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Education and Career
Doctor of Philosophy (East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore, 2002), Master of Arts (History)(Universiti Sains Malaysia, 1999), Bachelor of Arts (Hons) (Major in History, Minor in Literature)(School of Humanities, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 1996).
Currently research fellow, Centre for Chinese Language and Culture, Nanyang, with teaching responsibilities in the Division of Chinese, Nanyang Technological University since September 2004. Prior to that, research Officer at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore, from May 2002 to August 2004
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Honors
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Publications
Articles
“Weakening Ties with the Ancestral Homeland in China: The Case Studies of Contemporary Singapore and Malaysian Chinese,” Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 39, Part 3 (2005): 559-597.
Book Chapters
“Social Aspects of Economic Reform,” (co-authored with Lang Youxing and Zhou Xiaozhuang) Analysing China: Commemorating EAI's 5th Anniversary, John Wong, Aw Beng Teck and Lai Hongyi (eds.), Singapore: East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore (2002), pp. 80-91.
“The Wenzhou Diaspora,” EAI Background Brief No. 161. Singapore: East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore, 10 July 2003.
“Popular China Premier and Beleaguered HK Chief Executive,” EAI Bulletin, Vol. 5, Issue 2 (September 2003): 9.
“The Hong Kong SAR Government, Civil Society and SARS” (co-authored with Elsepth Thomson), The SARS Epidemic: Challenges to China’s Crisis Management, John Wong and Zheng Yongnian (eds.), Singapore: World Scientific, 2004, pp. 199-220.
“China-Malaysia Relations: Expanding Common Interest.” EAI Background Brief No. 207. Singapore: East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore, 9 September 2004.
“Lisan zhong de ningju: Panyu huiguan gongneng de fahui yu juxian” 离散中的凝聚：番禺会馆功能的发挥与局限 (Cohesion within the Dispersion: The Functionality of Panyu Associations) in Maritime Asia and the Chinese Overseas, 1405-2005 (Proceedings of the Third International Conference of Institutes & Libraries for Chinese Overseas Studies, in Singapore, organized by Inter-Agency Committee on the Chinese Overseas Databank & Research, Singapore, and Ohio University Libraries, Athens, in association with International Zheng He Society, Singapore, 18-20 August 2005), Vol. 2.
“From Old Country to New Nation: A Historical Review of Malaysian Chinese Writers in the 20th Century” in Lee Guan Kin (ed.), Nation-Building and Ethnic Relations: The Chinese in Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia (Singapore Society of Asian Studies and Konrad-ADENAUR Foundation, 2006).
“Zuqun yu guojia: 20 shiji de Malaixiya huawen zuojia” (族群与国家：20世纪的马来西亚的华文作家) 李元瑾主编 《族群与国家：20世纪的马来西亚华文作家》(Nation-Building and Ethnic Relations: The Chinese in Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia) (Singapore Society of Asian Studies and Konrad-ADENAUR Foundation, 2006).
“Transforming an Old Qiaoxiang: Impact of the Chinese Diaspora on Panyu, 1978-2000” in Tan Chee Beng (ed.), Chinese Overseas and China: Transnational Networks and Homelands (Routledge)( forthcoming).
“Detraditionalized and Renewed Qiaoxiang Areas: Case Studies of Panyu and Wenzhou in the Reform Period since 1978” (forthcoming in an edited book published by Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Press, Copenhagen, in cooperation of Institute of Southeast Asia Studies, Singapore).
“Guxiang, guojia, shichang: Xin Ma he Xianggang Panyu huiguan de gongneng yanbian”
故乡，国家，市场：新马和香港番禺会馆的功能演变 (Homeland, State, and Market: The Changing Functions of Panyu Associations in Singapore, Malaysia, and Hong Kong) (forthcoming).
Book Reviews
So, Billy K.L., John Fitzgerald, Huang Jianli, and James K. Chin, eds. Power and Identity in the Chinese World Order: Festschrift in Honour of Professor Wang Gungwu. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2003. In Huayinet (http://www.huayinet.org/resource/resource.htm).
