Interests

• Business and financial history
• Chinese overseas
• Capitalism
• Transnationalism
• Global history
• Southeast Asia’s past and present

Education and Work Experience

• October 2023–present: MPhil/PhD in History, University of Warwick, UK
• January 2021–September 2023: Research Associate, Nanyang Centre for Public Administration, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• August–December 2019: Teaching Assistant, HH1003 Asia-Pacific in Global History: From 1800, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• 2018–2020: M.A. (Research) in Global and Interdisciplinary History, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• 2014–2018: B.A. (Highest Honours) in History and University Scholars Programme, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Publications

Edited Volume

• Good Governance in a Post COVID-19 World – Global Health and Economic Recovery (Brussels: International Institute of Administrative Sciences, August 2023). (Open Access, co-edited with Hong Liu and Celia Lee)

Refereed Journal Articles

• 'Industrialization and Chinese Big Business in Colonial Singapore, Malaya, and China: The Transnational Enterprises of Lim Peng Siang (1904-1941).' Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. Vol. 54, No. 1 (2023), 89-115. (Open Access, written with Keng We Koh)
• 'Semi-archives and Interim Archives: A History of the National Wages Council in Singapore.' Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 11, No. 3 (2022), 427-449. (Open Access, co-written with Kah Seng Loh)
• 'Emerging Business Transnationalism in Singapore and China: Governance, Networks, and Strategies.' Asia Pacific Business Review, Online First (2022). (Open Access, co-written with Hong Liu)

In Chinese

• ‘新加坡华商企业的商业跨国主义：族群网络与治理策略 [Chinese Business Transnationalism in Singapore: Ethnic Networks and Governing Strategies].' Southeast Asian Affairs, Vol. 4 (2023), 103-116. (co-written with Hong Liu)
• '新书发布会《长为异乡客？：当代华人新移民》 [Book Release: Forever Strangers? Contemporary Chinese Immigrants Around the World].” International Journal of Diasporic Chinese Studies (华人研究国际学报) Vol. 13, No. 1 (2021), 119-124.

• 'Continuing Education and Training in Post-COVID 19 Singapore.' In Good Governance in a Post COVID-19 World – Global Health and Economic Recovery (Brussels: International Institute of Administrative Sciences, 2023) (co-written with Celia Lee)
• 'Managing COVID-19: Singapore’s experience from a medical practitioner’s perspective.' In Good Governance in a Post COVID-19 World – Global Health and Economic Recovery (Brussels: International Institute of Administrative Sciences, 2023). (co-written with Dr Dale Fisher)
• 'Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry: An Institution in Transition.' In Kwa, Chong Guan and Kua, Bak Lim eds. A General History of the Chinese in Singapore (Singapore: World Scientific, 2019), 345-359.

• 'Theatres of Memory: Industrial Heritage of 20th Century Singapore'. Berita (Official Publication of Malaysia/Singapore/Brunei Studies Group Association for Asian Studies). Vol. 48, No. 1 (2022), 52-56.

• 'Beyond Ethnicity and Dialect: The Organization, Scope and Clientele of the Kwong Yik Bank in Singapore.” Berita, Vol. 48, No. 1 (2022), 17-30.

• 'Between culture and enterprise: The business history of Tan Yeok Seong.' HistorySpeaks (2022), 48-61.

• 'British, Dutch, Japanese or Chinese? The Sugar King Inheritance Dispute in Pre-war Singapore.' HIST:RE, Vol. 1 (2019), 65-69.

• 'Researching the Eu Yan Sang Collection.' National Museum of Singapore (2019). (co-written with Grace Teo)

• 'Singapore Infopedia: Marsiling Road.' National Library Board, Singapore (2016).

• In Chinese: '觉世牗民 独任其难：薛有礼与《叻报》 [See Ewe Lay, the Founder of Lat Pau].' Yuan, No. 5, Issue 123 (2016), 12-13.

Scholarships and Grants

Ongoing

• 2024-2026: SSRC Graduate Research Fellowship, Singapore
• 2023-2027: PhD Scholarship, ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore
• 2023-2026: Chancellor’s International Scholarship, University of Warwick, UK
• 2023-2024: Tan Ean Khiam Foundation Postgraduate Scholarship, Tan Kah Kee Foundation, Singapore

Past

• 2018-2020: Research Scholarship (Graduate), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• 2018: Conference Travel Grant, University of Tokyo, Japan
• 2015, 2017: President Research Scholarship, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• 2015-2018: Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Employees’ Union (SMEEU) Scholarship (Undergraduate), Singapore
• 2014-2018: Nanyang Scholarship (Undergraduate), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Awards

• 2023: Best Customer Service Award (Merit), Nanyang Centre for Public Administration, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

• 2022: Best Teamwork Award (Merit), Nanyang Centre for Public Administration, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

• 2018: Lee Kuan Yew Gold Medal
  (Awarded by Nanyang Technological University to the top graduate in each programme)

