Being Chinese overseas

Professor Wang Gungwu's considerable body of work on the overseas Chinese was recognised last month by the Tang Prize Foundation of Taiwan, which conferred on him the Tang Prize for Sinology.
Professor Wang Gungwu's considerable body of work on the overseas Chinese was recognised last month by the Tang Prize Foundation of Taiwan, which conferred on him the Tang Prize for Sinology.ST FILE PHOTO
Published
Jul 12, 2020, 5:00 am SGT

Wang Gungwu did not set out to study the history of the overseas Chinese, but he is now renowned in this relatively new field

Global Affairs Correspondent
suinoi@sph.com.sg

Professor Wang Gungwu is the quintessential overseas Chinese.

He was born in Surabaya, Indonesia, in 1930. He grew up in Ipoh in what is now Malaysia and went to university in Nanjing, Singapore and London.

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