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‘I do what I’m used to doing’: Historian Wang Gungwu, 94, keeps interrogating world affairs
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Historian Wang Gungwu's new book, Roads To Chinese Modernity, is a compilation of his lectures delivered over the past 15 years.
PHOTOS: GIN TAY, WORLD SCIENTIFIC
SINGAPORE – At 94, Professor Wang Gungwu’s default mode is still that of an indefatigable lecturer.
He needs little prodding. The first question – “Were you the one who selected the lectures included in your book?” – is enough for him to launch into an account of China’s turbulent 20th century, lasting 40 minutes without so much as a sip of water.
