Contents -- Preface -- About the Editors -- Part I Wang Gungwu on Higher Education -- 1 The University and the Community -- The University and the Community -- 2 National Education and the Scientific Tradition -- 3 Who Should Pay for Universities? -- 4 A Very Peculiar Business -- 5 The University as a Global Institution -- From Periphery to Centre -- Unity in Diversity -- Propensity for Free Trade in Knowledge and Ideas -- Alternative Visions -- 6 The Asian Renaissance -- 7 Cities Light Torch of Excellence -- 8 Lessons Closer to Home -- 9 The Asia-Pacific: Region and Universalism in Higher Education -- What Regionalism Means in Asia-Pacific -- The Universalism Phenomenon -- The Four Approaches to Standards of Excellence -- 10 The Modern University in Australia and Asia -- The Heritage -- The Challenge -- 11 Social Science and Asia -- Stages of Knowledge Evolution -- Changing Political Climates -- Creativity of Asian Origins -- Amartya Sen -- Ranajit Guha -- Edward Said -- Francis Fukuyama -- Kenichi Ohmae -- Variously "Asian" Creativity -- The Fact of Unshared Histories -- The Challenge of Social Science in Asia -- 12 Shifting Paradigms and Asian Perspectives: Implications for Research and Teaching -- Situational shifts -- Knowledge-driven shifts brought to Asia -- Notes -- 13 The Classics and the East Asian Entrepreneur -- 14 Universities and Modernity for Asia -- First, what kind of modernity should universities be committed to? -- This leads to my second question. Should universities in Asia today continue to accept the criteria of excellence identified in the developed West? -- Perhaps one could ask, how far should universities go to pursue the goal of modernity? -- 15 New Interest in Old Powers -- 16 Change and Adaptation: NUS at 100 -- The Horizons of Different Singapores -- The first Singapore -- The second Singapore -- The third Singapore.

Academic Transitions -- 17 The Chinese Pursuit of Higher Education -- The Heritage -- Willingness to Change -- Double Reaction: from Mao to Deng -- 18 New University, Three Generations: China, Malaya, Singapore 1949-2007 -- The China Presence -- The Malaya Dream -- The Singapore Remaking -- Concluding Thoughts -- 19 Versailles' Chinese Legacy -- 20 Commonwealth Universities in Eastern Asia -- Future Challenges -- 21 You've Come a Long Way -- 22 Academic Blind Spot in Asia -- 23 English Rules the Waves -- 24 Rise of Anglo-Chinese -- Part II Wang Gungwu and His Works -- His Authored Works -- The Nanhai Trade: The Early History of Chinese Trade in the South China Sea* -- A Short History of the Nanyang Chinese -- The Structure of Power in North China during the Five Dynasties -- China and the World since 1949: The Impact of Independence, Modernity and Revolution -- Community and Nation: Essays on Southeast Asia and the Chinese -- Community and Nation: China, Southeast Asia and Australia (New Edition) -- Southeast Asia and the Chinese -- The Use of History -- China and the Chinese Overseas -- The Chineseness of China - Selected Essays -- The Chinese Way: China's Position in International Relations -- China and Southeast Asia: Myths, Threats and Culture -- Joining the Modern World: Inside and Outside China -- The Chinese Overseas: From Earthbound China to the Quest for Autonomy -- Don't Leave Home: Migration and the Chinese -- Selected Works of Wang Gungwu -- Bind Us in Time: Nation and Civilisation in Asia -- Anglo-Chinese Encounters since 1800: War, Trade, Science and Governance -- Ideas Won't Keep: The Struggle for China's Future -- Only Connect! Sino-Malay Encounters -- To Act is to Know: Chinese Dilemmas -- Migrants and the Rise of China -- China and its Cultures: from the Periphery -- Divided China: Preparing for Reunification 883-947*.

