Wang Gungwu

Wang Gungwu AO CBE is University Professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University.

Wang's recent articles

Asian voice: Wang Gungwu (East Asia Forum Oct 9, 2020)

Against the backdrop of thecurrent tensionbetween China and the United States, Wang Gungwus contribution to mutual understanding between East and West is more essential now than ever.

WANG GUNGWU. The China lesson (East Asia Forum 26.4.20)

In the months since the Wuhan lockdown to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, there is reason to feel sadder if not wiser. How quickly the Beijing government gathered its national resources to help the province of Hubei was impressive.

WANG GUNWU. Chinas rise this time is different (East Asia Forum, 29 September 2019)

On 1 October China will be celebrating the 70 years of unification that followed Mao Zedongs victory over the Nationalist regime in 1949. Many thought that had brought about the rise that the Chinese peoples had been waiting for since the beginning of the 20th century. But it was not to be. After the Great Leap Forward and Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution had nearly destroyed all that Mao had established, there were doubts that China would ever rise.

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