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Chin Yee Whah
Professor, Dr.

B.A. , Ph.D (UKM)

Dr. Chin is an Economic Sociologist interested in culture and Chinese entrepreneurship, family business, ethnic and business partnership, knowledge management and knowledge transfer in small and medium enterprises, Chinese business in East and Southeast Asia, industrial relations and research methodology. Chin received international grants from SEASREP, Toyota Foundation (1998) and CRISE, University of Oxford (2006). He was Visiting Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore (2007), Affiliate Fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies, Amsterdam (2007), Research Fellow at the Asia Research Centre, Copenhagen Business School (2010), recipient of Taiwan Fellowship (2019) and as Adjunct Professor at New Era University College since July 2020. He is a Council Member of the Academy of Professors Malaysia (2021-2023). Dr. Chin is currently a member of the editorial board for Southeast Asian Social Science Review (SEASSR), Kajian Malaysia (Journal of Malaysian Studies) and Malaysian Journal of Chinese Studies (MJCS).

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 Books

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Chin, Yee Whah. 2003. Budaya dan Keusahawanan Cina di Malaysia (Culture and Chinese Entrepreneurship in Malaysia). Bangi: National University of Malaysia Press. 262 pages.

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Chin, Yee Whah, Nor Hayati Sa'at, Sity Daud (Eds.). 2014. Sains Sosial dan Kajian Pembangunan: Kumpulan Rencana Penghormatan untuk Profesor Abdul Rahman Embong. [Social Science and Development Studies: Festschrift in Honour of Professor Abdul Rahman Embong]. Kajang: Malaysian Social Science Association & Institute of Malaysian and International Studies, National University of Malaysia, 409 pages. 

Professorial Lecture 2019

Keusahawanan Etnik Cina Malaysia: Kerajaan, Budaya dan Globalisasi [Malaysian Ethnic Chinese Entrepreneurship: The State, Culture and Globalization]. Penang: Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia. 60 pages.

Special Issues
Chin, Yee Whah, Benny Teh Cheng Guan and Norzarina Mohd. Zaharim (Guest Eds.). 2015. Beyond Borders: Connectivity and Changed Identities in East Asia. Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, 33 (2). Asia Research Centre, Copenhagen Business School, 96 pages.

Chin, Yee Whah and Jakobsen, M. (Guest Eds.). 2012. East and Southeast Asian SMEs in the Global Economy. Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, 30 (1). Asia Research Centre, Copenhagen Business School, 134 pages.

Abdul Rahman Embong and Chin Yee Whah (Guest Eds.). 2011. Community, Identity, Politics, and Healthcare in Malaysia. Kajian Malaysia: Journal of Malaysian Studies, 29, Suppl. 1. Penang: Universiti Sains Malaysia Press, 274 pages.


Journal Articles

Wattanatinnachot, Khemmanit and Chin Yee Whah. 2022. Rationales and Constraints of Managers When Hiring Foreign Workers in Singapore: A Study of the Manufacturing and Manufacturing Related Services Sectors. Southeast Asian Social Science Review, 7(1):45-74.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.29945/SEASSR.202205_7(1).0002

Chin, Yee Whah, Chung Tsair-Wang, Wee Hui-Ming. 2021. The State and University-Industry Collaboration: Deriving Insights from Taiwan’s Top Private University, Southeast Asian Social Science Review, 6(1): 28-58. DOI: http://doi.org/10.29945/SEASSR.202105_6(1).0002

Chin, Yee Whah. 2019. State Intervention, Globalization and the Evolution of Malaysian Banks’ Identities. Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, 37(1): 74-102.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22439/cjas.v37i1.5907 

Chin, Yee Whah and Lim Eee Shiang. Policies and Performance of SMEs in Malaysia. 2018. Journal of Southeast Asian Economies, 35(3): 470-487. 
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26545324 

Chin, Yee Whah, Lim Ka Tiek, Khoh Soo Beng and Shahrul Kamaruddin. 2018. Knowledge and Talent Development in the Electronics and Electrical (EE) Industry of Malaysia: State-Industry-University Collaboration. Asian Journal of Social Science, 46(6): 668-705. 
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/15685314-04606004 

Chin Yee Whah. 2017. The State and Malaysian Chinese Business: Past, Present and Future. Malaysian Journal of Chinese Studies, 6 (1&2): 1-30.