• 2015, 2017, 2018: Dean’s List Award, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  (Awarded annually by the college to undergraduates within the top 5% of their cohort)

Conference Organization and Presentations

Supported at the Nanyang Centre for Public Administration in Singapore

• 25-26 August 2023: Lien International Conference on Good Governance: Good Governance for the Common Good
  Attracted 300 in-person participants from over 20 countries and online viewership of 1.3 million globally
  See Report (Chinese)
• 25-26 November 2022: Lien Development Conference: The Dynamics of Governance in a Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous World
  Attracted 300 in-person participants from over 15 countries
• 22-23 November 2021: Lien International Conference on Good Governance: Good Governance in the Post COVID-19 World - Global Health and Economic Recovery
  Attracted 400 in-person and online participants
• 2-3 March 2021: International Conference on Transnational Knowledge Transfer and Dynamic Governance: Comparative Experiences and New Challenges

Conference Papers

• ‘Between the yinhao and modern bank: The Kwong Yik Bank and company law reform in the Straits Settlements.’ Annual Conference of the Association of Business Historians, Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, 29 June to 1 July 2023.
• ‘Emerging business transnationalism in Singapore and China: governance, networks, and strategies.’ 10^th Global Social Sciences Graduate Student Hybrid Conference, Hong Kong Baptist University, 19 May 2023.
• ‘Culture, Nationality and Conflict: An Analysis of Tan Kah Kee & Company’s Advertisements in Pre-War Singapore.’ Annual Conference of the Association of Business Historians, Sheffield Hallam University, 5 July to 6 July 2019.
• ‘Philanthropy, Products and Patriotism: The Advertisements of Lim Peng Siang and Tan Kah Kee in Late Colonial Singapore (1920–1941).’ Hong Kong University Spring History Symposium, 2 to 3 May 2019.
• ‘Chinese Shipping in Pre-war Southeast Asia and China: The case of the Ho Hong Steamship Company.’ Graduate Student Conference, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, 20 October 2018.
• ‘Modern Hokkien Banking in Prewar Singapore and Asia: The Vicissitudes of the Ho Hong Bank (1917–1932).’ Early Career Conference, University of Tokyo, 11 September 2018.
• ‘Concordia Et Copia: An Examination of Lim Peng Siang’s Business Career and his Modernization Project in the Straits Settlements and Southern China (1872–1944).’ Annual Conference of the Association of Business Historians, Open University, United Kingdom, 29 June to 30 June 2018.
• ‘From Riches to Rags? Exploring the Lim Peng Siang Business Story 1904 – 1944.’ Annual Conference of the Association of Business Historians, University of Glasgow, 29 June to 1 July 2017.

• ‘From Riches to Rags? Exploring the Lim Peng Siang Business Story 1904 – 1944.’ International Conference of Undergraduate Research, Nanyang Technological University, 28 September 2016.

Invited Talks and Public Engagement

• Discussant for Book Talk: 'Banking and Politics in the Age of Democratic Revolution' by Niccolò Valmori, Early Modern and Eighteenth-Century Centre, University of Warwick, 18 January 2024.
• Guest Lecture: 'Business, Industrialization, and Modernization in Colonial Singapore and Malaya: The Case of Lim Peng Siang's Transnational Enterprises (1900-1941)', HH1003 Asia-Pacific in Global History: From 1800, Nanyang Technological University, 15 March 2023.
• Sharing at Arkebe Oqubay, ‘Perspectives on Research Methodology for Social Sciences and Public Policy: Complexity, Experiences, and Insights.” Seminar for Research Students, School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 28 November 2022.
• ‘Good Governance in the Post COVID-19 World – Global Health and Economic Recovery’. Resilience Governance and Soft Book Launch, International Institute of Administrative Sciences Special Panel, Lien Development Conference, 26 November 2022.
• ‘A Brief History of Chinese Banks and the SCCCI (1903-1932).’ Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce & Industry Culture & Heritage Docent Training Programme, 21 November 2021.
• ‘Lim Peng Siang and Chinese Big Business in Singapore (1904-1941).’ Collecting & Research on the Chinese in Southeast Asia, National University of Singapore, 25 October 2021.
• Guest Lecture: 'Between traditional and modern: Business, Race, and Class in colonial Singaporee and Malaya', HH1003 Asia Pacific in Global History: From 1800, Nanyang Technological University, 13 September 2021.
• Panelist, ‘Post-Graduation: What Comes Next?’ Nanyang Technological University Research Society, 22 January 2020.

Service

• October 2020–present: Member, Research Committee, Singapore Federation of Chinese Clan Associations
• January 2024: Peer Reviewer, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
• March–April 2022: Peer Reviewer, Business History
• 2017: Student Ambassador, History Programme, Nanyang Technological University
• 2016–2017: Vice President, History Society, Nanyang Technological University