Professor Wang Gungwu is the Chairman of the
East Asian Institute and University Professor, National University of
Singapore. He is also Emeritus Professor of the Australian National University.
His books since 2003 include, in English: Damage Control: The Chinese Communist Party
in the Jiang Zemin Era (Times Academic, 2003); Only Connect!: Sino-Malay Encounters (Times Academic, 2003); China and the Chinese Overseas (Times Academic, 2003); Don't Leave Home: Migration and the Chinese (Times Academic, 2003);
Ideas Won't Keep: The Struggle for
China's Future (Times Academic, 2003); Anglo-Chinese Encounters since 1800: War, Trade, Science and Governance
(Cambridge, 2003); Bind Us in Time: Nation and
Civilisation in Asia (Times
Academic, 2003); To Act is to Know: Chinese
Dilemmas (Times
Academic, 2003); Diasporic Chinese
Ventures, edited by Gregor Benton and Liu Hong (Routledge, 2004); and Divided China: Preparing for Reunification,
883-947 (World Scientific, 2007).
Those in Chinese include 移民及兴起的中国 (Migrants and
China's Rise, 2005); and 离乡别土：境外看中华. (China and Its
Cultures: From the Periphery, 2007). He also published in Japanese: 中华文明と中国のゆくえ (Chinese
Civilization and China's Road Ahead, 2007).
He also edited The Iraq War and Its Consequences: Thoughts of Nobel Peace Laureates and
Eminent Scholars (World Scientific, 2003); Nation-building: Five Southeast Asian
Histories (ISEAS, 2005); Interpreting
China's Development (World Scientific, 2007); China and the New International Order (Routledge, 2008); and Voice of Malayan Revolution: The CPM Radio
War Against Singapore and Malaysia 1969-1981 (Select Books, 2009).
Professor Wang received his B.A. (Hons) and M.A.
degrees from the University of Malaya in Singapore, and his PhD at the
University of London (1957). His teaching career took him from the University
of Malaya (Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, 1957-1968, Professor of History 1963-68)
to The Australian National University (1968-1986), where he was Professor and
Head of the Department of Far Eastern History and Director of the Research of
Pacific Studies. From 1986 to 1995, he was Vice-Chancellor of the University of
Hong Kong. He was Director of East Asian Institute of NUS from 1997 to 2007.
