Pronetos

Current Research

Party Policies on Student Politics in China, 1920s-1940s 民国时期中国政党对学生运动的政策
Local Self-Government in Wartime Chongqing, 1937-1945 战时重庆的地方自治
Postwar Singapore Chinese Community 战后新加坡华族社群
Sino-Southeast Asia Interactions 中国、东南亚之互动
Chinese Overseas Diaspora Studies 海外华侨华人史

Subject Expertise

History of Republican China 中华人民共和国史
History of Chinese Communities in Post-War Singapore and Southeast Asia 战后新加坡华族社群

Courses Taught

China's Imperial Past: History and Culture 中国古代史
Struggle for Modern China: 1800-1949 近现代中国史
People's Republic of China: 1949-1989 中华人民共和国史
Approaches to Chinese History: Republican China 中华民国史史学论及研究方法
China and Southeast Asia Interactions 中国与东南亚的互动
Asia and the Modern World 亚洲与现代世界
Rise of Asia-Pacific 亚太区域的崛起

Publications

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS 主要出版作品:

Books/Edited Volumes 专著、主编

The Scripting of a National History: Singapore and its Pasts 国家历史的编写：新加坡及其往事 (Co-authored) (Singapore: NUS Press, in conjunction with Hong Kong University Press, 2008), 300 pp.

Power and Identity in the Chinese World Order 华人世界次序的权力与认同, (Co-edited) (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2003), 460 pp.

Haiwai huaren yanjiu de dashiye yu xinfangxiang 海外华人研究的大视野与新方向 [Macro Perspectives and New Directions in the Studies of Chinese Overseas], (Co-edited) (River Edge, New Jersey: Global Publishing, 2002), 436 pp.

The Politics of Depoliticization in Republican China: Guomindang Policy Towards Student Political Activism, 1927-1949 民国时期去政治化的政治：国民党对学生运动的政策，1927-1949 (Bern: Peter Lang AG, 1996) (Second edition, 1999), 242 pp.

Journal Articles 学报论文
“Conceptualizing Chinese Migration and Chinese Overseas: The Contribution of Wang Gungwu 海外华人与移民的概念化：王赓武的贡献,” Journal of Chinese Overseas 海外华人学报, 6, 1 (May 2010): 1-21.

“Portable Histories in Mobile City Singapore: The (Lack)lustre of Admiral Zheng He 流动城新加坡的便携式历史: (缺乏)光泽的郑和,” (co-authored) South East Asia Research 东南亚研究, 17, 2 (Jul 2009): 287-309.

“Shifting Culture and Identity: Three Portraits of Singapore Entrepreneur Lee Kong Chian (1893-1967) 文化与身份的转移：新加坡企业家李光前形象的三种建构,” Journal of Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 马来西亚皇家亚洲学会学报, 82, 1 (Jun 2009): 71-100. [Chinese language version in International Journal of Diasporic Chinese Studies 华人研究国际学报, 1, 2 (Dec 2009): 49-73.]

“In Search of Student Politics of the Past 追寻过往的学生运动,” in Tangent 圆切线, 6.2 (Aug 2007): 19-23 (Chinese), 24-29 (English) [Special Issue on “The Makers and Keepers of Singapore History 特辑：新加坡历史的创造者与守护人”].

“Chinese Diasporic Culture and National Identity: The Taming of the Tiger Balm Gardens in Singapore 中国散居文化与国民认同：新加坡虎豹别墅的驯服,” (co-authored) Modern Asian Studies 现代亚洲研究, 41, 1 (Jan 2007): 41-76.

“Positioning the Student Political Activism of Singapore: Articulation, Contestation and Omission 新加坡学生运动的定位：表达、争执、省略,” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 亚洲文化研究, 7.3 (Sep 2006): 403-430.

“Entanglement of Business and Politics in the Chinese Diaspora: Interrogating the Wartime Patriotism of Aw Boon Haw 华人散居者商务与政治的纠缠：战时胡文虎的爱国主义之质问,” Journal of Chinese Overseas 海外华人学报, 2.1 (May 2006): 79-110.