Liu Hong 刘宏. Zhanhou Xinjiapo huaren shehui de shanbian: bentu qinghuai, quyu wangluo, quanqiu shiye 战后新加坡华人社会的嬗变：本土清辉，区域网络，全球视野 (The Transformation of Chinese Society in Postwar Singapore: Localizing Process, Regional Networking, and Global Perspective). Xiamen,: Xiamen Daxue Chubanshe, 2003. In Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia, March 2004 (http://kyotoreview.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/issue/issue4/index.html).
Benton, Gregor, and Hong Liu, eds. Diasporic Chinese Ventures: The Life and Work of Wang Gungwu. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004. (Accepted and forthcoming in Asian Journal of Social Science).
Ho Khai Leong 何启良, ed. Kuangzheng yu liubian: Malaixiya huaren lishi yu renwu zhengzhipian 匡正与流变：马来西亚华人历史与人物政治篇 (Malaysian Chinese History and Personalities: The Political Elites). Kuala Lumpur: Centre for Malaysian Chinese Studies, 2003; Hou Kok Chung 何国忠, ed. Jicheng yu jueze: Malaixiya huaren lishi yu renwu
wenhuapian 继承与抉择：马来西亚华人历史与人物文化篇 (Malaysian Chinese History and Personalities: The Intellectual Elites). Kuala Lumpur: Centre for Malaysian Chinese Studies, 2003; Lim Chooi Kwa 林水豪, ed. Chuangye yu hugen: Malaixiya huaren lishi yu renwu rushangpian 创业与护根：马来西亚华人历史与人物儒商篇 (Malaysian Chinese History and Personalities: The Entrepreneurial Elites). Kuala Lumpur: Centre for Malaysian Chinese Studies, 2003. (Accepted and forthcoming in Xin Jiyuan Xueyuan xuebao 新纪元学院学报 (New Era College Academic Journal)).
Compilations
“China-ASEAN Relations: Chronology of Events, January-November 2002” in China: An International Journal, Vol. 1, No. 1 (March 2003), pp. 160-168.
“China-ASEAN Relations, 2002: Important Documents” in China: An International Journal, Vol. 1, No. 1 (March 2003), pp. 169-178.
“China-ASEAN Relations: Chronology of Events, October 2002-June 2003” in China: An International Journal, Vol. 1, No. 2 (September 2003), pp. 354-362.
“China-ASEAN Relations, April 2002-April 2003: Important Documents” in China: An International Journal, Vol. 1, No. 2 (September 2003), p. 363.
“China-ASEAN Relations: Chronology of Events, April to November 2003” in China: An International Journal, Vol. 2, No. 1 (March 2004), pp. 171-184.
“China-ASEAN Relations, May-November 2003: Important Documents” in China: An International Journal, Vol. 2, No. 1 (March 2004), p. 185.
“China-ASEAN Relations, October 2003 to March 2004: Chronology of Events” in China: An International Journal, Vol. 2, No. 2 (September 2004), pp. 343-355.
“China-ASEAN Relations. August-November 2003: Important Documents” in China: An International Journal, Vol. 2, No. 2 (September 2004), pp. 356-357.
Edited Journals
With John Wong, Lai Hongyi, Jessica Loon, EAI Bulletin (Newsletter of East Asian Institute), Vol. 5, Issue 2 (September 2003).
With John Wong, He Baogang, Jessica Loon, EAI Bulletin (Newsletter of East Asian Institute), Vol. 6, Issue 1 (May 2004).
Translations
Xiao Gongqin, “The Falun Gong and Its Conflict with the Chinese Government: A Persective of Social Transformation,” Damage Control: The Chinese Communist Party in the Jiang Zemin Era, Wang Gungwu and Zheng Yongnian (eds.). Singapore: Eastern Universities Press, 2003, pp. 64-80.
