Biographies are listed by family names in alphabetical order. Some biographies are still being constructed.
Ang Song Ming makes art about music. www.circadiansongs.com (Oct 2009)
Yu-Mei Balasingamchow is a writer. She studied English and history at Northwestern University in the US on an Overseas Merit Scholarship (Teaching) from the Singapore Public Service Commission. She completed her scholarship bond on 14 July 2005 (as far as she knows, anyway – she never got PSC to verify the exact date). She is the co-author of the forthcoming Singapore: A Biography, a popular history of Singapore. She divides her time between living in Singapore, where she writes about history, film and culture, and travelling across Asia, researching and writing for travel publications such as Lonely Planet. (Jul 2009)
Kevin Blackburn lectures in history at the Humanities and Social Studies Education Department, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. (Oct 2009)
Dr Chen Chi Nan is the the third son of Dr Chen Su Lan (1885 – 1972), who was among the first seven graduates of the King Edward VII Medical School in 1910 that was the original institution of NUS. Chen Su Lan was closely associated with the Methodist Church in Singapore. He founded the Chinese Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) in 1945 and formed the Chen Su Lan Trust in 1947. The Chen Su Lan Trust is still active in philanthropic giving today, particularly in the field of education. (Bio by K.C. Chew; Jun 2009)
Mark Ravinder Frost studied history at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge and is currently Research Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong. Between 2005 and 2007, he worked as Content Designer and Senior Scriptwriter for the National Museum of Singapore’s award-winning Singapore History Gallery. He is the author of the forthcoming books Singapore: A Living History and Enlightened Empires: New literati in the Indian Ocean world, 1870-1920. (Jun 2009)
Daniel PS Goh is assistant professor at the Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore. He teaches Race and Multiculturalism, and Environmental Sociology, but researches on state-formation and culture. He is a member of the s/pores editorial collective. (Jun 2009)
Ho Weng Hin is an architectural restoration specialist and architectural historian, and received his postgraduate training in Genoa, Italy. Besides working on historic monuments in Singapore and Malaysia, he is currently co-authoring “Our Modern Past: Modern Architecture in Singapore 1920s-70s”, commissioned by Singapore Heritage Society and partially sponsored by the URA. Ho was former Editor of “Singapore Architect”, the bimonthly professional journal of the Singapore Institute of Architects. (Jul 2009)
Philip Holden is associate professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the National University of Singapore, teaching and researching Singaporean and Southeast Asian Literatures. He is also currently vice president of Singapore Heritage Society. (Jan 2008)
Hong Lysa, a historian, is the co-author of The scripting of a National History: Singapore and Its Pasts (2008). She is a s/porean. (Jul 2009)
Kwee Hui Kian is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on Southeast Asia and South China, where she has examined various themes relating to colonialism, capitalism, political economy and diasporic entrepreneurship, from the seventeenth century to the present. Currently, besides archival and library research, she is also doing fieldwork and collecting oral histories in many Chinese temples and related associations in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. When she has spare time, she tries to gather data on the history of her parents’ old kampung near the Paya Lebar airport. (Jun 2009)
李慧玲，新闻工作者，曾经担任《联合早报》驻香港、北京记者。也是公民团体圆切线创社社员。 Lee Huay Leng is a journalist who works for Lianhe Zaobao. She was its correspondent in Hong Kong and Beijing and she is now based in Singapore. Huay Leng is also the founding member of Tangent, a civil society group. (Jul 2009)
Edgar Liao will soon become an independent writer, right after he finishes his M.A. thesis on the history of student activism in the University of Malaya and Singapore, 1949-1975 in the Department of History, NUS. His bio will be longer once he finds sufficient cause to extend it. (Jul 2009)
Lim Cheng Tju is a secondary school history teacher who writes about history and popular culture in Singapore. His articles have appeared in Southeast Asian Journal of Social Science, Journal of Popular Culture and Print Quarterly. He is also the country editor for the International Journal of Comic Art. (Jun 2009)
Francis Lim teaches in the Division of Sociology at Nanyang Technological University. His research interests include religion, tourism and globalization, covering various Asian regions. (Jun 2009)
Loh Kah Seng is Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS). He has a keen research interest in Singapore history, particularly the official use of history, the Great Depression, leprosy, the student movement, and oral history and memory. (Jul 2009)
MK Rajakumar
Thum Ping Tjin is a PhD candidate in Modern History at the University of Oxford, UK. His interests include Chinese migration and the relationship of the Chinese diaspora to colonisation and decolonisation. (Jan 2008)
Sai Siew Min is Assistant Professor at the Department of History, National University of Singapore, where she teaches courses on history in Singapore, Indonesia as well as gender history in Asia. (Jun 2009)
Dr Poh Soo Kai is a medical doctor. He was a founder member of the University of Malaya Socialist Club, and one of the students charged with sedition in the Fajar trial in 1954. A former assistant secretary-general of the Barisan Socialis, he was detained on two separate occasions for a period totaling seventeen years.
Tan Jing Quee is a lawyer. He was a former President of the University of Malaya Socialist Club. Jing Quee co-edited with Jomo K. S. Comet in the Sky, a volume of essays commemorating Lim Chin Siong. A former political detainee, Jing Quee has recently co-edited with Teo Soh Lung and Koh Kay Yew Our Thoughts Are Free, a collection of poetry composed by former political detainees in Singapore. (Jul 2009)
Tan Pin Pin is a filmmaker who explores the notion of Singapore in her films. Her credits include Singapore GaGa, Invisible City, Moving House. 80km/h. www.tanpinpin.com.
Teng Qian Xi is a writer. Her interest in political detention in Singapore was prompted after reading Comet in our Sky: Lim Chin Siong in History at eighteen. Her first collection of poetry, They hear salt crystallising, will be published at the end of 2009. (Oct 2009)
Joseph Tham is an educator working in Singapore who is interested in all genres of music, particularly the avant gardist side of things. A history graduate of the National University of Singapore, he also enjoys reading and films. He is keen to understand the social, economic and political context of music/literature movements and genres, and the interface between modernist art and music and its relationship with the cultural avant-garde. He used to co-run a hole-in-the-wall record shop specializing in alternative and experimental music.
Professor Wang Gungwu is the Chairman of the East Asian Institute and University Professor, National University of Singapore. He is also Emeritus Professor of the Australian National University. Prof Wang’s bio at the East Asian Institute’s website
Robert Yeo: poet, playwright, novelist and former senior lecturer, Division of Literature and Drama, School of Arts, National Institute of Education. He is the president of The Association for Literature Education (TALE) and is often associated with his second generation literary contemporaries, poets Lee Tzu Pheng and Arthur Yap. Robert Yeo’s bio at the National Library Board’s Infopedia
