Wang Gungwu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Wang Gungwu

Singaporean academic

Date of Birth: 09-Oct-1930

Place of Birth: Surabaya, Indonesia

Profession: historian, sinologist

Nationality: Singapore

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Wang Gungwu, (???; ???; Wáng Gengwu; born 9 October 1930) is an Australian sinologist.
He has studied and written about the Chinese diaspora, but he has objected to the use of the word diaspora to describe the migration of Chinese from China because both it mistakenly implies that all overseas Chinese are the same and has been used to perpetuate fears of a "Chinese threat", under the control of the Chinese government.
An expert on the Chinese tianxia ("all under heaven") concept, he was the first to suggest its application to the contemporary world as an American Tianxia.