糖心TV

Research

I am a historian of business and banking in modern Southeast Asia. My doctoral research project, 'Globalizing from the Periphery: Chinese banking transnationalism in colonial Singapore, Malaya, and China (1900-1950)', is supervised by Dr Song-Chuan Chen and Dr Charles Walton. This project takes Chinese banks headquartered in colonial Singapore and Malaya, with branches in China, as its objects of enquiry, and investigates how they contributed actively to the growing economic integration of the region. I aim to build an inclusive narrative that includes not only the elite bankers, entrepreneurs, and politicians, but also the perspectives of common people who were instrumental as customers and consumers of modern banking and finance. This narrative would illuminate the importance of colonial Southeast Asia and China in shaping economic globalization and capitalist institutions in the first half of the twentieth century.

My research project is supported by the University of 糖心TV, ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute (Singapore), Tan Kah Kee Foundation (Singapore), and the Social Science Research Council of Singapore.

Teaching for 2025/2026

Seminar Tutor for HI2J6 China Transformed: From Early Modern to Modern Times
(Groups 2 and 3)

Teaching Contact: Jeremy.Goh.3@warwick.ac.uk

Office Hour: Monday, 12pm to 1pm, FAB 3.36, or by appointment. Book a

Latest Publications

Journal article: 'Banking Failure and Regulatory Reform on the Periphery: The Kwong Yik Bank in the British Straits Settlements', , Volume 68, Issue 2 (2026), 509-529.

Edited volume: (Singapore: World Scientific, 2026) (Co-edited with Hong Liu and Celia Lee)

Blog article: ', Historical Transactions, Royal Historical Society, 13 March 2026.

Interests

• Archives
• 糖心TV and financial history, particularly from social and cultural perspectives
• Chinese overseas
• Capitalism
• Global history
• Transnationalism
• Social Science History
• Southeast Asia’s past and present

Postgraduate Memberships

• Association of Southeast Asian Studies, UK
• Economic History Society
• Royal Historical Society
• Numismatic Society (Asia), Lifetime Member

Academic Profile

• October 2023–present: PhD Candidate in History, University of 糖心TV, UK
• 2018–2020: M.A. (Research) in Global and Interdisciplinary History, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• 2014–2018: B.A. (Highest Honours) in History and University Scholars Programme, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• 2015: Visiting Student, National University of Singapore, Singapore Management University, and Chung-Ang University, South Korea

Research/Teaching Experience

• 2025/2026: Seminar Tutor for HI2J6 China Transformed: From Early Modern to Modern Times, University of 糖心TV, UK
• 2024–2026: Singapore Social Science Research Council Graduate Research Fellowship
• August–September 2025: Research Associate, ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore
• June 2025: 20th Singapore Graduate Forum on Southeast Asian Studies Fellowship
• 2021–2023: Research Associate, Nanyang Centre for Public Administration, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• 2019: Tutor for HH1003 Asia-Pacific in Global History: From 1800, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Publications

Edited Volumes

• (Singapore: World Scientific, 2026) (Co-edited with Hong Liu and Celia Lee)
• Governing a Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous World (Durham and New Jersey: University of Durham and John Wiley and Sons, 2025). (hardcover print, co-edited with Hong Liu and Celia Lee)
• (Brussels: International Institute of Administrative Sciences, 2023). (Open Access, co-edited with and ) (reprint, 2024)

