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

Tags: Ph.D. / MA Dissertations

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