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With China's transformation into a republic after two millennia as an empire as the starting point, Ooi Kee Beng prompts renowned historian Wang Gungwu through a series of interviews to discuss China, Europe, Southeast Asia and India. What emerges is an exciting and original World History that is neither Eurocentric…
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Global history is as yet a novel subject, even for the most insightful of historians. What Wang Gungwu, in his long conversations with Ooi Kee Beng, presents is a sweeping tapestry of human history that puts the focus on the Eurasian continent and its oft-forgotten actor, the Central Asian horseman.
"Modern Times," according to Wang Gungwu, "is Maritime." The ship took the place of the horse and thus changed the geopolitics of the world, bringing distrustful civilizational ends of the Eurasian Continent into uneasy contact with each other.
Ooi Kee Beng does a brilliant job of extracting Gungwu’s wisdom and…
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