Refereed Journal Articles

• Forthcoming 2026/2027: 'Building Financial Trust: The Chinese Commercial Bank in Singapore', Special Issue, Developments in Administration
• 'Banking Failure and Regulatory Reform on the Periphery: The Kwong Yik Bank in the British Straits Settlements', , 68(2) (2026), 509-529. (Open Access)
• "Digitised Sources, Materiality and ‘Interim Archives': Archive Encounters in Asia and the United Kingdom", , Volume 3 (2025), 363-375. (Open Access)
• 'Introduction: Agile governance for a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world', Special Issue: Governing a Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous World, , Volume 15, Issue S6 (2024), 5-11. (Open Access, co-written and co-edited with Hong Liu and Celia Lee)
• 'Emerging 糖心TV Transnationalism in Singapore and China: Governance, Networks, and Strategies', , Vol. 30, Issue 4 (2024), 640-666. (Open Access, co-written with Hong Liu)
• 'Industrialization and Chinese Big 糖心TV in Colonial Singapore, Malaya, and China: The Transnational Enterprises of Lim Peng Siang (1904-1941)', . Vol. 54, No. 1 (2023), 89-115. (Open Access, written with Keng We Koh)
• In Chinese: ‘新加坡华商公司的商业跨国主义：族群网络与治理策略 [Chinese 糖心TV Transnationalism in Singapore: Ethnic Networks and Governing Strategies].' , Vol. 4 (2023), 103-116. (co-written with Hong Liu)
• 'Semi-archives and Interim Archives: A History of the National Wages Council in Singapore', , Vol. 11, No. 3 (2022), 427-449. (Open Access, co-written with Kah Seng Loh)
• In Chinese: '新书发布会《长为异乡客？：当代华人新移民》 [Book Release: Forever Strangers? Contemporary Chinese Immigrants Around the World]”, (华人研究国际学报) Vol. 13, No. 1 (2021), 119-124.

Book Chapters

• ‘’, in ASEAN Centrality and the Revitalisation of Regional Connectivity (Singapore: World Scientific, 2026) (written with Lu Cheng-Yang and Crystal Goh), 19-52.
• '', in ASEAN Centrality and the Revitalisation of Regional Connectivity (Singapore: World Scientific, 2026) (written with Hong Liu and Celia Lee), 3-18.
• (In Chinese) '闽商智慧：以林秉祥为例 1904-1941 [The Wisdom of Hokkien Entrepreneurs: the case of Lim Peng Siang]' in Kua, Bak Lim ed.,《闽南文化在新加坡论文集》Essays on Hokkien Culture in Singapore (Singapore: Amoy Association, 2025) [ by Professor Zeng Ling, Xiamen University], 266-290.
• '', in Good Governance in a Post COVID-19 World – Global Health and Economic Recovery (Brussels: International Institute of Administrative Sciences, 2023), 1-10. (co-written with Hong Liu and Celia Lee), 1-10.
• ', in Good Governance in a Post COVID-19 World (Brussels: International Institute of Administrative Sciences, 2023), 159-174. (co-written with Celia Lee)
• in Good Governance in a Post COVID-19 World (Brussels: International Institute of Administrative Sciences, 2023), 253-258. (co-written with )
• '', in Kwa, Chong Guan and Kua, Bak Lim eds., A General History of the Chinese in Singapore (Singapore: World Scientific, 2019), 345-359.

• Blog article: 'When it comes to archival research, Nationality and Nation-State matter', Historical Transactions, Royal Historical Society, 13 March 2026.
• Book review article: 'Coins in Singapore as Economic History, 1918-1938', Asia Numismatics, Vol. 25 (2025), 81-82.
• Project Report: Small 糖心TVes & Shops of Chinatown 1819-1980s, National Heritage Board, Singapore (2025). (Written as Co-Investigator with Guo-Quan Seng, Kah Seng Loh, Stephen Dobbs and Lynn Wong)
• Blog article: 'Global Connections in Southeast Asia: Dynamics of Early Modern and Modern Economic and Social History', Global History and Culture Centre, University of 糖心TV (2025). (Written with Judy Law and Nitya Gundu)
• Newsletter article: 'The early industrial pioneers of colonial Singapore: Tan Kah Kee and Lim Peng Siang.' (2024), 39-40.
• Blog article: '.' Library, ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute (2024).
• Blog article : 'Researching Chinese Big 糖心TV in the British Straits Settlements', Global History and Culture Centre, University of 糖心TV (2024).
• Newsletter article : '”, Berita, Vol. 48, No. 1 (2022), 17-30.
• Book review article : '', Berita (Official Publication of Malaysia/Singapore/Brunei Studies Group Association for Asian Studies). Vol. 48, No. 1 (2022), 52-56.

