Dr Wu Qi

School of Humanities and Behavioural Sciences

2019
Ph.D., National University of Singapore

2014
M.A., National University of Singapore

2012
B.A. 1st Class Hons., National University of Singapore

2024 - Present
Lecturer, Chinese Studies, School of Humanities and Behavioural Sciences, SUSS

2021 - 2024
Research Fellow, Religion and Globalisation Cluster, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore

2020 - 2023
Adjunct Lecturer, National University of Singapore

2019 - 2020
Adjunct Lecturer, Ngee Ann Polytechnic

2016
Visiting Graduate Student, Department of Sociology, The University of Hong Kong

2016
Visiting Graduate Student, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge

Books:

Wu Qi.
Looking at the Flying Clouds from the South: Transregional Network of the Dejiao Charity Organization in Southeast Asia (南望飛雲：東南亞德教慈善團體的跨域網路). Forthcoming, manuscript accepted for publication.

Wu Qi.
Journey to the East, Roots Searching of Dejiaohui. Manuscript in preparation.

Book Chapter:

“Comparative Study of Haw Par Villa in Singapore and Yongding (新加坡、永定兩地虎豹別墅的比較研究)”, in Wong Sin Kiong, eds. Trans-regional and Cross-disciplinary Studies on Hakka Culture (Singapore: NUS Chinese Studies, Char Yang Association, Global Publishing, 2015), pp.39-58.

Refereed Article:

“Join from home – Three scenarios of Singaporean Chinese temples in the time of COVID”, CoronAsur Religion & Covid-19. 2022. https://ari.nus.edu.sg/20331-111/

“Bo Juyi’s Chang’an Mentality and the Composition of Poetry (白居易的長安心態與詩歌創作)”, in Journal of Chinese Language and Culture 中國言語文化, Vol.3 (Seoul: Chinese Language and Culture Society, 2013), pp.359-376.

“If False Make the True and True as Well False- Zhen Shiyin, Jia Yucun and the Theme of Reality and Illusion in The Story of the Stone (假作真時真亦假——甄士隱和賈雨村與《紅樓夢》中的真假題旨)”, in Cao Xueqin Studies 曹雪芹研究, Vol.2 (Beijing: Zhonghua Book Company, 2012), pp.124-136.

Project: “Reconstructing and Rediscovering Kampong Heritage through Local Chinese Temples”.

Period: 2023 - July 2024
Role: Principal Investigator
Grantors: National Heritage Board Heritage Research Grant
Project: “Cohesion, Community Care and Confi dence in Singaporean Chinese Temples and Associations and Other Asian Religious Institutions: The Impacts of Globalisation and Religious Responses to the Coronavirus Pandemic”.

Period: 19 July 2021 – 30 December 2023
Role: Co-investigator
Principal Investigator: Professor Kenneth Dean (NUS)
Grantors: Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth (MCCY)

5 October 2023, “Mapping Evolution of Chinese Institutions in Singapore: A Historical GIS Study”, Connecting to the World Talk Series, City University of Hong Kong.
23 August 2023, “From Replicating Hometown to Tracing Roots: A Case Study of Singapore’s Ling Hong Tong Temple”, Global China in a Religious World: BRINFAITH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, BRINFAITH, Asian Religious Connections Research Cluster, HKIHSS, HKU & Asia Research Institute (ARI), National University of Singapore & Centre for Global Asia, NYU Shanghai.
11th May 2023, “A Singapore Historical GIS Analysis: the transformations of Chinese institutions”, Invited talk for Cultural Exchange Oasis of City University of Hong Kong, National University of Singapore.
12th -13th February 2020, “The Charitable Activities of the Dejiaohui (Society for the Teaching of Morality)”, Conference on Cross-cultural and Comparative Study of Donation, Endowment and Benefit, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.
13th September 2016, “The Dejiaohui and the Construction and Development of Its Transnational Network”, Spirituality, Religion and Society Lecture Series, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong.
3rd-4th March 2016, “Divine Mechanisms: The Recent Spread of Dejiaohui”, Conference on Comparative Approaches to Inter-Asian Religious & Trade Networks, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.
4th June 2015, “Tang Poems and Urbanization: A Study of Chang’an Poems in Post-Chang’an Era”, Conference on Chinese Linguistic, Literature & Culture, National University of Singapore and Hong Kong Baptist University, Singapore.
15th June 2013, “Bo Juyi’s Chang’an Mentality and the Composition of Poetry”, the 14th International Symposium on Chinese Language and Culture. Chinese Studies, Hanyang University, Korean Chinese Language and Culture Academic Committee, Seoul, Korea.
14th March 2013, “The Expansion and Evolution of Cao Tang’s ‘Longer Poems on Roaming in Transcendence’ within the Poetic Tradition論曹唐《大遊仙詩》對遊仙詩的創拓”, the 26th conference of “Chinese Literature Studies” (Vol.36), Research Institution, Department of Chinese Literature, National Taiwan University, Taipei.

Research Scholarship, National University of Singapore, AUG 2014- AUG 2018.
Research Scholarship, National University of Singapore, JAN 2012- JAN 2014.
Dean’s List, National University of Singapore, 2012.
Dean’s List, National University of Singapore, 2011.

Research Interests
Overseas Chinese Society
Southeast Asia Chinese
Chinese Religion
Globalisation, transregional networks
Classical Chinese Literature

Dr Wu Qi

Lecturer, Chinese Studies

Educational Qualifications

Academic and Professional Experience