Chin, Yee Whah and Benny Teh Cheng Guan. 2017. Malaysia’s Protracted Affirmative Action Policy and the Evolving Bumiputera Commercial and Industrial Community. SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, 32(2): 336-73.
DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.1355/sj32-2d

Chin, Yee Whah. 2015. State Intervention in Business and Malaysian Chinese Entrepreneurship. Malaysian Journal of Chinese Studies, 4(2): 1-26.

Chin, Yee Whah. 2015. Introduction: Dynamics of the Social Construction of East Asia. Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, 33(2): 5-11.

Chin, Yee Whah. 2012. The Evolution of Malaysia’s Development Strategies and the Global Economy: Responses from SMEs and Civil Societies. Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies , 30 (1): 11-35.

Chin, Yee Whah and Lim Ka Tiek. 2012. Networking and Knowledge Transfer in Malaysian SMEs through University–Industry Engagement and the State. Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies , 30 (1): 96-116.

Chin, Yee Whah and Lee Yok Fee. 2012. Chambers of Commerce and Chinese Business Enterprise in Malaysia. Malaysian Journal of Chinese Studies, 1(1), 1–17.

Chin, Yee Whah. 2011. Towards Inter-ethnic Business Development and National Unity in Malaysia. Kajian Malaysia: Journal of Malaysian Studies, 29, Suppl. 1: 141-174.

Abdul Rahman Embong and Chin Yee Whah. 2011. Introduction: Community, Identity, Politics and Healthcare in Malaysia. Kajian Malaysia: Journal of Malaysian Studies, 29, Suppl. 1: 1-10.

Chin, Yee Whah. 2008. The Evolution of Malaysian Chinese Entrepreneurship: From British Colonial Rule to Post New Economic Policy. Journal of Chinese Overseas, 4(2): 203-237.

Chin, Yee Whah. 2008. Knowledge Management: Business Development in Chinese-Bumiputera Partnerships in Malaysia. Journal of Asian Business, 22(2)/22(3)/23(1): 189-212.

Chin, Yee Whah. 2006. Penang Small and Medium Enterprises: Struggles, Accommodation and New Challenges. Akademika: Journal of the Social Sciences and Humanities, 69 July: 17-35.

Gomez, E.T. and Chin Yee Whah. 2006. Malaixiya Qiye Zai Zhongguo De Kuaguo Huodong, Shangye Wangluo He Qiye Fazhan (Xia) (Malaysia in China: Transnationalism, Business Networks and Enterprise Development, Part 2).Southeast Asian Studies, 161(1): 17-25.

Gomez, E.T. and Chin Yee Whah. 2005. Malaixiya Qiye Zai Zhongguo De Kuaguo Huodong, Shangye Wangluo He Qiye Fazhan (Shang) (Malaysia in China: Transnationalism, Business Networks and Enterprise Development, Part 1).Southeast Asian Studies, 160(4): 43-55.

Chin, Yee Whah. 2003. The ‘Bumiputera Policy’: Views from the Chinese Business Community. Kajian Malaysia: Journal of Malaysian Studies, 21, Suppl. 1&2: 363-377.

Chin, Yee Whah. 2003. The 1997 Financial Crisis and Local Responses: Small and Medium Enterprises in Malaysia. Journal of Malaysian Chinese Studies, 6: 101-119.

Chin, Yee Whah. 2002. Beberapa Pendekatan dan Tema dalam Kajian Usahawan dan Keusahawanan Cina (Approaches and Themes in the Studies of Chinese Entrepreneurships). Akademika: Journal of the Social Sciences and Humanities, 60 Januari: 41-66.

Chin, Yee Whah. 2001. Transformasi Budaya Niaga Usahawan Cina di Semenanjung Malaysia (The Transformation of Chinese Business Culture in Peninsular Malaysia). Kajian Malaysia: Journal of Malaysian Studies, 19(1): 60-101.

