• Assistant Professor at New Era University College (2023-Current)
• Senior Lecturer at Vice Chancellor’s Office, New Era University College (2021- )
• Seri Omega International School, Johor Bahru, English Language, History, and Geography (IGCSE) Teacher (2017-2018)
• Assistant Head of Academic Affairs cum Head of English Language Department (Senior Section), Kluang Chong Hwa High School (2016 – 2017) (2020)
• Undergraduate Subject Tutor and Guest Lecturer, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne Semester 2, 2015
• Undergraduate Subject Tutor, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, Semester 2, 2014
• Undergraduate Subject Tutor and Guest Lecturer, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, Semester 1, 2013
• Head of english language department (Senior Section), Kluang Chong Hwa High School (2012 – 2013)

• Editor, Malaysian Journal of Chinese Studies (MJCS), 2021-Present
• Executive Committee Member, Malaysia and Singapore Society of Australia (MASSA), 2020-Present
• Member, Australian & New Zealand History of Education Society (ANZHES) (2016-)
• Junior Editor, Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (JMBRAS) (2015-)
• Postgraduate Representative, Malaysia and Singapore Society of Australia (MASSA), (2014-)
• Board Member, Melbourne Historical Journal (2013-2014)

“Chinese Women Guerrillas in the Malayan Communist Insurgency”. (Published in Translocal Chinese, October 2022). Volume: 16 (2022), Issue 2 (Oct 2022). Pages: 202 – 227. DOI:10.1163/24522015-16020005. ISSN: 2452-2015 (Online). ISSN: 2452-2007 (Print). [SCOPUS]

“Jungle Lives: Malaya’s Counter-Insurgency War Through the Eyes of the Retired Malayan Communists”. (Published in MJCS, December 2021). Volume: 10 (2021), Number 2. Pages: 33 – 48. DOI:10.6993/MJCS. ISSN: 2716-6627 (Online). ISSN: 2232-1713 (Print). [MyJurnal]

Upcoming Articles

“Acts of Commemoration: How Malayan Communist Retirees Remembers the Past”. (Completed, revising)

“Black Boxes in the Fog: The History and Historiography of the Malayan Emergency”. (In Progress)

“Comparisons in History Education between Malaysia and Singapore During the Cold War”. (In Progress)

Stories from Piyamit Cadres: Recollections of Life in the Jungles of Betong (Kajang: New Era University College Press, 2023) (Forthcoming)

“When the Reds Go Marching In,” in David P. Chandler, Robert Cribb, and Li Narangoa (eds.), End of Empire: 100 Days in 1945 that Changed Asia and the World (Copenhagen: NIAS 2016)

• “Nostalgia and Memory: Remembering the Malayan Communist Revolution in the Online Age,” in Catherine Gomes (ed.), The Asia Pacific in the Age of Transnational Mobility: The Search for Community and Identity on and through Social Media (New York: Anthem, 2016)
• “When the Reds Go Marching In,” in David P. Chandler, Robert Cribb, and Li Narangoa (eds.), End of Empire: 100 Days in 1945 that Changed Asia and the World (Copenhagen: NIAS 2016)

• Decolonizing the History Curriculum in Malaysia and Singapore by Kevin Blackburn and ZongLun Wu (London and New York: Routledge 2019). Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society Vol.94 Part 1 (June 2021): 232-234.
• Penang Chinese Commerce in the 19th Century: The Rise and Fall of the Big Five by Yee-Tuan Wong (Singapore: ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute 2015). Malayan Journal of Chinese Studies Vol.10 Part 2 (December 2021): 99-103.

• The Malaysian Communist Insurgency: Beyond A Conflict of Resistance, Malaysia and Singapore Society of Australia (MASSA) Symposium 2023, 7 – 8 July 2023
• The Acts of Commemoration by the Retired Malayan Communists, Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asia Lecture Series (NEUC), 29 June 2022
• Malay Responses to Marxism, 5th Workshop of the Reconceptualizing the Cold War: On-the-ground Experience in Asia (NUS), 14 – 26 February 2022
• The Act of Commemoration by the Retired Malayan Communists, 4th Workshop of the Reconceptualizing the Cold War: On-the-ground Experience in Asia (NUS), 19 – 31 July 2021
• Silenced Revolution: The Malayan Communist Struggle in Retrospect, NEUC Staff Seminar (NEUC), 21 April 2021
• Revisiting the Education Policy during the British Malaya Era, Australia and New Zealand History of Education Society (ANZHES) Mid-Year Symposium, Melbourne, 8 - 9 July 2016
• Jungle Lives: Malaya as Depicted in Malayan Communist Memoirs Association for Asian Studies Conference (AAS), Chicago, IL, USA, 26 - 19 March 2015
• Readings on the Malayan Emergency, New Research in Southeast Asian Studies Workshop, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 22 Aug 2014

• Book Project Funding, 2022
• Ronald Provencher Travel Grant, 2015
• Research and Graduate Studies Scheme (RAGS), 2014
• Graduate Research in Arts Travel Scheme (GRATS), 2014
• Research Support Fund (RSF) and Competitive Additional Fund (CAF), 2014
• Melbourne International Fee Remission Scholarship (MIFRS) and Melbourne International Research Scholarship (MIRS), 2013
• NUS Research Scholarship and FASS Promising Graduate Scholar Award, 2013