Xiao Gongqin, “The “China Democratic Party” Event and Political Trends in Post-Deng China,” Damage Control: The Chinese Communist Party in the Jiang Zemin Era (eds.)., Wang Gungwu and Zheng Yongnian (eds.). Singapore: Eastern Universities Press, 2003. pp. 320-349.
Zhao Shukai, “Rural Grassroots Organisation in China: Operation Mechanism and Internal Conflict,” Damage Control: The Chinese Communist Party in the Jiang Zemin Era, Wang Gungwu and Zheng Yongnian (eds.). Singapore Eastern Universities Press, 2003, pp. 122-141.
Theses and dissertation
“The Changing Landscape of Qiaoxiang: Guangdong and the Chinese Diaspora, 1850-2000.”
PhD dissertation. East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore, 2002.
“Antara China and Tanah Tempatan Ini: Satu Kajian Pemikiran Dwipusat Penulis China 1919-1957” (Between China and This Local Land: A Study of Dual-Centred Mentality of Chinese Writers in Malaya, 1919-1957). MA thesis. Universiti Sains Malaysia, 1998.
“Pengkekalan and Perubahan: Response Masyarakat Cina di Malaysia terhadap Perkembangan Politik China 1949-1989” (Continuity and Change: The Response of Malaysian Chinese Community towards the Political Developments in China 1949-1989). BA academic exercise. Universiti Sains Malaysia, 1996.
Conference and Seminar Papers
“Between China and This Local Land: A Study of the Dual-Centred Mentality of Chinese Writers in Malaya, 1919-1957” presented at ‘The First International Academic Conference of Ethnic Chinese’ in Guangzhou, organized by Jinan University, 6-8 December 2000.
“Cong guigen qingjie dao bentuhua: yi Xin Ma Panyu huiguan wei gean yanjiu, kan haiwai huaren shetuan yu Guangdong qiaoxiang guanxi de yanbian.” 从归根情结到本土化：以新马番禺为个案研究，看海外华人社团与广东侨乡关系的演变 (From Homecoming to China to Localisation: Case Studies of Singapore and Malaysian Panyu Associations) presented at ‘The International Conference on “The Development Trends of the Guangdong Overseas Chinese Organizations’ in Guangzhou, organized by Guangdong Returned Overseas Chinese Association and Guangdong Society of Overseas Chinese Studies, 9 December 2001.
“Guxiang, guojia, shichang: Xin Ma he Xianggang Panyu huiguan de gongneng yanbian”
故乡，国家，市场：新马和香港番禺会馆的功能演变 (Homeland, State, and Market: The Changing Functions of Panyu Associations in Singapore, Malaysia, and Hong Kong) presented at ‘the Workshop on "Surfing the Interfaces of the Market, Society and the State: Chinese Social Organizations in Asian Port Cities and the Making of Business Networks’ in Singapore, organized by Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, 30-31 March 2002.
“Old Qiaoxiang Areas in the Reform Period: Case Studies of Panyu and Xinyi, 1978-2000” presented at ‘Crossing Boundaries-the 11th Biennial National Conference of the Australian Historical Association’ in Brisbane, organized by the Australian Historical Association, 3-7 July 2002.
“The Chinese Diaspora and the Changing Landscape of Qiaoxiang in Guangdong” presented at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore, 20 December 2002.
“Transforming an Old Qiaoxiang: Impacts of the Diaspora on Panyu, 1978-2000,” presented at the Second International Conference for Institute & Libraries for Overseas Chinese Studies ‘Transnational Networks: Challenges in Research and Documentation of the Chinese Overseas,’ in Hong Kong, organized by the University Library System, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Ohio University Libraries, 13-15 March 2003.
“How the Chinese Diaspora Transformed a Town in Guangdong – A Case Study of Panyu,” presented at East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore, 27 June 2003.
“The Hong Kong SAR Government, Civil Society, and SARS,” presented jointly with Elspeth Thomson at the EAI Workshop on “SARS in Greater China: Crises and Responses” in Singapore, organized by East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore, 7 November 2003.