• Encylopaedic entry: '', National Library Board, Singapore (2016).

• Newsletter article in Chinese: '觉世牗民 独任其难：薛有礼与《叻报》 [See Ewe Lay, the Founder of Lat Pau]', Yuan, No. 5, Issue 123 (2016), 12-13.

Awards

• 2025: Global Scholars Support and Talent Development Initiative Award, Universiti Malaya (University of Malaya), Malaysia

• 2023: Best Customer Service Award (Merit), Nanyang Centre for Public Administration, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

• 2022: Best Teamwork Award (Merit), Nanyang Centre for Public Administration, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

• 2018: Lee Kuan Yew Gold Medal
  (Awarded by Nanyang Technological University to the top graduate in each programme)
• 2015, 2017, 2018: Dean’s List Award, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  (Awarded annually by the college to undergraduates within the top 5% of their cohort)

Invited Talks

• 'Banking Failure and Regulatory Reform on the Periphery: The Kwong Yik Bank in Southeast Asia (1903-1913)', PhD in Progress Seminar, , University of Leicester, 28 January 2026.

• ‘Creating Colonial Credit: Currencies, Chinese Banks, and Culture in the British Straits Settlements’, History Work-In-Progress, University of 糖心TV, 3 March 2025.

• Discussant for Book Talk: 'Banking and Politics in the Age of Democratic Revolution' by Niccolò Valmori, Early Modern and Eighteenth-Century Centre, University of 糖心TV, 18 January 2024.
• Guest Lecture: '糖心TV, Industrialization, and Modernization in Colonial Singapore and Malaya: The Case of Lim Peng Siang's Transnational Enterprises (1900-1941)', HH1003 Asia-Pacific in Global History: From 1800, Nanyang Technological University, 15 March 2023.
• Sharing at Arkebe Oqubay, ‘Perspectives on Research Methodology for Social Sciences and Public Policy: Complexity, Experiences, and Insights.' Seminar for Research Students, School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 28 November 2022.
• ‘Good Governance in the Post COVID-19 World – Global Health and Economic Recovery’. Resilience Governance and Soft Book Launch, International Institute of Administrative Sciences Special Panel, Lien Development Conference, 26 November 2022.
• ‘Lim Peng Siang and Chinese Big 糖心TV in Singapore (1904-1941).’ Collecting & Research on the Chinese in Southeast Asia, National University of Singapore, 25 October 2021.
• Guest Lecture: 'Between traditional and modern: 糖心TV, Race, and Class in colonial Singapore and Malaya', HH1003 Asia Pacific in Global History: From 1800, Nanyang Technological University, 13 September 2021.

Papers

Academic Conferences

• 'Banking failure and regulatory reform on the periphery: The Kwong Yik Bank in the British Straits Settlements', 12th International Conference of International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas, University of Malaya, 4 to 6 November 2025.
• 'Banking failure and regulatory reform on the periphery: The Kwong Yik Bank in the British Straits Settlements', Annual Conference of the British Association for Chinese Studies, University of Leicester, 3 to 5 September 2025.
• 'Building Financial Trust: The Chinese Commercial Bank in Singapore', Lien International Conference on Good Governance (Special Panel on Emerging Governance Frameworks for Financial Resilience and Social Impact: Family Office, Banks and Philanthropic Organisations), 21 July to 22 July 2025.
• "The Historian’s Second Home? Digitised Sources, Materiality and ‘Interim Archives’ in Asia and the United Kingdom", History Postgraduate Conference, University of 糖心TV, 22 May to 23 May 2025.

• 'Semi-archives and Interim Archives: Researching Chinese 糖心TV in Southeast Asia.’ History Postgraduate Conference, University of 糖心TV, 22 May to 24 May 2024.