"History and the Imaginaries of 'Big Singapore': Positioning the Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall 历史与‘大新加坡’的想象：孙中山南洋纪念馆的定位," (Co-authored) Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 东南亚研究学报, 35.1 (Feb 2004): 65-89.

"Politics of Depoliticization: Policy on the Wartime Expansion of the Guomindang Youth Corps into Schools 去政治化的政治：有关战时国民党三民主义青年团进军学校的政策," Journal of Oriental Studies 东方研究, 34.2 (1996): 210-240.

"The Formation of the Guomindang Youth Corps: An Analysis of Its Original Objectives 中国国民党三民主义青年团的建构：关于其原先目的的分析," East Asian History 东亚历史, 5 (Jun 1993): 133-148.

Book Chapters 专书论文

“Dilemma and Anguish of the Chinese-Educated 华文教育者的困境与痛苦,” in Impressions of the Goh Chok Tong Years in Singapore 展示吴作栋的执政时期, edited by Bridget Welsh, James Chin, Arun Mahizhnan and Tan Tarn How (Singapore: NUS Press, 2009), pp. 336-349.

“The Young Pathfinders: Portrayal of Student Political Activism 年轻的探路者：学生运动之叙述,” in Paths Not Taken: Political Pluralism in Post-War Singapore 未被选择的途径：战后新加坡的多元政治, edited by Michael Barr and Carl Trocki (Singapore: NUS Press, 2008), pp. 188-205.

“Remembering World War II: Legacies of the War Fought in China 第二次世界大战的回忆：中国战争的遗产,” in Legacies of World War II in South and East Asia 第二次世界大战在南与东亚的遗产, edited by David Koh Wee Hock (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2007), pp. 117-137.

“Nanyang University and the Language Divide in Singapore: Controversy over the 1965 Wang Gungwu Report 南洋大学与新加坡的语文分化：1965年王赓武报告书的争议,” in Nantah tuxiang: Lishi heliuzhong de shengshi 南大图像：历史河流中的省视 (Imagery of Nanyang University: Reflections on the River of History), edited by Lee Guan Kin (Singapore: Global Publishing/NTU Centre for Chinese Langauge and Culture, 2007), pp. 165-220.

“Writings on Sun Yat-sen, Tongmenghui and the 1911 Revolution: Surveying the Field and Locating Southeast Asia 有关孙中山、同盟会及东南亚华人参与辛亥革命的研究概况,” in Tongmenghui, Sun Yat Sen and the Chinese in Southeast Asia: A Revisit 再读同盟会、孙中山与东南亚华人, edited by Leo Suryadinata (Singapore: Chinese Heritage Centre, 2006), pp. 61-107.

"Zhili Zhongguo: Chongqing shi kangzhan shiqi de difang zhengfu renyuan 治理中国：重庆市抗战时期的地方政府人员 (Governing China: Local Government Personnel in Wartime Chongqing)," in Jindai Zhongguo yu shijie 近代中国与世界(Modern China and the World), vol. 1, edited by Zhongguo shehui kexueyuan jindaishi yanjiusuo 中国社会科学院近代史研究所编 (Beijing 北京: Social Sciences Academic Press 社会科学学术出版社, 2005), pp. 321-339.

"The Kuomintang Peace Mission on the Eve of the Communist Takeover 共产党夺权之前的国民党和平使团," in Power and Identity in the Chinese World Order 华人世界次序的权力与认同, edited by K.L. So, John Fitzgerald, Huang Jianli, James Chin (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2003), pp. 91-119.

"The Scripting of Singapore's National Heroes: Toying with Pandora's Box 新加坡民族英雄的编剧：潘多拉盒子之游戏," (Co-authored) in New Terrains in Southeast Asian History 东南亚历史的新领域, edited by Abu Talib Ahmad and Tan Liok Ee (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2003), pp. 219-246.

