Mr Zhen Hao  Liew

Mr Zhen Hao Liew

PhD Student

Department of International History

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Languages
Dutch, Mandarin
Key Expertise
Migration, Overseas Chinese, Colonialism

About me

Zhen Hao Liew is a full-time PhD candidate at LSE, who works under the supervision of Dr Ronald C. Po and Dr Qingfei Yin. He graduated with a BA (Hons) in History from the National University of Singapore and an MPhil in World History from the University of Cambridge. Before joining LSE, he was a history educator with the Ministry of Education, Singapore. His PhD research topic explores the role of coercion and punitive practices in the colonial management of the mobilities of Chinese labourers and populations in both British Malaya and the Dutch East Indies.

Thesis title: Carceral Spaces and Punitive Mobilities: Re-examining Chinese migration in Colonial Maritime Southeast Asia, 1900-1957

Expertise Details

(Im)mobilities; carcerality and punishment; Insular Southeast Asia

Awards and Honours

  • London Arts and Humanities Partnership (LAHP) Studentship (MPhil/PhD, LSE)

  • Graduate Tutors Prize for Distinction in Masters Degree (MPhil, Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge) 

  • Ministry of Education Teaching Award (Undergraduate) (Honours Degree, National University of Singapore)