His Edited and Co-edited Works -- Malaysia: A Survey -- Essays on the Sources for Chinese History -- Self and Biography: Essays on the Individual and Society in Asia -- Hong Kong: Dilemmas of Growth -- Society and the Writer: Essays on Literature in Modern Asia -- Changing Identities of the Southeast Asian Chinese since World War II -- Hong Kong's Transition: A Decade after the Deal -- Hong Kong History: New Perspectives -- Dynamic Hong Kong: Business and Culture -- Global History and Migrations -- Hong Kong in the Asia-Pacific Region: Rising to the New Challenges -- China's Political Economy -- The Chinese Diaspora: Selected Essays Volumes I and II -- China: Two Decades of Reform and Change -- Hong Kong in China: The Challenges of Transition -- Reform, Legitimacy and Dilemmas: China's Politics and Society -- Wang Fo-wen, 1903-1972: a Memorial Collection of Poems, Essays and Calligraphy -- Damage Control: The Chinese Communist Party in the Jiang Zemin Era -- The Iraq War and its Consequences: Thoughts of Nobel Peace Laureates and Eminent Scholars -- Maritime China in Transition 1750-1850 -- Nation-Building: Five Southeast Asian Histories -- China and the New International Order -- China's Ideological Battles since the May Fourth Movement -- Voice of Malayan Revolution: The CPM Radio War against Singapore and Malaysia, 1969-1981 -- Festschrifts -- The Life and Sentiment of a Scholar: Anthology of Professor Wang Gungwu's Interviews and Speeches Edited -- Overseas Chinese Studies: New Horizon and Direction - Collected Essays by Professor Wang Gungwu -- Power and Identity in the Chinese World Order: Festschrift in Honour of Professor Wang Gungwu -- Diasporic Chinese Ventures: The Life and Work of Wang Gungwu -- Part III Chronology of Wang Gungwu -- 1930 Surabaya -- 1931 Surabaya Ipoh -- 1936 Ipoh -- 1941-1945 Ipoh under Japanese Occupation -- 1945 Ipoh.

1946 Ipoh -- 1947 Ipoh Nanjing -- 1948 Nanjing -- 1949 Ipoh Singapore -- 1950 Singapore -- 1951 Singapore -- 1952 Singapore -- 1953 Singapore -- 1954 Singapore London -- 1955 London -- 1956 London -- 1957 London Singapore -- 1958 Singapore -- 1959 Singapore Kuala Lumpur -- 1960 Kuala Lumpur -- 1961 Kuala Lumpur London -- 1962 London Kuala Lumpur -- 1963 Kuala Lumpur -- 1964 Kuala Lumpur -- 1965 Kuala Lumpur -- 1966 Kuala Lumpur -- 1967 Kuala Lumpur -- 1968 Kuala Lumpur Canberra -- 1969 Canberra -- 1970 Canberra -- 1971 Canberra -- 1972 Canberra -- 1973 Canberra -- 1974 Canberra Oxford -- 1975 Canberra Oxford -- 1976 Canberra -- 1977 Canberra -- 1978 Canberra -- 1979 Canberra -- 1980 Canberra -- 1981 Canberra Honolulu -- 1982 Canberra -- 1983 Canberra Lawrence, Kansas -- 1984 Canberra -- 1985 Canberra -- 1986 Canberra Hong Kong -- 1987 Hong Kong -- 1988 Hong Kong -- 1989 Hong Kong -- 1990 Hong Kong -- 1991 Hong Kong -- 1992 Hong Kong -- 1993 Hong Kong -- 1994 Hong Kong -- 1995 Hong Kong -- 1996 Singapore -- 1997 Singapore -- 1998 Singapore -- 1999 Singapore -- 2000 Singapore -- 2001 Singapore -- 2002 Singapore -- 2003 Singapore -- 2004 Singapore -- 2005 Singapore -- 2006 Singapore -- 2007 Singapore -- 2008 Singapore -- 2009 Singapore -- 2010 Singapore -- 2011 Singapore -- 2012 Singapore -- Index.