No Borders

No Borders is the personal story of how one of the world's leading historians of China and Asia came to understand the modern world through a life lived across cultures, continents and some of the twentieth century's most significant historical moments.

Born in the Dutch East Indies at the start of the 1930s, Wang Gungwu was to study at the National Central University in China before the Revolution, at the University of Malaya (Singapore) and at the University of London, before finding that serious scholarship of historical and contemporary China could only be undertaken from a greater distance, at The Australian National University.

Later, Wang would serve as Vice-Chancellor of Hong Kong University during the lead-up to the handover of this island from Britain back to China, before returning to Singapore.

To read this autobiography is to spend memorable time with a singular, urbane intellectual discussing the intersection of competing forces of order and disorder within turbulent decades across both the East and West. A vivid historical and personal portrait is here enriched by thoughtful insight and deeply learned reflection.