"The 'Chinese-educated' Political Vanguard: Ong Pang Boon, Lee Khoon Choy and Jek Yeun Thong 华校生圈内的政治先驱者：王邦文、李炯才、日润堂," (Co-authored) in Lee's Lieutenants: Singapore's Old Guard 李光耀的得力助手：新加坡的第一代领袖, edited by Lam Peng Er and Kevin Tan (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1999), pp. 132-168.

"The Head of State in Singapore: An Historical Perspective 新加坡的国家首领：一个历史的视角," in Managing Political Change in Singapore: The Elected Presidency 处理新加坡的政治变化：总统的选举, edited by Kevin Tan and Lam Peng Er (London: Routledge, 1997), pp. 9-51.

"The Founding of the People's Republic of China and the Economic Concerns of Singapore Chinese Entrepreneurs 中华人民共和国的建立与新加坡华人企业家的经济视野," in Southeast Asian Chinese and China: The Politico-Economic Dimension 东南亚华人与中国：政治经济的视角, edited by Leo Suryadinata (Singapore: Times Academic Press, 1995), pp. 161-192.

CONFERENCE AND SEMINAR PAPERS/PRESENTATIONS 研讨会发表的文章、演说:
“Riding the Waves of the Global and Local: Configuring the Zheng He Heritage in the City State of Singapore 驱驾环球与本土化的浪潮：构建新加坡的郑和历史遗产,” Paper delivered at Malaysia-Singapore Forum 2009, 马、新论坛2009, 7-8 Dec 2009, Malayan University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

“Conceptualizing Chinese Migration: Wang Gungwu and his Struggle with Terminology 把华人移民理论化: 王赓武的术语挣扎,” Paper delivered at International Conference In Honour of Wang Gungwu's Scholarship: Bridging China Studies and International Relations Theory 盛庆王赓武教授的学术成就国际研讨会: 桥接中国研究与国际关系理论, 25-27 Jun 2009, NUS East Asian Institute, Singapore.

“History Rewriting: Tiger Balm 'Merchant King' Aw Boon Haw and His Flirtations with Japanese Imperialism 重写历史: 万金油'商王'胡文虎的调情与日本帝国主义,” Powerpoint presentation at Workshop on History Research and Teaching 历史研究与教学研讨会, 9 Jun 2009, King's College, University of London, UK.

“Lee Kong Chian as a Nanyang Entrepreneur and His Bearing on the Sino-Southeast Asian Cultural Landscape 南洋商人李光前与他的中国-东南亚文化视野,” Paper delivered at Workshop on Circuits of Cultural Entrepreneurship in China and Southeast Asia 中国与东南亚的文化企业圈子, 20-21 Mar 2009, Columbia University, New York, USA.

“Representations in the Chinese Diaspora: Imagery of Lee Kong Chian 华人散居者中的多重描绘: 李光前的意象,” Paper delivered at 20th Conference of International Association of Historians on Asia 第20届亚洲历史学者学会国际研讨会, 14-17 Nov 2008, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India; Second delivery as “Cultural Reproduction and Representation of Lee Kong Chian as a Nanyang Capitalist and Philanthropist 文化复制与描绘: 李光前为南洋资本主义家及慈善家,” at International Conference on The Legacy of Tan Kah Kee and Lee Kong Chian 纪念陈嘉庚与李光前国际研讨会, 28-29 Nov 2008, National Library Board, Singapore.

“In Search of Student Politics of the Past 追寻过往的学生运动,” Paper delivered at Symposium on the Makers and Keepers of Singapore History 新加坡历史的创造者与守护人研讨会, 10 Nov 2008, NUS Asia Research Institute, Singapore.

“Framing the Singapore Chinese Intellectuals: Journey of a Nantah Scholar 拟定新加坡华社知识分子：一位南大学者的旅程,” Paper delivered at International Conference on Southeast Asia and China: Connecting, Distancing and Positioning 东南亚与中国：连接、距离和定位国际研讨会, 1 Dec 2007, Singapore Society of Asian Studies, Singapore.

