Education:
2004 Ph.D. Harvard University
1997 MA National University of Singapore
1995 BA (Hons) National University of Singapore
Work Experiences:
2019- Professor, Department of Chinese Studies, NUS
2009-2018 Associate Professor Department of Chinese Studies, NUS
2004-2009 Assistant Professor Department of Chinese Studies, NUS
1999-2004 Senior Tutor Department of Chinese Studies, NUS
1997-1999 Teaching Assistant Department of Chinese Studies, NUS
1995 Journalist Lianhe Zaobao, Singapore Press Holdings
Awards:
2018-2019 Faculty Teaching Excellence Award
2016-2017 NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award
2016-2017 Faculty Teaching Excellence Award
2015-2016 Faculty Teaching Excellence Award
2011-2012 Faculty Teaching Excellence Award
2006-2007 Faculty Teaching Excellence Award
1999-2004 Overseas Graduate Scholarship, National University of Singapore
1995-1997 Research Scholarship, National University of Singapore
Administrative Appointments:
Jan 2022- Head, Department of Chinese Studies
July 2019-Dec 2021 Deputy Head, Department of Chinese Studies
July 2019-Oct 2021 Deputy Chair, Faculty Promotion & Tenure Committee II, FASS.
July 2019-Dec 2020 Director, Wan Boo Sow Research Centre for Chinese Studies, Department of Chinese Studies
Jan-June 2019 Member, Faculty Promotion and & Committee, FASS.
Jan-July 2017 Vice Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. International Relations and Special Duties.
July 2011-Dec 2016 Assistant Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Assisting Vice Dean of International Relations and Special Duties.
Jan 2010-June 2010 Deputy Head, Department of Chinese Studies
2009-2010 Member, Faculty Curriculum Review Committee, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
2008-2009 Assistant Head, Department of Chinese Studies
Courses Taught:
1) Chinese Tradition (in English)
2) History of Civil Examination in Later and Late Imperial China 科舉史
3) Daoxue Neo-Confucianism 宋明理學
4)Women in Chinese History, 中國女性史
5) Intellectual History of Modern China 中國近現代思想
6) Introduction to Chinese Studies 漢學導論
7) Chinese Local History 中國地方史
8) Chinese Media in Singapore: Theory and Practice新加坡的華文媒體:理論與實踐
9) Commerce and Culture in China's Past (in English)
10) Everyday Lives of Chinese Singaporeans (in English)
1) Sociocultural History of Shaanxi Province 陝西社會文化史
2) Military History of Song China (960-1279) 宋代軍事史
3) Archaism in Ming China (1368-1644) 明代復古思潮
4) Sociocultural History of Minnan (southern Fujian) 閩南社會文化
5) Transnational Lineage Ideas and Practices of the Hokkien Communities 福建社群的跨國宗族理念與實踐.
1) Intellectual History of Later and Late Imperial China 中國思想史:宋至清
2) Military History of Later Imperial China 宋元明軍事史
3) Local History 地方史
4) Transnationl Networks of the Hokkien Communities福建社群的跨國網絡
BOOKS/MONOGRAPHS AUTHORED
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
EDITORIAL WORK ON BOOKS
TRANSLATION WORK ON BOOKS
ARTICLES IN JOURNALS
SHORTER ARTICLES/COMMENTS IN JOURNAL/ REVIEW ARTICLES
ONLINE PUBLICATION
CONFERENCE PAPERS
"Li Mengyang's (1473-1529) Political Archaism and Perceptions of State-Society Relations in Ming China" paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, Honolulu
“The ‘Problematic’ South in Ming Politics, 1368-1464”, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Asian Studies,
THESES/DISSERTATIONS
NON-ACADEMIC WRITINGS
1) Ministry of Education, Academic Research Fund, Tier 1
Topic: Before Zhu Xi: Geopolitical Crisis and the Unfolding of Daoxue Neo-Confucianism in Song China, 1107-1163. Start date: March 2018.
2) Ministry of Education, Academic Research Fund, Tier 2
Topic: North China as Part of the Inner Asian System, 10th-15th Centuries (with Koh Khee Heong, Wang Jinping and Sng Tuan Hwee). Start date: June 2018.
3) Ministry of Education, Academic Research Fund, Tier 1
Topic: The Xuanwu Cult and Military and Religious Cultures in Late Imperial China (with Koh Khee Heong). Start date: Oct 2009. Completed.
4) Ministry of Education, Academic Research Fund, Tier 1 AND Conference/Seminar/Workshop Grant, Taiwan Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation
Topic: International Workshop on Qing Daoxue Neo-Confucianism (with Koh Khee Heong). Completed.
5) Ministry of Education, Academic Research Fund, Tier 1
Topic: North and South: Regional Disparaties and Learning of the Way in Qing China (with Koh Khee Heong). Completed.