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Portfolio

Publications

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journal article

"Transborder Malleability: Examining Popular Nanyang through Film Stardom", Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Journal, forthcoming 2026.

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MONOGRAPH

Malay-Hong Kong Film Connections (working title, under contract with

Edinburgh University Press)

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JOURNAL ARTICLE

"Recognising Southeast Asia Through the Making of a Nanyang Other: Hong Kong-produced Nanyang Black Magic Films (1970s-1980s)", Screen, forthcoming 2026. 

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MONOGRAPH, CO-AUTHOR WITH WONG HAN MIN

Singapore’s Screening Spaces (under contract with Pagesetters; forthcoming Jan 2026)

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JOURNAL ARTICLE

Fiercely Independent, Tentatively National: The Three Made-in-Hong Kong Malay-language James Bond Films”, Journal of Asian Studies, Vol.84, No.1 (2025), pp.30-54.

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journal article

“Transnationalizing Malay Cinema: P. Ramlee in Hong Kong”, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol.55, Iss.1 (2024): pp.145-169

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BILINGUAL ARTICLE IN CO-EDITED VOLUME

“Forum Theatre”, in Quah Sy Ren ed. Drama Box: 30 Keywords. Singapore: Drama Box and Pagesetters, 2022, pp.64-71.


〈论坛剧场〉,见于柯思仁编《戏剧和30关键词》(新加坡:戏剧盒与创页服务私人有限公司,2022年),页64-71。

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BILINGUAL ARTICLE IN CO-EDITED VOLUME

“ARTivate”, in Quah Sy Ren ed. Drama Box: 30 Keywords. Singapore: Drama Box and Pagesetters, 2022, pp.248-253.
 

〈艺树人〉,见于柯思仁编《戏剧和30关键词》(新加坡:戏剧盒与创页服务私人有限公司,2022年),页248-253。

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BOOK REVIEW

“Speaking Nations, Edge Ways - Reviews of Postcolonial Hangups in Southeast Asian Cinema: Poetics of Space, Sound and Stability by Gerald Sim, Amsterdam University Press, 2020; and Southeast Asia on Screen: From Independence to Financial Crisis (1945 – 1998) edited by Gaik Cheng Khoo, Thomas Barker, and Mary Ainslie, Amsterdam University Press, 2020”, Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images, Vol.1, No.2 (2022): no page number.

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JOURNAL ARTICLE, CO-AUTHOR WITH TOH HUN PING

 “The Relationship between Anarchism and the Film Industry in Malaya: A Preliminary Investigation into the Role of the Nanyang Film Company as Contact Point in the 1925 Kuala Lumpur Bomb Outrage (馬來亞無政府主義運動的電影牽繫:1925 年吉隆坡爆炸案中南洋影片公司的聯絡站角色初探)”, Taiwan Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (台灣東南亞學刊), Vol.15, No.2 (2020): pp.5-32

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MONOGRAPH

Our Cinema, Our Home: Amoy-dialect Cinema and Dialect Identity Transformations in Singapore and Malaya (1948-1966) (我们的电影,我们的家:厦语电影与新马厦语身份的渐变 (1948-1966)). Singapore: Centre for Chinese Studies, Singapore University of Social Sciences and World Scientific Publishing, 2020.

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BOOK REVIEW, CO-AUTHOR WITH FLAIR SHI DONG LAI

“Hee Wai Siam (许维贤), Post-Malaysian Chinese-language Film: Accented Style, Sinophone and Auteur Theory (华语电影在后马来西亚:土腔风格、华夷风和作者论). (Taipei: Lianjin, 2018)”, East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, Vol.4, Iss. 2 (2018): pp.165-170.

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CO-EDIT WITH SU ZHANG KAI AND TOH HUN PING

Xue Ni Fang Zong: Zhuang Xue Fang (雪霓芳踪:莊雪芳). Singapore: Lingzi Media, 2017.

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BILINGUAL ARTICLES IN EDITED VOLUME

Quah, Syren and Hee, Waisiam eds. Memorandum: A Reader of Singapore Chinese Short Stories (备忘录: 新加坡华文小说读本). Singapore: Centre for Chinese Language and Culture and Global Publishing, 2016; Quah, Syren and Hee, Waisiam eds., Tan Danfeng trans. Memorandum: A Sinophone Singaporean Short Story Reader. Singapore: Ethos Publishing, 2019.

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ARTICLE IN EDITED VOLUME

 “Zhuishu Ailangnuo de Xueshu Lvcheng” (追述艾朗诺 (Ronald Egan) 的学术旅程), in I, Lofen ed. Xueshu Jinzhen Du Yu Ren (学术金针度与人). Singapore: Global Publishing, 2015.

Exhibitions

Dwellings: A series of short videos on Singapore’s cinema history, in collaboration with Singapore International Film Festival 2024 and 2025

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Comic Relief: Special Exhibition on Wang Sha and Ye Feng 2024 嬉笑怒骂:王沙野峰电影回顾特展 2024” for the Asian Film Archive, with accompanying essay

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Guest curator for special programme on Amoy-dialect cinema at the Singapore Chinese Film Festival, 2020

Consultancy

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External consultant for Revival Heritage Consultants Ltd. (commissioned by Shaw Brothers (Hong Kong)), 2022-2023, for the history of Shaw Brothers in Singapore

Teaching (undergraduate and postgraduate levels)

Special Topics in Ethnic Chinese Studies: Interrogating the Concept of "Nanyang"
(Nanyang Technological University, Chinese Studies Bachelor's Degree programme)

2021 – 2025

Aesthetics of the South
(Nanyang Technological University, Chinese Studies Bachelor's Degree programme)

2022 – 2024

Chinese-language Cultural Production in Singapore
(Nanyang Technological University, Chinese Studies Bachelor's Degree programme)

2022 – 2024

Introduction to Literature and Cultural Criticism
(Nanyang Technological University, Chinese Studies Bachelor's Degree programme)

2025

Transnationality in Southeast Asian Cinemas
(Nanyang Technological University, Broadening and Deepening Elective)

2022 – 2024

Research Methodology
(Nanyang Technological University, Masters in Translation and Interpretation)

2023 & 2025

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