Outstanding Service Award

Professor WANG Gungwu

PhD (London), MA, BA (Hons) (University of Malaya)
Director, East Asian Institute

“ I am always interested in things around me, how could I not be an insider? But as an outsider, I do see things slightly more objectively, this is a pattern of my life. ”

• Eminent South-east Asian historian.
• Leading scholar and prolific author of the Chinese diaspora and Chinese identity.
• Internationally-respected China expert.

• Faculty Professor, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences since 1997;
• Distinguished Professorial Fellow, Institute of South-east Asian Studies, 1996-2002.

• Chairman, Board of Trustees, Institute of South-east Asian Studies since 2002;
• Member, Board of Governors, Institute of Policy Studies since 2002;
• Chairman, The Advisory Committee on Chinese Programmes since 2002;
• Vice-Chairman, Board of Governors, Chinese Heritage Centre since 2001;
• Member, Board of Governors, Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Nanyang Technological University since 1998;
• Advisor, National Heritage Board since 1999;
• President, Tan Kah Kee International Society since 1996;
• Chairman, Institute of East Asian Political Economy, 1996-1997.

• Member, China Research Institute, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London since 2002;
• Board Member, Social Science Research Council, New York since 1999;
• Honorary Research Fellow, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing since 1996;
• Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1994;
• Member, Academia Sinica, Taiwan since 1993;
• Emeritus Professor, Australian National University since 1988;
• Vice-Chancellor, Hong Kong University, 1986-1995;
• President, Australian Academy of the Humanities 1980-1983;
• Director, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1975-1980;
• Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford University, 1974-1975;
• Senior Visiting Fellow, University of London, 1972;
• Fellow, Australian Academy of the Humanities since 1971;
• Member, Editorial Board, or Advisory Editor of many international journals including Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, The China Journal, Japanese Journal of Political Science, and Asian Studies.

• delivered the Herb Feith lecture, Monash University, 2004;
• delivered the Smuts Commonwealth Lectures, University of Cambridge, 2000;
• delivered the Edwin Reischauer Lectures, Harvard University, 1997;
• Academic Prize, Fukuoka Asian Culture Prizes, 1994