Chin, Yee Whah. 2000. Perkembangan Kapitalisme di Malaysia (The Development of Malaysian Capitalism). Akademika: Journal of the Social Sciences and Humanities, 57 Julai: 107-114.

Chin, Yee Whah. 1998. Usahawan Cina dalam Industri Kecil dan Sederhana di Semenanjung Malaysia: Modenisasi dalam Perniagaan Keluarga Cina. (Chinese Entrepreneurs in the Small and Medium Industries in Peninsular Malaysia: Modernization of the Family Firms). Akademika: Journal of the Social Sciences and Humanities, 53 Julai: 9-32.


Book Chapters

Chin, Yee Whah. 2018. Chinese Female Migrant Peddlers in Sibu, East Malaysia. In Samuel C.Y. Ku and Herlin Chien.Southeast Asia: Beyond Borders and Boundaries, pp. 27-49. Kaohsiung, Taiwan: Wenzao University Press. ISBN: 9789866585494.

Chin, Yee Whah. 2016. Shēn Chǔyú Quánqiú Jīngjì Zhōng de Mǎláixīyà Zhōng Xiǎoxíng Gǐyè: Guójiā Yǔ Jīngjì (Malaysian SMEs and the State in the Global Economy). In Lean Hooi Hooi (ed.). Contemporary Malaysia: Economy and Finance, pp. 187-2010. Kuala Lumpur: Centre for Malaysian Chinese Studies.

Chin, Yee Whah, Nor Hayati Sa'at, & Sity Daud (Eds.). 2014. Pendahuluan (Introduction). In Chin Yee Whah, Nor Hayati Sa'at & Sity Daud (Eds.). Sains Sosial dan Kajian Pembangunan: Kumpulan Rencana Penghormatan untuk Profesor Abdul Rahman Embong (Social Science and Development Studies: Festschrift in Honour of Professor Abdul Rahman Embong), pp.3-16. Kajang: Malaysian Social Science Association (MSSA) & Institute of Malaysian and International Studies (IKMAS), National University of Malaysia (UKM).

Nor Hayati Sa'at and Chin Yee Whah. 2014. Kisah Hidup dan Zaman Seorang Sarjana Sains Sosial Malaysia yang Komited: Interviu dengan Profesor Abdul Rahman Embong (Life Story and Times of a Committed Malaysian Social Science Scholar: Interview with Professor Abdul Rahman Embong). In Chin Yee Whah, Nor Hayati Sa'at & Sity Daud (Eds.). Sains Sosial dan Kajian Pembangunan: Kumpulan Rencana Penghormatan untuk Profesor Abdul Rahman Embong, pp.19-33. Kajang: MSSA & IKMAS, UKM.

Chin, Yee Whah. 2014. Perniagaan Cina di Malaysia: Etnisiti, Pengurusan Pengetahuan dan Pembangunan Negara (Chinese Business in Malaysia: Ethnicity, Knowledge Management and Nation Building). In Chin Yee Whah, Nor Hayati Sa'at, & Sity Daud (Eds.). Sains Sosial dan Kajian Pembangunan: Kumpulan Rencana Penghormatan untuk Profesor Abdul Rahman Embong, pp.56-92. Kajang: MSSA & IKMAS, UKM.

Chin, Yee Whah. 2013. Malaysian Chinese Business: Ethnicity and Knowledge Management. In Menkhoff, T., Evers, H-D., Chay Yew Wah and Hoon Chang Yau (eds.). Catalyst for Change: Chinese Business in Asia, pp.73-106. Singapore: World Scientific.

Chin, Yee Whah. 2010. Sino-Bumiputera Business Partnership in Malaysia: Promoting Inter-ethnic Relations at Mid Level. In Francis Loh Kok Wah (ed.). Building Bridges, Crossing Boundaries: Everyday Forms of Inter-Ethnic Peace Building in Malaysia, pp. 199-222 . Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Social Science Association, Jakarta: The Ford Foundation.

Chin, Yee Whah. 2009.Malaixiya huaren de shangye huodong―kaita haiwai shichang yu jieshou tiaozhan (Malaysian Chinese Businesses: Pioneering Foreign Markets and Meeting Challenges). In Voon Phin Keong (ed.). Qin Jian Xing Bang: Malaysia Hua Ren De Gong Xian, pp.329-365. Kuala Lumpur: Centre for Malaysian Chinese Studies.

