FASS Staff Profile

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR KWEE HUI KIAN
ASSOC PROFESSOR
DEPARTMENT of CHINESE STUDIES

Appointment:
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Office:
As 8, 05-41
Email:
h.k.kwee@nus.edu.sg
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Homepage:
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Brief Introduction

Education:

2005         Ph.D.          Leiden University

2001         MA             National University of Singapore

1997         BA (Hons)   National University of Singapore


Work Experience:

2017-present Associate Professor    Department of Chinese Studies, NUS

2012-2016    Associate Professor     Department of Historical Studies, Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies, University of Toronto

2007-2012    Assistant Professor      Department of Historical Studies, Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies, University of Toronto

2006-2007    Postdoctoral Fellow      Asia Research Institute, NUS

 

Awards:

2014                College of Humanities and Social Science, National Chiao-tung University, Hsin-chu, Taiwan. Visiting fellow.

2013                International Center for Studies of Chinese Civilization visiting fellowship, Fudan University. Visiting fellow.

2012                The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) joint research fellowship, Leiden, The Netherlands, April-June 2012. Research fellow.

2008                Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) and “Encountering a Common Past” (ENCOMPASS) program joint research fellowship, Leiden, The Netherlands.


Teaching Areas

China-Southeast Asia Interaction

Chinese Diaspora

Chinese in Southeast Asia

Trade Diasporas

Chinese Capitalism

Diasporic Entrepreneurship and Capitalisms

International Labour Migration

Chinese Contemporary Culture

Diasporic Histories and Cultures

Introduction to Southeast Asia

Introduction to Diaspora and Transnational Studies


Current Research

Living in Post-Suharto West Kalimantan


Research Interests

Southeast Asian History (especially Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore), Monsoon Asia (South China Sea, Indian Ocean), Colonialism and Imperialism (especially Dutch and British), Capitalism, Chinese Ethnicity, Migration, Religion, Transnationalism and Entrepreneurial Networks


Publications

OTHERS

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    SELECT PUBLICATIONS

    • Book/Monograph

    The Political Economy of Java’s Northeast Coast, c. 1740-1800: Elite Synergy. Leiden: Brill Publications, 2006.

     

    • Journal Articles

    “Nexus of Mobility: Chinese Economic Migration to West Borneo, c. 1740-1850,” Journal of Chinese Overseas 14, 2. 2018: 157-81.

    “Chinese Economic Dominance in Southeast Asia: A Longue Durée Perspective,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 55, 1. 2013: 5-34.

    “How Strangers Became Kings: Javanese-Dutch Relations in Java 1600-1800,” Indonesia and the Malay World 36. 2008: 293-307.

    “Pockets of Empire: Integrating the Studies on Social Organizations in Southeast China and Southeast Asia,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 27, 3. 2007: 616-32.

     

    • Book Chapters

    “Of Married Daughters and Caged Chickens: History and Significations of Being “Chinese” in Southeast Asia.” In Global East Asia. Editors: Frank Pieke. Berkeley: University of California Press, forthcoming.

    “The Expansion of the Chinese Inter-Insular and Hinterland Trade in Southeast Asia, c. 1400-1850.” In Environment, Trade and Society in Southeast Asia. Editors: David Henley and Henk Schulte Nordholt. Leiden: Brill, 2015, pp. 149-65.

    “The Rise of the Chinese Commercial Dominance in Early Modern Southeast Asia.” In Merchant Communities in Asia, 1600-1980. Editors: Yu-ju Lin and Madeleine Zelin. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2014, pp. 79-93.

    “Chinese in Southeast Asia.” In Routledge Handbook of Southeast Asian History. Editor: Norman G. Owen. London/New York: Routledge, 2013, pp. 289-99.

    “The End of the ‘Age of Commerce’?: Javanese Cotton Trade Industry from the Seventeenth to the Eighteenth Centuries.” In Chinese Circulations: Capital, Commodities and Networks in Southeast Asia. Editors: Eric Tagliacozzo and Chang Wen-chin. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011, pp. 283-302.

    “Money and Credit in the Chinese Mercantile Operations in Colonial and Precolonial Southeast Asia.” In Credit and Debt in Indonesia, 860-1930: From Peonage to Pawnshop, from Kongsi to Cooperative. Editors: David Henley and Peter Boomgaard. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies Press, 2009, pp. 124-42.

Other Information

Research Grants Received (Select)

2018-2021       MOE Tier-One Research Grant

2014-2017       Max Planck Research Project Grant

2008-2011       “Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council” Standard Research Grant, Canada


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