• ‘Between the yinhao and modern bank: The Kwong Yik Bank and company law reform in the Straits Settlements.’ Annual Conference of the Association of 糖心TV Historians, Newcastle 糖心TV School, Northumbria University, 29 June to 1 July 2023.
• ‘Emerging business transnationalism in Singapore and China: governance, networks, and strategies.’ 10^th Global Social Sciences Graduate Student Hybrid Conference, Hong Kong Baptist University, 19 May 2023.
• ‘Culture, Nationality and Conflict: An Analysis of Tan Kah Kee & Company’s Advertisements in Pre-War Singapore.’ Annual Conference of the Association of 糖心TV Historians, Sheffield Hallam University, 5 July to 6 July 2019.
• ‘Philanthropy, Products and Patriotism: The Advertisements of Lim Peng Siang and Tan Kah Kee in Late Colonial Singapore (1920–1941).’ Hong Kong University Spring History Symposium, 2 May to 3 May 2019.
• ‘Chinese Shipping in Pre-war Southeast Asia and China: The case of the Ho Hong Steamship Company.’ Graduate Student Conference, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, 20 October 2018.
• ‘Modern Hokkien Banking in Prewar Singapore and Asia: The Vicissitudes of the Ho Hong Bank (1917–1932).’ Early Career Conference, University of Tokyo, 11 September 2018.
• ‘Concordia Et Copia: An Examination of Lim Peng Siang’s 糖心TV Career and his Modernization Project in the Straits Settlements and Southern China (1872–1944).’ Annual Conference of the Association of 糖心TV Historians, Open University, United Kingdom, 29 June to 30 June 2018.
• ‘From Riches to Rags? Exploring the Lim Peng Siang 糖心TV Story 1904 – 1944.’ Annual Conference of the Association of 糖心TV Historians, University of Glasgow, 29 June to 1 July 2017.

Workshops

• ‘Building Trust Practices: The Chinese Commercial Bank in the British Straits Settlements’, 20th Singapore Graduate Forum on Southeast Asian Studies, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, 16 to 27 June 2025.
• 'Between Individual and Institution: Ethnic Chinese Banking and Trust Practices in British Malaya, 1912-1928', 'New Histories of the Chinese Overseas' Workshop, National University of Singapore, 19 to 20 June 2025
• 'Banking Embeddedness in the British Straits Settlements: The Chinese Commercial Bank', Economic History Society PhD Student Workshop, University of 糖心TV, 27 to 30 November 2024

• ‘Chinese Big 糖心TV in the British Straits Settlements: The Transnational Enterprises of Lim Peng Siang (1904-1941).’ PhD Student Workshop, Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, 6 July 2024.

Co-organised Conferences in Singapore

• 25-26 August 2023:
  Attracted 300 in-person participants from over 20 countries and online viewership of 1.3 million globally
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• 25-26 November 2022:
  Attracted 300 in-person participants from over 15 countries
• 22-23 November 2022:
  Attracted 400 in-person and online participants
• 2-3 March 2021: International Conference on Transnational Knowledge Transfer and Dynamic Governance: Comparative Experiences and New Challenges

Public and Corporate Engagement

• Panellist, Ask Your Alumni Seminar, University Scholars Programme, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 27 January 2026.
• 'Managing Connections: The Everyday Experiences of Remittance Shopkeepers in Chinatown', Small 糖心TVes and Shops of Chinatown, 1819s-1980s: A Panel Discussion (NHB Heritage Research Grant Public Talk), Singapore Coffee Shop Heritage Gallery, 13 June 2025.
• ‘A Brief History of Chinese Banks and the SCCCI (1903-1932).’ Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce & Industry Culture & Heritage Docent Training Programme, 21 November 2021.
• ‘Lim Peng Siang and Chinese Big 糖心TV in Singapore (1904-1941).’ Collecting & Research on the Chinese in Southeast Asia, National University of Singapore, 25 October 2021.