Background
WANG, Doctor of Philosophy was born on October 9, 1930 in Indonesia. Son of Wang Fo Wen and Ting Yien.
historian and university vicechancellor
WANG, Doctor of Philosophy was born on October 9, 1930 in Indonesia. Son of Wang Fo Wen and Ting Yien.
National Central University, Nanking, University of Malaya and University of London.
Assistant lecturer University of Malaya, Singapore 1957-1959, lecturer 1959. Lecturer, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 1959-1961, Senior Lecturer 1961-1963, Dean of Arts 1962-1963, Professor, of History 1963-1968. Rockefeller Fellow, University of London 1961-1962, Senior Visiting Fellow 1972.
Professor, of Far Eastern History, A.N.U. 1968-1986, Emeritus Professor, Director Research School of Pacific Studies 1975-1980.
Visiting Fellow, All Souls College Oxford 1974-1975. John A. Bums Distinguished Visiting Professor, of History, University of Hawaii 1979.
Rose Morgan Visiting Professor, of History, University of Kansas 1983. Vice-Chancellor, University of Hong Kong since 1986.
Fellow and Honorary Correspondent.
President Australian Academy, of the Humanities 1980-1983, Asian Studies Association of Australia 1978-1980. Chairman Australia-China Council 1984-1986, Environmental Pollution Advisory Committee since 1988, Council for the Performing Arts since 1989.
Foreign Hong Kong of Royal Society of Arts since 1987. Of numerous committees, et cetera
Married Margaret Lim Ping-Ting in 1955.