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Huang Jianli (simplified Chinese: 黄坚立; traditional Chinese: 黃堅立) (born January 1956) is Associate Professor of Chinese History at the National University of Singapore where he is also the Deputy Director of Asia Research Institute. In addition, Huang is a Research Associate at the East Asian Institute and an Invited Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Chinese Language and Culture, Nanyang Technological University. Huang was the 2011 Lee Kong Chian NUS-Stanford Distinguished Fellow on Southeast Asia.
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Biography
Huang was born in 1956 in Singapore as the eldest child in a third-generation migrant family. He completed his BA (Hons) in History and Economics in the National University of Singapore in 1981. Huang wrote his honours thesis on the 1911 Revolution under the supervision of the late Professor Hsiao Ch'i-Ch'ing. Subsequently, he received a Commonwealth Scholarship to pursue his PhD in Modern Chinese History at the Australian National University. He completed his dissertation entitled "Management of Student Political Activism in China: The Guomindang Policy, 1927–1945" under the supervision of Professor Wang Gungwu. After completing his doctoral studies in 1987, he returned to teach at the National University of Singapore (NUS). At NUS, he has served as the Deputy Head of the Department of History (2001–2004), Academic Convenor of the China Studies Minor Programme (2005–2008) and Chair of the History Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (2007–2009). He also serves in the editorial board of China: An International Journal, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies and International Journal of Diasporic Chinese Studies. Huang becomes the Deputy Director of NUS's Asia Research Institute in January 2013.
Research
Huang's research interests include party policies on student politics in China, 1920s–1940s; local self-government in wartime Chongqing, 1937–1945; postwar Singapore Chinese community; Sino-Southeast Asia interactions; and Chinese Overseas diaspora studies. He is currently writing a book on the life and times of Lee Kong Chian.
Publications
Books
Journal Articles
“Umbilical Ties: The Framing of the Overseas Chinese as the Mother of the Revolution.” Frontiers of History in China 6, 2 (Jun 2011): 183–228.
Reprint as a chapter-in-book in Sun Yan-sen, Nanyang and the 1911 Revolution, edited by Lee Lai To and Lee Hock Guan (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2011), 75–129.Revised Chinese version published as “Overseas Chinese as the Mother of Revolution: The Origins and Discourse of the Epithet 华侨为革命之母：赞誉之来历与叙述,” in International Journal of Diasporic Chinese Studies 华人研究 国际学报, 3,2 (Feb 2011): 21–56.