Colonial Southeast Asia – China connections
Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality Studies
The Chinese Diaspora
Imperialism
Maritime Asia

• “Creolised Confucianism: Syncretism and Confucian revivalism at the turn of the twentieth century Java,” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol 1-2 (June 2020).

• “Introduction: Charting the Maritime Structures in the Asian Seas” in Collected Essays of To the Seas and Beyond: An International Conference on the Maritime Silk Road (Hong Kong: Hong Kong Museum of History and Department of History, Hong Kong Baptist University, 2018), pp. 9-11.

• 〈儒教之安拉：殖民時期中華馬來文化圈之宗教混合〉，《海上絲綢之路史國際學術研討會論文集》（香港：香港歷史博物館及香港浸會大學歷史系，2018），頁241-246。

• (Co-editor) Collected Essays of To the Seas and Beyond: An International Conference on the Maritime Silk Road, Clara Wing-chung Ho, Oiyan Liu, Thomas Marling, Ka-lai Chan, et. al. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong Museum of History and Department of History, Hong Kong Baptist University, 2018).

• “Countering ‘Chinese Imperialism’: Sinophobia and Border Protection in the Dutch East Indies,” Indonesia 97 (April 2014): 87-110.
  
  
• “Chinese Education Across the Empires: Knowledge, Politics, and Networks between Batavia, Singapore and Nanjing,” in Chapters on Asia (Singapore: National Library Board, March 2014), pp. 132-150.

• “The Educational Movement in the Early Twentieth Century Batavia and Its Connections with Singapore and China,” BiblioAsia, Vol. 6, No. 3 (October 2010): 22-28.

• (Translator) “The Oceanography of the Archipelago”, “Is Opium a Genuine Evil? (1882)”, “Marriage in Minahasa” in Tineke Hellwig and Eric Tagliacozzo (eds.), The Indonesia Reader: History, Culture, Politics (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2009).

• (Co-author) “The National Archives (Jakarta) and the Writing of Transnational Histories of Indonesia,” in Itinerario: International Journal of the History of European Expansion and Global Interaction 1 (2008): 81-94.

Externally funded projects as Principal Investigator:

• (01/2021-06/2023) “Centering Dutch Indies Chinese from the Margins: On Nationality and Subjectness in an Era of Inter-Imperial Rivalry, ca. 1854-1930.” Supported by RGC’s General Research Fund

• (01/2019-12/2022) “Chinese Mixed-race Communities in Eastern Java and Their Regional Connections: The Shaping of a Maritime Silk Road Corridor, 1400-1900.” Supported by RGC’s Early Career Scheme

• “China’s Southeast Asia: Territory, People, Civilization, and Europe’s Fear.” Supported by RGC’s General Research Fund

Externally funded project as Co-Investigator:

• “Where ‘Hong Kong in the Sea’ and ‘Hong Kong on the Land’ Meets – A Study on the Conversation of Building Clusters in the Ap Lei Chau-Aberdeen-Lamma Island Area.” Supported by the Built Heritage Conservation Fund, HKSAR Development Bureau.