Dr Felicia Yap is an Associate of the LSE Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre.
Felicia Yap holds degrees from the University of Cambridge (PhD and M.Phil.) and Imperial CollegeLondon (B.Sc.). She was previously a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College Cambridge, a Scouloudi Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research in London and a Fellow in International History at the London School of Economics. A current affiliate of the Centre of South Asian Studies in Cambridge, Dr Yap has written widely for publications such as The Economist, Asia!, Asian Geographic and the Business Times.
Dr Yap’s research centres on the Japanese occupation of Southeast and East Asia during the Second World War. The focus of her work is primarily on the wartime experiences of Japanese-held POWs and civilians in occupied Malaya, Singapore, Borneo and Hong Kong. Her other research interests include memories of conflict and captivity, the effects of the war on European and Asian women, as well as the evolution of Eurasian, Jewish and Portuguese communities in colonial Asia. She has also begun a new comparative project on collaboration, resistance and espionage in the wartime territory of Macao, which permitted by the Japanese to retain its neutrality during this turbulent period.
Yap, Felicia (2017) At the Edge of Empire: Eurasians, Portuguese, and Baghdadi Jewish Communities in British Hong Kong. In: Luk, G. (ed.) From a British to a Chinese Colony: Hong Kong in the Past and Today. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California.
Yap, Felicia (2016) International Laws of War and Civilian Internees of the Japanese in British Asia, War in History.
Yap, Felicia (2016) Between Silence and Narration: European and Asian Women on War Brutalities in Japanese-Occupied Territories. In: Altinay, A.G. and Peto, A. (eds.) Gendered Wars, Gendered Memories: Feminist Conversations on War, Genocide and Political Violence. Ashgate.
Yap, Felicia (2016) Japanese Propaganda in Occupied British Asia during the Second World War. In: Jackson, A. (ed.) An Imperial World at War. Ashgate.
Yap, Felicia (2014) Asian and Eurasian Women’s Resistance Against the Japanese (1942-1945). Jaarboek voor Vrouwengeschiedenis (Yearbook of Women's History): Under Fire: Women and World War II, 34, pp.69-80.
Yap, Felicia (2014) A ‘New Angle of Vision’: British Imperial Reappraisal of Hong Kong during the Second World War. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 42(1), pp.86-113.
Yap, Felicia (2015) Allied Refugees and Captives on the Move in Japanese-Occupied East Asia. In: People & Things on the Move: Migration and Material Culture Conference. Chicago: University of Chicago’s Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society.
Yap, Felicia (2014) Intrigue on Neutral Ground: Macao during the Second World War. In: 1944:
Seventy Years On Conference. Sandhurst: Royal Military Academy.
Yap, Felicia (2013) The Significance and Impact of Japanese Propaganda in Occupied British Asia. In: British Empire At War Research Group Conference. Oxford: Kellogg College.
Yap, Felicia (2013) Addiction in Colonial Malaya and Singapore during the Early 20th Century. In: Alcohol and Drugs History Society Conference. London: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Yap, Felicia (2013) Representations of Macau during the Second World War. In: International Conference on Macau Narratives. Lisbon.