Power and Identity in the Chinese World Order: Festschrift by Billy So

By Billy So

This ebook is a party of the existence, paintings, and impression of Professor Wang Gungwu during the last 4 a long time. It commemorates his contribution to the research of chinese language background and the abiding impact he has exercised over later generations of historians, relatively within the Asia-Pacific region.

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This repellent revival of 'yellow-penlism' could, Wang Gungwu: The Historian in His Times perhaps, be seen as an atavistic reverse spin on the 'Asian Miracle'. In any event we have, mercifully, heard less of it lately. 31 ' Gungwu's concern to allay fears about China and the Chinese overseas is of long standing and forms a consistent part of his historical calling. T h e nervousness of Southeast Asian peoples about both, so obvious and so disturbing to anyone w h o had grown up among the Chinese minority in the region, had originated in the period of China's emergence from dynastic rule and foreign oppression.

In this chapter, I use the term 'Overseas Chinese' to mean 'Chinese, and their descendants, living outside China' (where 'China' is understood to include Taiwan). 2. Gungwu's account of his o w n life appears in The Chinese Way China's Position in International Relations, pp 79—86; and in 'Imagining the Chinese Diaspora: T w o Australian Perspectives', pp. 1—10. 3 Published in 1957 as The Nanhai Trade 4. It was at SOAS where he and I first met, as students in R o n a l d Dore's class in intermediate Japanese.

In striking contrast to the E u r o p e a n experience, the state itself had little to do w i t h either the exploration or the commercial exploitation of that frontier. Later in the book, the maritime world is associated with China's hopes for modernization and with the 'search for autonomy' by the Chinese w h o made new lives outside China. This unequal interplay of 'Maritime China' and 'Earthbound China' has been seen a good deal in recent Chinese thinking. It was expressed metaphorically in the hugely successful television documentary River Elegy.

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