Ng Khai Boon


khaiboon.ng@newera.edu.my

Academic Qualification:
B.A. (Hons) (University of Malaya) 2015
MPhil. (Fudan University) 2018
PhD. Candidate (Nanyang Technological University) 2019-now

PROFESSIONAL FIELD
RESEARCH INTERESTS
  • Confucianism
  • Ethics
  • Political Philosophy
WORKING EXPERIENCE
  • Senior Lecturer (2023-now), New Era University College.
  • Teaching Assistant (2019-2021), Nanyang Technological University. (courses include Moral Philosophy, Ethics and Moral Reasoning, Introduction to Environmental Humanities, Ethics and Civics in Multicultural World)
  • Research Assistant (2018-2019), Malaysian Chinese Research Centre, University of Malaya.
  • Research Assistant (2013-2015), Institute of China Studies, University of Malaya.
PUBLICATIONS AND ACTIVITIES
THESES
  • Ng, K.B. (2018). A Study of Economic Ethics in Of the Treatise on Food and Money and Confucianism. (in Chinese) MPhil Thesis, Fudan University, Shanghai.
  • Ng, K.B. (2014). The Destination of Moral Subjectivity: A Comparison of Cheng Hao and Lu Jiuyuan. (in Chinese) BA Thesis, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur.
REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
  • Ng, K.B. (2019). Motive Consequentialism: A Perspective on Mengzi’s Viewpoints of Righteousness and Profit. (in Chinese) Journal of Han Chiang, 1(1), 209-222.
  • Ng, K.B. (2018). Revisiting Mengzi and Xunzi with Aristotle’s “Potentiality-Actuality” as the Analytic Framework. Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture, 6(2), 16-26.
CONFERENCES
  • “Motivating to care: ethical consideration towards collective prosperity”, Australasian Postgraduate Philosophy Conference 2022, November 26-27, 2022.
BOOK CHAPTERS
  • Ng, K.B. (2019). Choo Chee Keong in Ling, Tek Soon & Kim Teck. The Malaysia Henghua Personalities 馬來西亞興化群賢錄(pp. 136-141). Kuala Lumpur: The Federation of Heng Ann Malaysia.
  • Ng, K.B. (2019). Lau Ban Tin in Ling, Tek Soon & Kim Teck. The Malaysia Henghua Personalities 馬來西亞興化群賢錄(pp. 118-123). Kuala Lumpur: The Federation of Heng Ann Malaysia.
  • Ng, K.B. (2019). Lim Peng Jin in Ling, Tek Soon & Kim Teck. The Malaysia Henghua Personalities 馬來西亞興化群賢錄(pp. 318-323). Kuala Lumpur: The Federation of Heng Ann Malaysia.
  • Ng, K.B. (2019). Ong Kian Ming in Ling, Tek Soon & Kim Teck. The Malaysia Henghua Personalities 馬來西亞興化群賢錄(pp. 82-87). Kuala Lumpur: The Federation of Heng Ann Malaysia.
  • Ng, K.B. (2019). Steven Yow Thin Chin in Ling, Tek Soon & Kim Teck. The Malaysia Henghua Personalities 馬來西亞興化群賢錄(pp. 370-375). Kuala Lumpur: The Federation of Heng Ann Malaysia.
  • Ng, K.B. (2019). Yeo Ah Tee in Ling, Tek Soon & Kim Teck. The Malaysia Henghua Personalities 馬來西亞興化群賢錄(pp. 364-369). Kuala Lumpur: The Federation of Heng Ann Malaysia.
OTHER ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
AWARDS
  • Granted NTU research scholarship. (2019-2023)
  • Granted full scholarship from the Chinese Government to pursue Master Degree. (2015-2018)
  • Granted full scholarship from the Public Service Department of Malaysia to pursue Bachelor Degree. (2012-2015)

Orcid link:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0170-0581

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