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Living with Civilisations

Gungwu Wang
Living with Civilisations
Professor Wang Gungwu is the Institute of Policy Studies' 12th S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore. This book is an edited collection of his four IPS-Nathan Lectures, delivered from November 2022 to March 2023, and includes highlights of his question-and-answer segments with our audience. The Southeast Asian region is home to a set of diverse local cultures and distinct local identities. In this lecture series, Professor Wang looks ...

CHF 63.00

Living with Civilisations

Gungwu Wang
Living with Civilisations
Professor Wang Gungwu is the Institute of Policy Studies' 12th S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore. This book is an edited collection of his four IPS-Nathan Lectures, delivered from November 2022 to March 2023, and includes highlights of his question-and-answer segments with our audience. The Southeast Asian region is home to a set of diverse local cultures and distinct local identities. In this lecture series, Professor Wang looks ...

CHF 86.00

Nanyang

Gungwu, Wang
Nanyang
This volume is a book of reflections and encounters about the region that the Chinese knew as Nanyang. The essays in it look back at the years of uncertainty after the end of World War II and explore the period largely through images of mixed heritages in Malaysia and Singapore. They also look at the trends towards social and political divisiveness following the years of decolonization in Southeast Asia. Never far in the background is the stru...

CHF 56.50

China Reconnects

Gungwu Wang
China Reconnects
The book shows how the Chinese are now confident of their capacity to learn all they need from the developed world and are keen to know which parts of the past they would need to build a modern Chinese civilization. They are very conscious of the challenges coming from the United States, and are looking for ways and means to respond to a superpower that wants to preserve its dominant position in the international status quo.The book seeks to e...

CHF 43.50

China Reconnects

Gungwu Wang
China Reconnects
The book shows how the Chinese are now confident of their capacity to learn all they need from the developed world and are keen to know which parts of the past they would need to build a modern Chinese civilization. They are very conscious of the challenges coming from the United States, and are looking for ways and means to respond to a superpower that wants to preserve its dominant position in the international status quo.The book seeks to e...

CHF 79.00

Home Is Not Here

Gungwu, Wang
Home Is Not Here
As someone who has studied history for much of my life, I have found the past fascinating. But it has always been some grand and even intimidating universe that I wanted to unpick and explain to myself. Wang Gungwu is one of Asia's most important public intellectuals. He is best-known for his explorations of Chinese history in the long view, and for his writings on the Chinese diaspora. With Home is Not Here, the historian of grand themes turn...

CHF 31.50

Anglo-Chinese Encounters since 1800

Gungwu, Wang
Anglo-Chinese Encounters since 1800
Wang Gungwu's study of the relationship between China and the Chinese with imperial Britain examines the possibilities, as well as the limits of their encounters. Beyond the cliché s of opium, fighting, and the diplomatic skills needed to fend off rivals and enemies, Gungwu probes areas of more intimate encounters, not least of which is the beginning of a broader English-speaking future between the two countries.

CHF 50.90

China and the New International Order

Gungwu, Wang / Yongnian, Zheng
China and the New International Order
Explores China's place in the international order, from both the international perspective, and from the perspective within China. This book discusses how far the international order, as viewed by the United States and with the United States seeing itself as the single dominant power, applies to China.

CHF 190.00

China and the New International Order

Gungwu, Wang / Yongnian, Zheng
China and the New International Order
This book explores China's place in the 'new international order', from both the international perspective and from the perspective within China. It discusses how far the new international order, as viewed by the US and with the US seeing itself as the single dominant power, applies to China.

CHF 83.00