“Chinese Southeast Asians and Cold War Ideologies 东南亚华人与冷战意识形态,” Powerpoint presentation at Second Planning Roundtable on Cold War in Asia (1945-1990) 亚洲冷战 (1945-1990)第二次规划圆桌会议, 28 Jun 2007, NUS Asia Research Institute, Singapore.

“Aspiration and Reality: Local Governance in the Wartime Capital 渴望与现实：战时首都的地方治理,” Paper delivered at the International Conference on Destination Chongqing, 1937-45: The Wartime Capital City of Republican China 目的地重庆,1937-45：中华民国的抗战首府, 26-27 Jun 2007, National University of Singapore, Singapore.

“Predicaments in Capturing and Framing the Past: Student Politics of the Yesteryear 捕捉和成帧过去的困境：学生政治的岁月,” Powerpoint presentation at workshop on Collective Memory: Capturing the Past and Preserving it for the Future 集体记忆：捕捉过去和维护它的未来研讨会, 6 Sep 2006, National Archives of Singapore, Singapore.

“An Ordinary Chapter in Higher Education in Singapore?: S.L. Prescott-Gwee Ah Leng-Wang Gungwu Reports on the Nanyang University 新加坡高等教育平凡的一章？关于南洋大学的三份检讨报告书.” Powerpoint presentation at the Workshop on Ethnicity, Education and Nation: History of the Nanyang University, 1953 -1980 族群、教育与国家：南洋大学的历史研讨会, 5 Aug 2006, Centre for Chinese Language and Culture, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

“Dynamics at the Periphery of the Chinese Nation: Historiography on Overseas Chinese in the 1911 Revolution 中国国家边沿的动力： 辛亥革命与海外华侨的历史论述.” Paper delivered at the Historical Society for Twentieth Century China Biennual Conference on Chinese Nation-Chinese State 二十世纪中国历史学会两年一届研讨会, 27 Jun 2006, National University of Singapore, Singapore; Second delivery at the Fifth International Symposium on the History of Republican China 第五届中华民国历史国际研讨会, 29 Jul 2006, Research Centre on Republican China, Nanjing University, China.

“Writings on Sun Yat-Sen, Tongmenghui and the 1911 Revolution: Surveying the Field and Locating Southeast Asia 有关孙中山、同盟会及东南亚华人参与辛亥革命的研究概况.” Paper delivered at the International Seminar on Tongmenghui, Sun Yat-Sen and the Chinese in Southeast Asia: A Revisit 再读同盟会、孙中山与东南亚的华人国际研讨会, 12 Jun 2006, Chinese Heritage Centre and Sun Yat-Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall, Singapore.

“History and Politics: Reflections on the War Fought in China 历史与政治：中日战争的反省.” Paper delivered at the Conference on World War II: Transient and Enduring Legacies for East and Southeast Asia 60 Years On 六十年来第二次世界大战留给东亚与东南亚的遗产研讨会, 4 Aug 2005, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore.

"Paths of Contestation and Neglect: Positioning Postwar Student Political Activism in Singapore 争论与忽略的路径：战后新加坡学生运动的定位." Paper delivered at the Symposium on Paths Not Taken: Political Pluralism in Postwar Singapore 没有行走的道路： 战后新加坡的多元政治, 14-15 Jul 2005, NUS Asia Research Institute, Singapore.
"Nanyang University and the Great Language Divide: Reflections on the 1965 Wang Gungwu Report 南洋大学和语言社群的分化： 1965年王賡武报告书的反思." Paper delivered at the International Conference on National Boundaries and Cultural Configurations 国家疆界与文化图象国际研讨会, 23-25 Jun 2004, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

“Singapore as an International Hub for Southeast Asian Studies 新加坡作为东南亚学的国际中心.” Powerpoint presentation at the Workshop on International Cooperation on Educating Overseas Chinese and Southeast Asia 海外华人教育合作与东南亚国际研讨会, 9 Jun 2004, Ming Chuan University, Taipei, Taiwan.

