B.A. (Sing.); B.A. (Hons) (NUS); Ph.D. (ANU)
Tel: (65) 6516 6054
Office: AS1 05 - 14
Given my love for teaching and archival
research, I have not regretted for a moment about
joining the academia. This is especially so when
I am privileged to be able to work within a department
which has an excellent team of friendly and committed
colleagues. Providing good intellectual and emotional
mentorship to a diverse range of students is one
of my priorities. The other is to be able to help
students of Singapore, and perhaps the larger public,
to understand the complex developments which are
now taking place within China, particularly by putting
events and issues in their broader historical context.
For the present academic year, I will be involved
in modules on "China's Imperial Past: History
and Culture" and "Modern and Contemporary
China: Search for Wealth, Power and Democracy".
You are most welcome to drop by my office to seek
advice or just for a chat, certainly a more personalized
way to get to know each other, rather than just
clicking the mouse and striking the keyboard.
TEACHING AREAS:
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China's Imperial Past: History
and Culture |
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Modern
and Contemporary China: Search for Wealth,
Power and Democracy |
CURRENT RESEARCH:
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Governing
China: Local Self-Government in Wartime Chongqing,
1937-1945 |
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State
and Student Politics in Modern China, 1920s
-1990s |
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Chinese
Entrepreneurial and Intellectual Elite in
Postwar Singapore |
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
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"The
Kuomintang Peace Mission on the Eve of the
Communist Takeover," in Power and Identity
in the Chinese World Order, eds. K.L. So,
John Fitzgerald, Huang Jianli, James Chin
(Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, Mar
2003), pp. 142-185. |
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"The
Scripting of Singapore's National Heroes:
Toying with Pandora's Box," (co-authored)
in At the Interstices and On the Margins:
New Terrains in Southeast Asian History, eds.
Abu Talib Ahmad and Tan Liok Ee (Athens: Ohio
University Press, 2003), pp. 219-246. |
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"The
'Chinese-educated' Political Vanguard: Ong
Pang Boon, Lee Khoon Choy and Jek Yeun Thong,"
(co-authored) in Lee's Lieutenants: Singapore's
Old Guard, eds. Lam Peng Er and Kevin Tan
(Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1999), pp. 132-168.
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The
Politics of Depoliticization in Republican
China: Guomindang Policy Towards Student Political
Activism, 1927-1949 (Berne: Peter Lang AG,
1996), 242 pp. |
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"The
Founding of the People's Republic of China
and the Economic Concerns of Singapore Chinese
Entrepreneurs,' in Southeast Asian Chinese
and China: The Politico-Economic Dimension,
ed. Leo Suryadinata (Singapore: Times Academic
Press, 1995), pp. 161-192. |
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"The
Formation of the Guomindang Youth Corps: An
Analysis of Its Original Objectives,"
East Asian History, 5 (Jun 1993): 133-148.
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"...Providing good intellectual and emotional
mentorship to a diverse range of students
is one of my priorities. The other is to be
able to help students of Singapore, and perhaps
the larger public, to understand the complex
developments which are now taking place within
China..."
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