History) <em>Home is Where We Are<\/em> (NUS Press, 2020) as the best pick among recently published local books. Each month, \u201cSingapore Shelf\u201d selects its top five picks from \u201chot-off-the-press home-grown books\u201d to recommend to its readers in genres ranging from fiction to non-fiction and even instructional books.<\/p>\n<p>Prof Wang, a celebrated historian and the winner of the 2020 Tang Prize in Sinology, wrote this book with his wife, the late Mrs Margaret Wang, as a second volume to his memoir <em>Home is Not Here <\/em>(NUS Press, 2018). In an interview with <em>The Straits Times<\/em>, Prof Wang recounts the story of his family that inspired this second memoir. Through his family\u2019s frequent relocation from city to city, Prof Wang learnt that home is not defined by a space, but \u201c[can] be found wherever we [are]\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><em>Home is Where We<\/em> <em>Are<\/em> accounts for twenty years of Prof Wang\u2019s life, beginning from his enrolment in the University of Malaya during the tail-end of Singapore\u2019s colonial era. Recognised as a promising poet in 1950, his poems featured in Singapore\u2019s first book of poetry, <em>Pulse<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Reminiscing about his time with Mrs Wang, Prof Wang recalls her lamenting over the limited knowledge she had of her parents\u2019 history. This realisation led to Mrs Wang\u2019s decision to immortalise their history for their three children by writing this memoir with him. Composed of Prof Wang\u2019s narrative with excerpts from Mrs Wang, <em>Home is Where We Are<\/em> beautifully encapsulates their lifelong conversations.<\/p>\n<p>Get the book <a href=\"https:\/\/nuspress.nus.edu.sg\/collections\/books\/products\/home-is-where-we-are\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/life\/arts\/singapore-shelf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Straits Times\u2019 \u201cSingapore Shelf\u201d featured Professor Wang Gungwu\u2019s (NUS History) Home is Where We Are (NUS Press, 2020) as the best pick among recently published local books. Each month, \u201cSingapore Shelf\u201d selects its top five picks from \u201chot-off-the-press home-grown books\u201d to recommend to its readers in genres ranging from fiction to non-fiction and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":27184,"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":[4529],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27182","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=27182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27582,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27182\/revisions\/27582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}