Researching History: List of Dissertations (Post-Graduate)
Compiled by Hu Wen and Ho Chi Tim
The following list of dissertations (Ph.D. and Masters) is an overdue idea we finally got down to making it happen. There are various objectives in putting such a record together. One is to aid historical research in providing a useful inventory for the undergraduate and postgraduate history student fishing around for ideas or inspiration. Another is to showcase what is proving to be an expanding list of graduate work submitted by a diverse postgraduate community at the Department of History in NUS. A third objective is also to record dissertations concerning Singapore history from other universities. This way, we pay our dues to the historical discipline, the institutions in which we study and practice history, as well as the country citizen historian is based in.
This postgraduate list collects (1) all MA and Ph.D. (indicated before title) dissertations submitted to the Department of History (NUS), and (2) dissertations concerning Singapore history from other colleges and universities (indicated after title). The list is not exhaustive and is put together by using information made available online by the Department of History and the Library INtegrated Catalogue (LINC) of the NUS Libraries. The list is arranged by time period.
Information is correct as at 1 October 2007
2000s
Ang, Claudine 1954-1975 Vietnamese Historiography: Using Regionalism to Study Narratives of Vietnamese History
Chang, Yueh Siang, The Subversion of Public Icons: John Ruskin and the Crystal Palace
Chi Zhen, (Ph.D.) A Pragmatic Experiment of Rural Construction Movement: The Self-government of Wanxi in Southwestern Henan, 1930-1940
Chen Liang, (Ph.D.) From a Christian Socialist to a Christian Realist: Reinhold Niebuhr and the Soviet Union, 1930-1945
Chee, Pui Yee, A Nation in Art: Drawing Education in Meiji Japan
Cherry, Haydon, Excavating the Foundations of Identity: Archaeology and Nationalism in Vietnam
Chiang Ky, “Malaysian Malaysia†and Communal Politics (1964-1969): Malaysian Chinese Responses
Chua, Ai Lin, Negotiating national identity: the English speaking domiciled communities in Singapore, 1930-1941
Chua, Emily A Popular History of the PRC: Narratives of the Nation in Best-selling Biographies and Memoirs
Chwee, Cheng Foon, Secret Societies in Singapore: Survival Strategies, 1930s to 1950s
Deepa Nair, (Ph.D.) Political Agenda of History Teaching in India since Independence
Fang, Xiaoping, (Ph.D.) Barefoot Doctors in Chinese Villages: Medical Contestation, Structural Evolution, and Professional Formation, 1968-1983
Han, Jeremy, New Era, New Friends: ANZUS in the Straits of Malacca 1965-9
Harminder Kaur, Beautifying the Indian: The Culture of cometics in colonial urban India
Hu Wen, To Forge a Strong and Wealthy China?: The Buy-Chinese Products Movement in Singapore, 1905-1937
Ismail, Sarah Mei, From Negara to Kota: The Size and Structure of Maritine cities in Southeast Asia
Jiang Na, Negotiating the Image of a New Woman: Women Intellectuals’ Group Identity and the Funü Zhoukan (Women’s Weekly) in the 1930s China
Kartini Saparudin, Colonisation of Everyday Life” in the 1950s & 1960s: Towards the Malayan Dream
Keong, Joann Mei Lin, “Sowing the Feeds of Faith”: Missionaries, Conversion and Leadership in the Methodist Church of Singapore, 1880 – 1920
Khoo, Kevin, The Moral Psychology of Christopher Lasch: From The Culture of Narcissism to The True and Only Heaven
Koh, Priscilla Siew Im, Perception and portrayal of minorities in Vietnamese communist ethnology (1954-2001)
Kwee, Hui Kian, Enunciating “Chineseness” in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century Singapore
Lawrence, Kelvin, All Things To All Men: Reimagining the Intellectual Life of Raja Ali Haji of Riau
Lee, Jerry Kah Seng, Dutch and British Colonial Policies in the East Indies (1795-1824)
Lee, Keith Kum Chuen, Conquest or collaboration in Portuguese Malacca from 1511 to 1521
Liew, Kai Khiun, Raised voices and dropped tools: labour unrest at the harbour and Naval dockyard in Singapore (1952-72)
Lim, Cheng Tju, Chinese cartoons in Singapore: images of politics, polarity and plurality
Lim, Tin Seng, Forgotten Promises. Settling the ‘Blood-debt’ Issue and Constructing the Civilian War Memorial
Loh, Kah Seng, Beyond “Rubber prices” history: life in Singapore during the great depression years
Lotha, Liteno, Importance of Northeast India as a Cultural and Trade Link between India and Southeast Asia
Low, James Choon Sai, Kept in position: the labour front-alliace goverment of chief minister David Marshall in Singapore, April 1955-June 1956
Mala Rajo Sathian, (Ph.D.) Socio-Economic History of the Southern Thai Provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat (c.19th – 20th Century)