"Entanglement of Business and Politics in the Chinese Diaspora: Interrogating the Wartime Patriotism of Aw Boon Haw 华人散居者商务与政治的纠缠：战时胡文虎的爱国主义之质问." Paper delivered at the International Workshop on Asian Diaspora: Revisiting the Chinese and South Asian Experiences 亚洲散居者：华人与南亚人经验的再读国际研讨会, 5-7 Apr 2004, NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Singapore.

"Reflections on Chinese Diaspora Culture: The Tiger Balm Gardens in Singapore and Hong Kong 反思中国散居者文化： 新加坡与香港的虎豹别墅." Powerpoint presentation at the HKU-NUS Joint Workshop on Hong Kong and Singapore in History: A Comparative Study 香港和新加坡历史：一个比较研究, 4-5 Dec 2003, Department of History, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

“Studying Nationalist China: Library and Archival Experiences of a Singapore-Based Researcher 探讨国民党统治时期的中华民国：一个新加坡学者的图书馆与档案馆经验.” Oral presentation at Seminar on Overseas Chinese in Singapore: Historical Links with China via Archival Sources 海外华人与新加坡历史：通过历史挡案的研究, 7 May 2002, National Archives of Singapore and State Archives Administration of China, Singapore.

"Dissonant Narratives of the Past: Positioning the Sun Yat Sen Villa in Singapore 不和谐的叙述：新加坡晚晴园的定位." Paper delivered at the International Conference on the Ethnic Chinese in Singapore and Malaysia: A Dialogue between Tradition and Modernity 新马华人：传统与现代的对话, 30 Jun-1 Jul 2001, Singapore Society of Asian Studies, Singapore.

"Governing China: Local Government Personnel in Wartime Chongqing, 1937-1945 治理中国：战时重庆的地方政府人员." Paper delivered at the Second International Symposium on Modern China and the World 第二届近现代中国与世界国际研讨会, 6-10 Sep 2000, Institute of Modern History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China.

"Mindscape of the Singapore Chinese Business Community: The Founding of the PRC and Beyond, 1949-50 新加坡华商社群的心态：中华人民共和国的建立及其他影响因素." Oral presentation at Workshop on China's Relations with the Asia-Pacific Region 中国与亚太地区的关系, 12 Dec 1998, Nagoya, Japan.

"The Head of State in Singapore: An Historical Perspective 新加坡国家元首：一个历史视角." Paper delivered at Managing Political Change: The Elected Presidency of Singapore 处理政治变化： 新加坡的总统选举, 28 May 1994, NUS Centre for Advanced Studies, Singapore.

"The Founding of the PRC and the Economic Concerns of the Singapore Chinese Businessmen 中华人民共和国的建立与新加坡华人企业家的经济视野." Paper delivered at the International Conference on Southeast Asian Chinese: Culture, Economy and Society 东南亚华人：文化、经济和社会国际研讨会, 22 Jan 1994, Singapore Society of Asian Studies, Singapore.

"An April Fool's Joke on the Eve of the Chinese Communist Takeover?: The Guomindang Peace Mission of April 1-20, 1949 中国共产党夺权前夕的愚人节玩笑？ 1949年4月1-20日的国民党和平使团." Oral presentation at Stanford University Center for Asian Studies Seminar 斯坦福大学亚洲研究中心座谈会, 27 May 1993, Stanford, California, United States.

"The Guomindang Party Machinery and Youth Corps in Schools, 1938-1945: Outlets for Student Political Activism? 中国国民党政党机制与学校的三民主义青年团是否参与学生运动的管道?" Paper delivered at the Seminar of the Research School of Pacific Studies 太平洋研究院座谈会, 31 Jul 1984, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.

"The Guomindang Youth Corps: Policy on the Recruitment of Students 中国国民党三民主义青年团：招集学生的政策, 1938-1940." Paper delivered at the 5th National Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia 第五次澳大利亚亚洲研究学会国家研讨会, 17 May 1984, Asian Studies Association of Australia, Adelaide, Australia.