Chin, Yee Whah. 2007. Chinese Economic Activities in the Emerging Malaysian Nation-state: Changing with the Time. In Voon Phin Keong (ed.). Malaysian Chinese and Nation-Building: Before Merdeka and Fifty Years After, pp. 269-306. Kuala Lumpur: Centre for Malaysian Chinese Studies.

Chin, Yee Whah. 2007. Chinese-Bumiputera Partnership in Technology-based Industries in Post-NEP and Post-NDP Malaysia. In Leo Suryadinata (ed.). Chinese Diaspora Since Admiral Zheng He With Special Reference to Maritime Asia, pp. 205-224. Singapore: Chinese Heritage Centre and HuayiNet.

Chin, Yee Whah. 2007. The ‘Made in China’ Label: Imported Goods and the Challenge to Penang Manufacturers. In Voon, Phin Keong (ed.). China: Emerging Relations and Development, pp. 65-84. Kuala Lumpur: Centre for Malaysian Chinese Studies.

Gomez, E.T. and Chin, Yee Whah. 2007. Contextualizing the Problem: Promoting Malaysian Investments in China. In Voon, Phin Keong (ed.). China: Emerging Relations and Development, pp. 41-63. Kuala Lumpur: Centre for Malaysian Chinese Studies.

Salfarina Abdul Gapor, Chin Yee Whah, Noreha Haji Hashim, Nor Hafizah Selamat, Mohamad Zaini Abu Bakar. 2006. Tahap Perpaduan di Sungai Rambai dan Pekan Nibong Tebal: Analisis Bandingan Mikro antara Lokasi (Level of Unity in Sungai Rambai and Pekan Nibong Tebal: A Micro Comparative Analysis). In Zahara Hassan at el (eds.). Readings on Ethnic Relations in a Multicultural Society: Perspectives and Research on National Unity and Integration, pp. 166-179. Seri Kembangan: Universiti Putra Malaysia Press.

Chin, Yee Whah. 2005. Small and Medium Enterprises in Malaysia: New Challenges and Future Research. In Voon Phin Keong (ed.). Riding the Winds and Waves, Bridging the Deep Blue Seas, pp.144-148. Kuala Lumpur: Centre for Malaysian Chinese Studies.

Chin, Yee Whah. 2004. Ethnicity and the Transformation of the Ali-Baba Partnership in the Chinese Business Culture in Malaysia. In Cheah Boon Kheng (ed.). The Challenge of Ethnicity: Building a Nation in Malaysia, pp. 54-88. Singapore: Marshall Cavendish International.

Book Reviews

2022. “China in Malaysia: State-Business Relations and the New Order of Investment Flows” by Edmund Terence Gomez, Siew Yean Tham, Ran Li and Kee Cheok Cheong. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 116 pp., Kajian Malaysia, 40(1): 247–249.

2018. Robert Kuok: A Memoir with Andrew Tanzer, 2017. Singapore: Landmark Book, 376 pp., Southeast Asian Social Science Review, 3(2): 196-201.

2015. "Ethnic Chinese Entrepreneurship in Malaysia: On Contextualisation in International Business Studies" by Michael Jakobsen. London and New York: Routledge, 2015. 147pp., Journal of Southeast Asian Economies, 32(3) December : 416-418.

2009. “The Overseas Chinese of South East Asia: History, Culture, Business” by Ian Rae and Morgen Witzel. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. vi + 171pp., Bridagen tot de taal-, Land-en Volkenkunde (BKI) (Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia and Oceania), 165 November : 139-140.

2008. “Networks, Trust and Social Capital: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations from Europe” edited by Sokraits M. Koniordos. Hants: Ashgate, 2005. 294pp., Comparative Sociology, 7 (4) 2008: 491-493.

2005. “Chinese Business in the Making of a Malay State, 1882-1941, Kedah and Penang” by Wu Xiao An. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003 in Journal of Chinese Overseas Vol.1, No. 2 November: 296-298.