Manickam, Sandra, Ideas of nation and Malayness in Malaya 1809-1942: A History of Inclusion and Exclusion
Mohamed Nawab Bin Mohamed Osman, Religio-Political Activism of Ulama in Malaysia
Moo, Yubin, Comparative Study of U Nu and Sihanouk
Musitelli, Diego, The Conduct of Singapore’s foreign policy and the Vietnam War 1965-68
Nurfadzilah bte Yahaya, Good Friends and Dangerous Enemies – British Images of the Arab Elite in Colonial Singapore (1819-1942)
Ong, Alexander, Relations between Ming China and Vietnam during the Early Fifteenth Century
Ong, Zhen Min, The History of the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (1938-1990)
Qian, Bo, Brotherhood Societies in China: Their Evolution in Guangdong, 1900-1910
Seah, Bee Leng, Phoenix without wings: The negotiation of modernity among Straits Chinese women in early twentieth century Singapore
Seah, Leander, Historicizing Hybridity and Globalization: The South Seas Society in Singapore, 1940-2000
Seng, Guo Quan, The Origins of the Socialist Revolution in Sarawak 1945-1963
Seng, Yu Jin, The Primacy of Painting: The Institutional Structure of the Singapore Art World from 1935 to 1972
Shen, Huifen, (Ph.D.) Engendering Chinese Migration History: “Left-behind Wives of The Nanyang Migrants†in Quanzhou before and after the Pacific War
Sim, Sophie, Fishy Tales: Singapura Di Langgar Todak as Myth and History in Singapore’s Past
Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied, Raffles’s Discourses of Religions amongst the Malays
Tan, Li-Jen, Sants & Matyrs in the Diaspora: Sikh Identities in Post-Colonial Singapore & Malaysia
Tay, Yie Shan, State and contention in eighteenth-century China
Tessensohn, Denyse, The British Military Administration’s Treason Trial of Dr Charles Joseph Paglar, 1946
Tunas, Devisanthi, The Chinese Settlement in Bandung at the Turn of the 20th Century
Vanichviroon, Kunakorn, Imagining Ayutthaya: A recent Transformation in the Thai Collective Identity of the Past
Wang, Luman, The Rise and Decline of Shanxi piaohao in the late Qing Dynasty, 1820-1911
Wee, Tong Bao, The development of modern Chinese vernacular education in Singapore: society, politics & policies, 1905-1941
Yang, Shao-Yun, Becoming Zhongguo, Becoming Han: Tracing & Reconceptualizing Ethnicity in Ancient North China. 770BC-AD581
1990s
Lee, Chor Lin, Textile trade between China and Southeast Asia during the Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties
Lee, Su Yin, British Chinese policy in Singapore, 1930s to mid-1950s: with particular focus on the public service career of Tan Chin Tuan
Liew, Clement, Rooting a church in an immigrant society: the Chinese Catholic community of Singapore 1832 to 1935
Ooi, Keat Gin, Education in Sarawak: an historical survey, 1841-1963
Shahril Mohd. Shah, Jamiyah: religion and the state, 1930-1980
Vanaja Dharmalingam, The British and the Muslim religious endowments in colonial Malaya
1980s
Lee, Edwin, (Ph.D.) Singapore 1867-1914: British rule in a multi-racial society
Lee, Ting Hui, (Ph.D.) The Communist open united front in Singapore, 1954-1966
Tan, Tai-yong, Sikh responses to the demand for Pakistan, 1940-1947
Yeo, Katherine Lian Bee, Hawkers and the state in colonial Singapore: mid-nineteenth century to 1939, [Monash University]
Yong, Mun Cheong, (Ph.D.) H.J. van Mook and Indonesian independence: a study of his role in Dutch-Indonesian relations, 1945-48
1970s
Mew, Yew-hwa, A comparative study of the ideas behind the self-strengthening movement in China, 1861-1895
Pakir Singh, The achievement of Punjabi Suba 1947-1966
1960s
Chew, Ernest Chin Tiong, Sir Frank Swettenham’s Malayan career up to 1896
Hazra, Niranjan Kumar, Malaya’s foreign relations, 1957-1963
Kathirithamby, Jeyamalar, The Singapore administration and its civil servants, 1819-30, [University of Malaya]
Samuel, Dhoraisingam S., A comparative study of the Malayan and the Singapore legislatures, 1945-1959
Suntharalingam, Ramanthan, The establishment of British power in West Sumatra, 1685-1716
Tan, Seng Huat, The early Chinese newspapers of Singapore, 1881-1912
Wen, Chung-chi, The nineteenth-century Imperial Chinese Consulate in the Straits Settlements: origins and development
Yeo, Kim Wah, Political development in Singapore, 1945-55
1950s
Bogaars, George, The Tanjong Pagar Dock Co., Ltd., 1864-1905
Lee, Ah Chai, Policies and politics in Chinese schools in the Straits Settlements and the Federated Malay States, 1786-1941
Mallal, Munir Ahmad, J.W.W. Birch: causes of his assassination.
Wang, Gungwu, The Nanhai trade: a study of the early history of Chinese trade in the South China Sea
Wong, Lin Ken, A study of the trade of Singapore: 1819-1869