BOOK REVIEWS 书评:

Review of Michael Murdock, Disarming the Allies of Imperialism: The State, Agitation, and Manipulation during China's Nationalist Revolution, 1922-1929 解除帝国盟友的武装: 中华民族革命时期中的国家、搅拌、与操纵, 1922-1929 (Ithaca, NY: East Asian Program, Cornell University, 2006), 348pp., in Asian Studies Review 亚洲研究评论 33 (Jun 2009): 230-231.

Review of Saw Swee Hock and John Wong, eds., Southeast Asian Studies in China 中国的东南亚研究 (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies and East Asian Institute, 2007), 204pp., in Bijdragen tot de Taal-Land-en Volkenkunde (BKI) [Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia and Oceania 东南亚与大洋洲的人文社会科学学报] 164, 2/3 (2008): 318-319.

Review of Gregor Benton and Liu Hong, eds., Diasporic Chinese Ventures: The Life and Work of Wang Gungwu 散居华人的企业: 王赓武的生活与工作 (London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004), 246pp., in Journal of Chinese Overseas 海外华人学报, 1.1 (May 2005): 134-136.

Review of Lim How Seng, Xinjiapo huashe yu huashang 新加坡华社与华商 [Singapore Chinese Community and Entrepreneurs] (Singapore: Singapore Society of Asian Studies, 1995), 272 pp., in Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 东南亚研究学报, 28.2 (1997): 454-455.

Review of David S.G. Goodman and Gerald Segal, eds., China Deconstructs: Politics, Trade and Regionalism 解构中国: 政治、贸易和区域主义 (London: Routledge, 1994), 378 pp., in Asian Journal of Political Science 亚洲政治学学报, 4.1 (Jun 1996): 155-157.

Review of Arthur Waldron, From War to Nationalism: China's Turning Point, 1924-1925 从战争到民族主义：中国的转折点，1924-1925 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 366 pp., in Pointer 指点，军事学报, 22.3 (Jul-Sep 1996): 90-93.

Review of Leung Yuen Sang, Xuanni fuhai dao Nanzhou: Rujia sixiang yu zaoqi Xinjiapo huaren shehui shiliao huibian 宣尼浮海到南洲：儒家思想与早期新加坡华人社会史料汇编 [Confucianism and the Singapore Chinese Community: Historical Documents] (Hong Kong: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1995), 261 pp., in Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 东南亚研究学报, 26.2 (1995): 424-426.

Review of Lincoln Li, Student Nationalism in China, 1924-1949 中国学生的民族主义，1924-1949 (Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1994), 209 pp., in Journal of Oriental Studies 东方研究学报, 33.2 (1995): 303-305.

Review of C.F. Yong and R.B. McKenna, The Kuomintang Movement in British Malaya, 1912-1949 英属马来亚的国民党运动，1912-1949 (Singapore: Singapore University Press, 1990), 289 pp., in Journal of Southeast Asian Studies东南亚研究学报，23.1 (Mar 1992): 195-198.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS 其他出版作品:

“Nationalist Government 中华民国政府, 1927-1949,” in Encyclopaedia of Modern China 近现代中国史百科全书, edited by David Pong (Detroit, MI: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2009), Vol. 3, pp. 13-18.

“Sun Yat-sen 孙中山” and “Wang Gungwu 王赓武,” in Singapore: The Encyclopaedia 新加坡的百科全书 (Singapore: Editions Didier Millet and National Heritage Board, 2006), pp. 525-526 and 582.

"Many Portraits of a Dragon Lady: Historiographical Overview on Empress Dowager Cixi 太后的多面描述：有关慈禧的历史写作的概论," in Forbidden City: Portrait of an Empress 紫禁城：一个皇太后的描述 (Singapore: The Esplanade, Oct 2002), pp. 20-22, (Reprint in Sep 2003, pp. 14-17 and Sep 2006).

