Mr Jin Li Lim

About

Jin submitted his PhD thesis in September 2016. His thesis, ‘New China and its Qiaowu: The Political Economy of Overseas Chinese policy in the People’s Republic of China, 1949–1959’, was supervised by Professor Odd Arne Westad, and it analyses the policies of the Chinese Communist government towards the diasporic Chinese in the first decade of the PRC. Jin has also published research on modern Singapore history, and is also interested in using fashion history as a paradigm for understanding modern China.

Teaching

Mr Lim teaches the following course at undergraduate level:

HY113 - From Empire to Independence: The Extra-European World in the Twentieth Century

Publications

• ‘New Research on Tan Kah Kee: The Departure of 1950, and the ‘Return’ of 1955’, Journal of Chinese Overseas (forthcoming 2017)
• “‘The weakness and soft-headedness of my friends’ — The People’s Action Party, the British Labour Government and Party, and the Socialist International, 1976”, Labour History Review, 80:1 (2015), pp. 63-90.
• “‘Six little maids from school are we’ — The curious case of the six runaway girls of the S.S. Tjiwangi, and a closer look at the motivations of Overseas Chinese students in Malaya and Singapore who chose to seek higher education in the People’s Republic of China, 1951”, The Quarterly Journal of Chinese Studies, 2:2 (2013), pp. 1-20.
• ‘Can the Subadar speak? — The Malay States Guides in November–December 1914’, Historia Militar Revista Digital (2011)

Papers

• “‘To everything — turn, turn, turn’: Three moments in Overseas Chinese policy in the early Great Leap Forward, 1957–1959”, at the 2016 GWU-UCSB-LSE Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War, 21–24 April 2016, George Washington University, Washington, DC.
• ‘Closer to the truth: Tan Kah Kee and Singapore Special Branch, 1950 and 1955’, at the 6th International Conference of Institutes and Libraries for Chinese Overseas Studies: ‘Overseas Chinese in Contemporary Asia’, 15–18 October 2015, Huaqiao University, Xiamen.
• “‘It is as if the country has another province overseas’ — The political economy of Overseas Chinese policy at the beginning of the People’s Republic of China, 1948–1952”, at ‘Economic encounters in the age of ideology: New research on the role of Foreign Trade during the Cold War (1949–1991)”, 7–8 May 2015, LSE IDEAS, London.

Honours & Awards

• 2015–16: Doctoral Fellowship, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange
• 2012–15: PhD Scholarship, LSE.
• 2015: Research Grant, Royal Historical Society
• 2014: Research Grant, Universities’ China Committee in London
• 2012: MSc Empires, Colonialism and Globalisation, with Distinction; The Iris Forrester Prize, International History Department, LSE
• 2011–12: Tuition Grant, Lee Foundation
• 2011: BA History, with First-class Honours; The Stevenson Prize, International History Department, LSE