B.A. (Hons.); Ph.D. (Harvard)
Tel: (65) 6516 7600
Office: AS1 05 - 36

An Honours graduate of this Department, I pursued my PhD studies at Harvard University. I returned to teach in this Department from 1993 to 1997 before becoming the Head of the Department of Japanese Studies from July 1997 to June 2003. I am happy to be back in this Department again. Beginning with a research interest in Japanese-Chinese relations, I have expanded my research focus to Japanese-Southeast Asian interactions. East Asian international history and Japanese history are my teaching areas. For pastimes, I enjoy movies, travelling and hiking. I also like to spend time playing with my infant god-son. A simple and happy life is what I hope for.

TEACHING AREAS:

-	Japan and the Asia-Pacific in Modern Times
-	Japanese History

CURRENT RESEARCH:

-	Japan-Singapore relations
-	Japan-Southeast Asia relations
-	Japan-China relations

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

-	“The Chinese and Japanese in Colonial Singapore, 1870s-1941” in Japan and Singapore (Singapore: Macmillan, forthcoming)
-	“Re-thinking Japanese-Chinese Cultural Relations in the 1930s” in Public Sphere, Private Lives in Modern Japan (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2005)
-	Japan's Cultural Policy Toward China, 1918-1931: A Comparative Perspective (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 1999)