Other Publications (Selected)

Tan Tai Wai, Chin Yee Whah, Lai Yew Wah and Suresh Narayanan. 2019. “The Evolution of Rubber Merchants in Malaysia with Special Focus on North Malaya”. In Centenary Celebration of The Rubber Trade Association of Penang 1919-2019. Pp. 16-76. Penang: The Rubber Trade Association of Penang. ISBN 9789671750506.  

Chin, Yee Whah and Lim Ee Shiang. 2018. SME Policies and Performance in Malaysia. ISEAS Economics Working Paper No. 3 July, ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore.

Chin, Yee Whah and Benny Teh Cheng Guan. 2015. Malaysia’s Protracted Affirmative Action Policy and the Evolving Bumiputera Commercial and Industrial Community. ISEAS Economics Working Paper No. 3 December, ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore.

Chin, Yee Whah. 2015. Changes of Ownership and Identities of Malaysian Banks: Ethnicity, State and Globalization. Copenhagen Discussion Papers No. 51 August, Asia Research Centre, Copenhagen Busines School. 

Chin, Yee Whah. 2010. Towards Inter-ethnic Business Development and National Unity in Malaysia. CRISE Working Paper No. 73, January. UK: Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford.

Chin, Yee Whah. 2007. Malaysian Chinese Business Community’s Response to the Economic Rise of China. East Asian Institute Background Brief No. 327. National University of Singapore.

Chin, Yee Whah. 2007. From Tin to Ali Baba’s Gold: The Evolution of Chinese Entrepreneurship in Malaysia. IIAS Newsletter #45, Autum, p.8. Amsterdam: International Institute for Asian Studies.

Chin, Yee Whah. 2004. The State and Chinese Entrepreneurs in Southeast Asia. NIASnytt, No 3 September: 14-16. Denmark: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies.

Chin, Yee Whah. 2003. Bin zhou de zhong xiaoxing qiye (Small and Medium Enterprises in Penang). In Centennial Magazine of Penang Chinese Chamber of Commerce, pp.292-306. Penang: Penang Chinese Chamber of Commerce.


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 Courses taught

Undergraduate Courses

SAW402 Anthropology and Sociology Seminar II (Capitalism in East and Southeast Asia), 2015 
SAU218E Economic Sociology (2008 to present)
SAU217 Industrial Relations (2005 to present)
SAW214 Research Techniques and Social Analysis (2002 to 2005)
SEA303 Societies and Culture of the Nusantara (2007)
SAW203 Human Behavioural Theories and Society (2007, with Ong Beng Kok)
SKW122 Research Methods (2001 to 2003, with Chan Lean Heng; 2004 to 2005 with Salfarina Abdul
Gapor; 2010, with K. Premalatha)
SKW321 Philosophy of Social Sciences (2019 to present, with Nur Hafeeza Ahmad Pazil)

 

Micro Credentials

Perspektif Hubungan Industri (2022-) https://learning4life.usm.my/courses/perspektif-hubungan-industri
Aktor Hubungan Industri (2022-) https://learning4life.usm.my/courses/aktor-hubungan-industri
Proses Hubungan Industri (2022-) https://learning4life.usm.my/courses/proses-hubungan-industri
Amalan Hubungan Industri (2022-) https://learning4life.usm.my/courses/amalan-hubungan-industri

 

 Graduate Courses

SPA 502 Research Methods (2002 to 2012)
SAA554 Cultures and Societies in Asia: Selected Themes (2010 to 2013 with Azrina Husin and Nor
Hafizah Selamat)

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 (Title; Granting agency: Collaborators; Term; Status)

Refine A SME Assist Model to Elevate the Performance of Bumiputera SMEs: A Study in the Northern Peninsular; FRGS; Principal Researcher, with Nor Malina Binti Malek and Lim Ee Shiang; 1st November 2020 – 30 April 2023; current.

Penilaian Semula Petunjuk Daya Tahan Peniaga Runcit di Bandar Menyerap Tekanan Kemunculan Pasaraya Besar di Malaysia; FRGS; Co-researcher, with Mohamad shaharudin Bin samsurijan, Premalatha A/P Karupiah and Radin Firdaus Bin Radin Badaruddin; 1st November 2020 – 30 April 2023; current.

