To download my articles, please visit my Academia.edu page.
Selected list of publications:
Books
The Malayan Generation: Nationalism and Decolonisation in Singapore, 1953 – 63. (forthcoming).
Refereed Journal Articles
“The Fundamental Issue is Anti-colonialism, Not Merger”: Singapore’s “Progressive Left”, Operation Coldstore, and the Creation of Malaysia, ARI Working Paper Series 211 (2014).
“Flesh and Bone Reunited As One Body: Singapore’s Chinese-Speaking and their Perspectives on Merger”, Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies Vol 5 (2011 – 12).
“‘Living Buddha’: Chinese perspectives on David Marshall and his government, 1955-56”, Indonesia and the Malay World, Vol 38, Issue 113 (July 2011).
“Chinese newspapers in Singapore, 1945-1963: Mediators of elite and popular tastes in culture and politics”, Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol 83, Part 1 (June 2010).
Book Chapters
“The New Normal is the Old Normal”, in Donald Low and Sudhir Vadaketh (eds.), Hard Choices: Challenging the Singapore Consensus. Singapore: NUS Press, 2014.
““Flesh and Bone Reunite as One Body”: Singapore’s Chinese- speaking and their Perspectives on Merger”, in Poh Soo Kai, Tan Kok Fang, and Hong Lysa (eds.), The 1963 Operation Coldstore in Singapore: Commemorating 50 Years. Petaling Jaya: Strategic Information and Research Development Centre, 2013: 73-119.
“The Limitations of Monolingual History,” in Tarling, Nicholas (ed.), Studying Singapore’s Past: C.M. Turnbull and the History of Modern Singapore. Singapore: NUS Press, 2012: 1 – 18.
“Constance Mary Turnbull, 1927-2008,” in Tarling, Nicholas (ed.), Studying Singapore’s Past: C.M. Turnbull and the History of Modern Singapore. Singapore: NUS Press, 2012: 98 – 120.
“The United States, the Cold War and countersubversion in Singapore”, in Loh Kah Seng (ed.), The Makers and Keepers of Singapore History. Singapore: Singapore Heritage Society, 2010: 158 – 170.
Editorials
Lee Kuan Yew in Singapore History. Yahoo, 23 March 2016.
A Short History of Elections in Singapore: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. The Online Citizen, 9 September 2016.
Labour Day and Our History of Hope (with Dr Loh Kah Seng). The Online Citizen, 1 May 2015. Reproduced in The Malay Mail, 2 May 2015.
Lim Chin Siong was Wrongfully Detained. The Online Citizen, 8 May 2014.
Southeast Asian Studies as a Form of Power. International Institute of Asian Studies Newsletter 62 (Winter 2012).