Brief Introduction Top

PhD (London School of Economics and Political Science) 2001

Teaching Areas Top

• SC4215A Perspectives on State and Society
• SC3202 From Moderinzation to Globalization
• SSA1201 Singapore Society

Current Research Top

Sociology of Economic Development

• Social Impact of Economic Globalization  
• Industrialization and Post-industrialization in Singapore

Singapore Society

• Religiosity in Singapore
• Singapore's Multiracialism
• Singapore Eurasians

Publications Top

BOOKS/MONOGRAPHS AUTHORED

• (2003) State Collaboration and Development Strategies in China. London: RoutledgeCurzon (click to see book information)
   
  

ARTICLES IN JOURNAL

• (2008) 'Whither the Developmental State? Explaining Singapore's Continued Developmentalism,' Third World Quarterly, 29 (6): 1189-1203
   
  
• (2007) 'Transnational state entrepreneurship? Assessing Singapore's Suzhou Industrial Park project (1994-2004)'  Asia Pacific Viewpoint 48 (3), 287–298. (click to see abstract)
   
  
• (2007) 'Attitudes towards Entrepreneurship in Singapore: The Role of the State in Cultural Transition,' Asian Journal of Social Science, Volume 35 (3): 321-339 (click to see abstract)
   
  
• (2006) 'Biotechnology Foreign Direct Investment in Singapore,' Transnational Corporations Journal (UNCTAD), Vol. 15 (2), pp. 99-124. (click HERE to view pdf file of entire journal, approx 600kb)
   
  
• (2006) 'Singapore's Family Values: Do They Explain Low Fertility?' Asia Pacific Population Journal, 21 (1): 65-84.
   
  
• (2005) "Singapore's Regionalization Strategy," Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy. Vol. 10 (3), pp.380-96.
   
  
• (2005) 'Religiosity and Economic Development in Singapore,' Journal of Contemporary Religion, Vol. 20 (2): 161-178. (Click here to see 1st page - pdf file)
   
  
• - with Tong, Chee Kiong (2005) 'Power and Developmental Regimes in Singapore, China and Malaysia,' Global Economic Review, Vol. 34 (1): 129-144. (Click here to see 1st page)
   
  
• (2004) ‘The Suzhou Industrial Park Experiment,’ Journal of Contemporary China. Vol. 13 (38), 173-193. (Click here to see 1st page)
   
  

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

• (2008) 'Manufacturing Human Resources: The role of the social Investment State,' in Lian, K. F. and C. K. Tong (eds.) Social Policy in Post-Industrial Singapore, Leiden: Brill, pp. 121-144
   
  
• (2006) 'No Longer "Other": The Emergence of the Eurasian Community in Singapore,' in Lian, K. F. (ed.) Race, Ethnicity and The State in Malaysia and Singapore. Leiden: Brill, pps.5-32.
  
   
  

• (2002) ‘The Transformation of Suzhou: The Case of the Collaboration between the China and Singapore Government and Transnational Corporations (1992-1999),’ in John R. Logan (ed.) Globalization, Market Reform, and the New Chinese City.  London: Blackwell Publishers, 121-134.