"Reflections on the Fabric of Chinese Society and Governance: Family, Imperial System and Mandate of Heaven 中国社会构造和统治的反思：家庭、君国系统和天命," NUS History Society History E-Journal 2002 新加坡国立大学历史学会电子学报 (Aug 2002): 13 pp.

"Meeting the Challenges of History Teaching in the New Millennium 迎接新千禧年历史教学的挑战," The History Teacher 历史老师, 24 (Oct 2001): 6-7.

"Governing China: Local Government Personnel in Wartime Chongqing, 1937-1945 治理中国：战时重庆的地方政府人员, 1937-1945," East Asian Institute, Working Paper 东亚研究所研究工作报告书, No. 78, Aug 2001, 20 pp.

"Sources and the Changing Trends in History Writing 历史教学的资源和趋势," The History Teacher 历史老师, 23 (Oct 2000): 2-3.

DISCUSSANT PAPERS 评论报告:

On Leander Seah, “Remapping the Nanyang: Reflections on the South Seas Society, Chinese Intellectuals in Singapore and the Formation of a Local Identity, 1940-1971 重测南洋：反思南洋学会、新加坡华人知识分子和本土认同的形成， 1940-1971” for NUS Asia Research Institute workshop on “Paths Not Taken: Political Pluralism in Postwar Singapore 没有行走的道路： 战后新加坡的多元政治,” 4pp., 15 Jul 2005.

On Deborah Solomon, "Structures of Resistance: Student Activist Networks and Police Repression in the Kwangju Student Protests 抵抗的结构：光州学生请愿中的学生激进分子网络和警察之镇压," Naomi Chi, "Resistance against Authoritarian Rule: Catholic Democratization Movement in 1970’s South Korea 对独裁统治的抵抗：1970年代南韩的天主教民主运动," and Sarmistha Pattanaik, "Resistance and Popular Consciousness: The Environmental Movement of Chilika 抵抗和大众意识：奇利卡的环境运动," for NUS Asia Research Institute Graduate Workshop on "States of Transgression: Strategies of Domination, Accommodation and Resistance across Asia," 亚洲研究所研究生研讨会“违反：亚洲统治、融合与抵抗的策略”3pp., 26 May 2005.

On Eugene K.B. Tan, "Many Tongues and Many Tribes: The Role of Language in the Singapore State in Search of a Nation 多种语言和社群：新加坡国家建构中语言的作用," for Institute of Southeast Asian Studies workshop on "Language, Nation and Development in Southeast Asia," “语言、国家、东南亚的发展”座谈会 5 pp., 26 Nov 2003.

On Gao Xiang, "Reflections on Chinese Modernization: A Theoretical and Methodological Critique 中国现代化的反省：理论和方法的批评," (in Chinese) for NUS Chinese Studies Department international conference on "Ming-Qing Studies: Reflections on State of Field and Methodology," “明清研究：对研究状况和研究方法的反省” 3 pp., 28 Jul 2000.

On Guan Shufen, "China in World Affairs in the 1990s 中国在1990年代的世界," (in Chinese) for Singapore Institute of International Affairs conference on "ASEAN and the European Community in the 1990s 一九九零年代亚细安和欧洲社群," 6 pp., 20 May 1992。

Organizations

Invited Senior Research Fellow 特邀高级研究员, Centre for Chinese Language and Culture 中华语言文化中心,
Nanyang Technological University 南洋理工大学, Singapore 新加坡 (Jan 2009-present)
Singapore China Society 新加坡中国学会, Singapore 新加坡 (2009-present)
Singapore Society of Asian Studies 亚洲文化研究学会, Singapore 新加坡 (Member 成员 from 2001)
(Council member 理事会委员, 2004-2008)
South Seas Society 南洋研究学会, Singapore 新加坡 (2004-present)
Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 马来西亚皇家亚洲学会 (Jun 2009-present)
Society for Modern Chinese History 中国近代史学会, Taiwan 台湾 (1998-present)
Association of Asian Studies 亚洲研究学会, USA 美国 (1989-present)