Chinese New Migrant Peddlers in Sibu, Sarawak: New Competition, Identities and Business Networks; USM Short-term Research Grant; Principal Researcher; October 2014 - September 2016; Completed.

Innovative Engineering Solution for System and Process; Knowledge Transfer Programme, Ministry of Higher Education; (with Shahrul Kamaruddin, Rahim Othman, and Elmy Abu Bakar); August 2011-July 2013; Completed.

Adopting Lean Manufacturing Tools and Techniques for Continuous Improvement in the Malaysian Manufacturing Industries; Knowledge Transfer Programme, Ministry of Higher Education; (with Ishak Abd Azid, Abdul Rahim Othman and Chin Jeng Feng); June 2011-May 2013; Completed.

Work and Entrepreneurship: A Sociological Study in Malaysia; USM Research University Grant; Principal Researcher (with Ong Beng Kok); 2007-2010; Completed.

Economic Liberalization: Towards Inter-ethnic Business Development and National Unity in Malaysia; CRISE, University of Oxford; 2006-2007; Principal Researcher; Completed.

Bumiputera-Chinese partnership in technology-based industries in Post NEP and NDP Malaysia; USM Short-term Research Grant; Principal Researcher; 2003-2005; Completed.

Interaction of culture and entrepreneurship; Southeast Asian Studies Regional Exchange Program, SEASREP; Principal Researcher; 1998-1999; Completed.


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PhD

Feng Yikun. Demography, Social Networks, Culture and Challenges of the Elderly Labor in China's Labor Market. Main Supervisor. Active.

Graig Adam Loyd. An Assessment Tool for Measuring Ethnic and Religious Identity in Malaysia: The Ethnic Religious Identity Scale - Malaysia (ERIS-M). Main Supervisor. Active.

Sun Binbin. Research on the Participation of Contemporary Chinese Social Organizations in Poverty Alleviation. Main Supervisor. Active.

Tan Hong. The Effects of Traditional Male Ideology in Chinese Family Violence. Co-supervisor. Active.

Dr. Wattanatinnachot Khemmanit. Managers’ Opinions and Responses to Singapore’s Foreign Labour Policy: A Study of the Manufacturing and Manufacturing Related Services Sectors. Main Supervisor. Completed, January 2020.

Dr. Koh Ngee Loke. Socioeconomic Life and Work Behaviour of Migrant Contingent Workers: A Study at a Multinational Company in Penang, Malaysia. Main supervisor. Completed, May 2016.

Master’s

Adamu Dauda Garba. Socio-Economic Impact of Mambilla Hydroelectric Power on Gembu, Sardauna Local Government Area of Taraba State, Nigeria. Main supervisor. Active

Latham Iii John Wheeler. Narrative Identity Among Chinese Christians in Penang. Main Supervisor. Active.

Morgan Sean Casey. Virtue and Vice in Malaysian Chinese Societies. Main Supervisor. Active.

Nur Amalia Amirah Binti Mohd Fadli. Budaya dan Keusahawanan Bumiputera: Satu Kajian dalam Sektor Pengeluaran di Kedah. Main Supervisor. Active.

Yap Chee Yeong. The Impacts of Industrialization on Work Orientation in Malaysian Society, Co-supervisor. Completed August 2021.

Beh May Ting. Coffee Consumption Culture in Asian Urban Cities: Comparing the Rise of Interest in Specialty Coffees, Indies Cafe and Baristas in Penang, Bangkok and Tokyo. Main Supervisor. Masters in International Studies [Asian Studies]. Completed, June 2014.  

Ng Siew Yen. Social Lifestyle and Experience of Online Consumerism among Young Adults in Kuala Lumpur. Main Supervisor. M.Phil. Completed, March 2014.

Adriane Feldmann. Han Jiang Ancestral Temple: A Preservation of the Teochew Identity. Faculty of the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. M.Phil. Field work supervisor. Completed, September 2012.

Omar Bin Yusoff. ‘Jawi Peranakan’ Community in Penang: Cultural Issues and Formation of a Plural Society in Malaysia. Main supervisor. Completed, May 2004.


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