WANG GUNGWU
Wang Gungwu is the Director of the East Asian
Institute at the National University of Singapore. Professor Wang was Vice-Chancellor of The
University of Hong Kong from 1986 to 1995, and was Chairman of The Institute of
East Asian Political Economy (1996-1997) before it was reconstituted as The
East Asian Institute. He is also Faculty Professor, Faculty of Arts and Social
Sciences, National University of Singapore (NUS), and Emeritus Professor,
He
holds many appointments and awards, among which include:
In
Singapore, Member of Council, NUS; Member, Board of Governors, Institute of
Policy Studies; Distinguished Professorial Fellow, Institute of Southeast Asian
Studies; Vice-Chairman, Board of Governors, Chinese Heritage Centre; Member, Board of Governors, Institute of Defence and
Strategic Studies, Nanyang Technological University; President, Tan Kah Kee
International Society; Member, National Library Board; Advisor, National
Heritage Board.
Outside
Singapore, Chairman, International Advisory Council, Universiti Tunku Abdul
Rahman (UTAR); Fellow, Australian Academy of the Humanities (President,
1980-1983); Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Science;
Member, Academia Sinica, Taipei; Honorary Research Fellow, Chinese Academy of
Social Sciences, Beijing; Co-Patron, AsiaLink, University of Melbourne;
Chairman, Board of Governors, Asia Scholarship Foundation, Bangkok; Board Member, Social Science Research Council, New
York; Member, Advisory Committee, Cambridge University East Asia Institute;
Member, International Advisory Board, Institute of Asian Research, The
University of British Columbia.
He
is also member of Editorial Board or Advisory Editor of many international
journals, including Journal of Southeast
Asian Studies, The China Journal,
The China Quarterly, Modern Asian Studies, Japanese Journal of Political Science, China Studies, Pacific Affairs The Pacific Review, Contemporary Southeast Asia, The Round Table, Asian Studies Review, Asian
Culture, and Journal of the Malaysian
Branch, Royal Asiatic Society.
Professor Wang earned his PhD in History from the