Education
B.A. University of Hong Kong, 2010
M.Phil. University of Hong Kong, 2014
M.A. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2017
Research Interests
My dissertation, entitled “Surviving in Great Power Politics: Transnational Anticolonialism of British Malaya,” is a cultural and intellectual history of South and Southeast Asia. It examines Malayans’ contribution to the transnational political movements based in Asia and Europe during and after the Second World War. It also explores how the circulation of political and religious ideas across the Indian Ocean significantly shaped the anticolonial discourses in late colonial Malaya. My broader research interests include twentieth-century South and Southeast Asian history; global history of (anti-)colonialism; migration and identities formation; gender history; cultural and intellectual history.
Some Notable Publications
- Lengzhan guang ying: Diyuanzhengzhi xia de Xianggang dianying shencha shi 冷戰光影: 地緣政治下的香港電影審查史 [Geopolitics and Film Censorship in Cold War Hong Kong]. (Taipei: Monsoon Zone, 2019) (ISBN: 9789869745819)
- “From Cold War Warrior to Moral Guardian: Film Censorship in Hong Kong.” In From a British to a Chinese Colony? Hong Kong before and after the 1997 Handover, edited by Gary C.H. Luk, 143–65. (Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 2017)
- Review of Television and the Modernization Ideal in 1980s China: Dazzling the Eyes, by Huike Wen (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2014). Media History 21, no. 4 (2015): 499–502
Courses Offered
- HIST134: Modern East Asia (Instructor)
- HIST140: The World since 1945 (Teaching Assistant)
- HIST276: The Modern Middle East (Teaching Assistant)
- HIST279: Modern South Africa (Teaching Assistant)