Academic Team

Professor Wang Gungwu 

Distinguished historian and educator;
Chair, East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore;
Pioneer academic in diasporic Chinese studies;
Academic advisor, The International Journal of Diasporic Chinese Studies

Dean of The College of Chinese Culture (Guoxue), Professor, Peking University;
Director, The Central Literature and History Institute, The State Council, China;
Committee member, Academic Degree Committee, The State Council, China

Distinguished Chinese linguist, expert of Singapore language education studies and language policy studies;
Adjunct Professor, Division of Chinese, School of Humanities, NTU;
Director, Board of Directors, Confucius Institute, NTU;
Member, Academic Board, Confucius Institute, NTU;
Founding Director, Centre for Chinese Language and Culture, NTU

Associate Professor Yow Cheun Hoe

Director, Centre for Chinese Language and Culture

CLC 01-13, Centre for Chinese Language and Culture (CCLC)
Nanyang Technological University
Chinese Heritage Centre Building
46 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639817

Tel: (65) 6790 6306; 6790 6710

Email: [email protected]

Mr. Zeng Yajun

Project Officer,
Publishing Editor, The International Journal of Diasporic Chinese Studies
Tan Lark Sye Professorship Public Lectures (Event Coordinator)


Tel: 6592 1829
Email: [email protected]

Mr. Zhong Zhitao

Research Associate,
Tan Lark Sye Professorship Public Lectures (Event Coordinator)


Tel: 6592 7832
Email: [email protected]

Associate Professor I Lo-fen
Ph.D., National Taiwan University
Invited Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Chinese Language & Culture (NTU);
Associate Professor, Division of Chinese (NTU) 

Project in Collaboration: The Nanyang Series on Humanities Studies (Literary and Cultural Studies) (co-editor)

Research Interests: Chinese poetry and visual arts; Chinese literary works on paintings; Su Shi studies; Interchange of East-Asian culture and literature in classical Chinese; Asian visual culture

Email:[email protected]

Biography

Associate Professor QUAH Sy Ren
Ph.D., Cambridge University
Invited Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Chinese Language and Culture (NTU);
Associate Professor, Division of Chinese (NTU)

Projects in Collaboration: The Nanyang Series of Humanities Studies (Deputy Editor);
The Nanyang Series of Humanities Studies (Literary and Cultural Studies) (Editor)

Research Interests: Literary and Cultural Theory; Sinophone Literature; History of Singapore Theatre

Email: [email protected] 

Associate Professor HUANG Jianli
Ph.D., The Australian National University
Invited Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Chinese Language & Culture (NTU);
Associate Professor, Department of History, National University of Singapore

Collaborated Project: Study of the History of Nanyang University

Research Interests: Party policies on student politics in China, 1920s-1940s; Local self-government in wartime Chongqing, 1937-1945; Post-war Singapore Chinese community; Sino-Southeast Asia interactions; Chinese overseas diaspora studies

Email: [email protected]

Biography​

Professor ZENG Ling
Ph.D., Xiamen University
Invited Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Chinese Language and Culture (NTU);
Professor, Department of History, Xiamen University

Professor ZENG Shaocong
Ph.D., Xiamen University
Invited Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Chinese Language and Culture (NTU);
Professor, Department of Anthropology, Xiamen University;
Professor, Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Project in Collaboration: The International Journal of Diasporic Chinese Studies (Chief Editor)

Research Interests: Overseas Chinese; The history and culture of the Han ethnic group: Hakka studies and the history of Ming and Qing

Email: [email protected]

Biography

Professor LIAO Chiyang
Ph.D., The University of Tokyo
Invited Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Chinese Language and Culture (NTU);
Professor, College of Arts, Musashino Art University, Japan

Project in Collaboration: The International Journal of Diasporic Chinese Studies (Editorial board member)

Research Interests: Literature of overseas Chinese; History of overseas Chinese

Email: [email protected]

Biography​

Professor LEE Leong Sze
Ph.D., Nanyang Technological University
Invited Research Fellow, Centre for Chinese Language and Culture (NTU);
Professor and Director, Research Centre for Southeast and South Asia, National Kaohsiung Normal University

Collaborated Project: Study of the History of Nanyang University

Research Interests: Migration studies; Hakka studies; Overseas Min people and Hakka people studies; Historical theory and methodology studies; The relationship between multi-culture and ethnic groups

Email: [email protected]

Biography ​​(in Chinese)​

Dr ZHOU Zhaocheng
Ph.D., Nanyang Technological University
Invited Research Fellow, Centre for Chinese Language and Culture (NTU);
Adjunct Assistant  Professor, Nanyang Centre for Public Administration (NTU)  

Visiting Researcher, Centre for Chinese Language & Culture (NTU);

Invited Research Fellow, Centre for Chinese Language and Culture (NTU)

• ​Study of intellectuals in 20th history, with focus on Chinese intellectuals outside the mainland China in the 20th century     

• Modern Chinese education in Southeast Asia

• Studies on inter-regional cultural exchanges between China/Hong Kong and Southeast Asia

• Comparative studies on the two British colonies of Hong Kong and Singapore 
  

• Biographical & life writing studies​