“Poor and Old: Xinyi as a Qiaoxiang in the Reform Period,” presented at the International Workshop “Asian Diasporas: Re-visiting the Chinese and South Asian Experiences” in Singapore, organized by Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore & Chinese Heritage Centre, 5-7 April 2004.
“Detraditionalized and Renewed Qiaoxiang Areas: Case Studies of Panyu and Wenzhou in the Reform Period since 1978,” presented at the 5th Conference of the International Society of the Study of Chinese Overseas “New Chinese Migrants – Globalization of Chinese Overseas Migration,” in Elsinore, Denmark, organized by the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies and the Department of Asian Studies, University of Copenhagen, 10-14 May 2004.
“From Old Country to New Nation: A Historical Review of Malaysian Chinese Writers in the 20th Century,” presented at the “Overcoming Passions: Race, Religion and the Coming Community in Malaysian Literature,” in Singapore, organized by the Asian Research Institute, National University of Singapore, 11-12 October 2004.
“Branding a New Guangdong: Chinese Diaspora as a Force of Urbanism and Modernism,” presented at the Centennial Conference on “Asian Horizons: Cities, States, and Societies,” in Singapore, organized by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and Asian Research Institute, National University of Singapore, 1-3 August 2005.
“Lisan zhong de ningju: Panyu huiguan gongneng de fahui yu juxian” 离散中的凝聚：番禺会馆功能的发挥与局限 (Cohesion within the Dispersion: The Functionality of Panyu Associations), presented at the “Maritime Asia and the Chinese Overseas, 1405-2005,” The Third International Conference of Institutes & Libraries for Chinese Overseas Studies, in Singapore, organized by Inter-Agency Committee on the Chinese Overseas Databank & Research, Singapore, and Ohio University Libraries, Athens, in association with International Zheng He Society, Singapore, 18-20 August 2005.
“Divided or United: Responses of Chinese Diaspora towards Cross-Straits Relations,” presented at the Conference on “China-Taiwan (Cross-Straits) Relations: Politics, Economics and ASEAN Perspectives,” in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, organized by the Institute of China Studies, University of Malaya, 17-18 November 2005.
“Xiang yongheng kaowen: Nanyang Daxue de wenhua fuhao” 向永恒拷问：南洋大学的文化符号 (Probing the Question of Eternity: The Cultural Iconology of Nanyang University), presented at the Seventh Annual Conference of the Cultural Studies Association (Taiwan) on “Zhongsheng zhongshen” 众生众身 (Multitude Lives/Bodies), in Jhongli, Taiwan, organized by the Cultural Studies Association (Taiwan), National Central University (Jhongli) and Department of English, National Central University (Jhongli), 7-8 January.
“Huangui xingshi: Nanyang Daxue de gaizhi yu gaige” 换轨行驶：南洋大学的改制与改革 (Taking Another Track: The Changes and Transformation of Nanyang University), presented at Nantah History Workship on “Zuqun, jiaoyu, guojia: 1953 zhi 1980 nian de Nanyang Daxue” 族群、教育、国家：1953至1980年的南洋大学 (Ethnicity, Education, and Country: Nanyang University, 1953-1980), in Singapore organized by the Centre for Chinese Language & Culture, Nanyang Technological University, 17 June 2006.
“Naru guojia xitong: Nanyang Daxue de zuihou wu nian” 纳入国家系统：南洋大学的最后五年 (Absorbed into the National System: The Last Five Years of Nanyang University”, presented at Nantah History Workship on “Zuqun, jiaoyu, guojia: 1953 zhi 1980 nian de Nanyang Daxue” 族群、教育、国家：1953至1980年的南洋大学 (Ethnicity, Education, and Country: Nanyang University, 1953-1980), in Singapore organized by the Centre for Chinese Language & Culture, Nanyang Technological University, 17 June 2006.
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