Educational Qualifications

2021
DPhil (PhD) in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford, UK

2016
MA in Chinese Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

2014
BA (First Class Hons), Major in Chinese Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Academic and Professional Experience

Jan 2026 – present
Senior Lecturer, Chinese Programme, Singapore University of Social Sciences

Jul 2021 – Dec 2025
Assistant Professor, School of Humanities, Nanyang Technological University

2019
Tutor, China Centre, University of Oxford

Selected Publications

(monograph) Malay–Hong Kong Film Connections: Sticky Entanglements in the Post‑Studio Era (1960s–1980s) (under contract with Edinburgh University Press)

(monograph, co‑author with Wong Han Min) Singapore’s Screening Spaces (Pagestters, forthcoming Feb 2026)

(journal article) “Transborder Malleability: Popular Nanyang and the Ambivalent Stardom of Chong Sit‑Fong”, Inter‑Asia Cultural Studies Journal (forthcoming 2026)

(journal article) “Recognizing Southeast Asia Through The Making of a Nanyang Other: The Case of Early Hong Kong‑Produced Nanyang Black Magic Films (1970s–1980s)”, Screen (forthcoming 2026)

(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.
https://doi.org/10.1215/00219118-11445279

(journal article) “Transnationalizing Malay Cinema: P. Ramlee in Hong Kong”, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol.55, Iss.1 (2024): pp.145–169.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022463424000201

(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。

(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。

(book review) “Speaking Nations, Edge Ways – Reviews of Postcolonial Hangups in Southeast Asian Cinema (Gerald Sim, 2020) and Southeast Asia on Screen (Khoo, Barker & Ainslie, 2020)”, Global Storytelling, Vol.1, No.2 (2022)

(journal article, co‑author with Toh Hun Ping) “The Relationship between Anarchism and the Film Industry in Malaya…”, Taiwan Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 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…》. Singapore: Centre for Chinese Studies, Singapore University of Social Sciences & World Scientific Publishing, 2020.

(book review, co‑author with Flair Shi Dong Lai) Review of Hee Wai Siam, Post‑Malaysian Chinese‑language Film, East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, Vol.4, Iss.2 (2018): pp.165–170.

(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.

(bilingual articles in edited volumes)
Quah Sy Ren & Hee Waisiam eds. Memorandum: A Reader of Singapore Chinese Short Stories (2016).
Quah Sy Ren & Hee Waisiam eds., Tan Danfeng trans. Memorandum: A Sinophone Singaporean Short Story Reader (2019).

(article in edited volume) “Zhuishu Ailangnuo de Xueshu Lvcheng”, in I, Lofen ed. Xueshu Jinzhen Du Yu Ren. Singapore: Global Publishing, 2015.

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