So what's new? Another Pappy porlumpah academic without a shred of credibility.
You want a really independent expert on post-war Singaporean history, look no further than Loh Kah Seng. He wanted to do a paper on Operation Cold Store, but was blackballed by his boss at ISEAS and lost his job. Couldn't find a job in academia here. Had to go to Kyoto to teach, and is now a Assoc Prof at Sogang, Korea. Now you know why the research coming out from our local institutions are not worth the toilet paper it's printed on.
http://sogang.academia.edu/KahSengLoh
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I am an assistant professor at the Institute for East Asian Studies, Sogang University. My present research investigates the transnational and social history of the making of Southeast Asia after World War Two.
I have written and edited five books: Squatters into Citizens: The 1961 Bukit Ho Swee Fire and the Making of Modern Singapore (NUS Press & ASAA 2013); Oral History in Southeast Asia: Memories and Fragments (co-edited, Palgrave Macmillan 2013); Controversial History Education in Asian Contexts (co-edited, Routledge 2013); The University Socialist Club and the Contest for Malaya: Tangled Strands of Modernity (co-authored, Amsterdam University Press & NUS Press 2012); The Makers and Keepers of Singapore History (co-edited, Ethos Books & Singapore Heritage Society 2010); and Making and Unmaking the Asylum: Leprosy and Modernity in Singapore and Malaysia (SIRD 2009). I have also published in peer-reviewed history, Asian studies and interdisciplinary journals.
I was previously a school teacher and continues to speak to students and teachers about the joys and challenges of studying the past.
Research interests:
Postwar Southeast Asia
Disasters and history
Singapore and Malayan history (postwar, colonial)
Social history
Squatters and slum dwellers
History of medicine
Oral history & memory
Student activism
Archives
Teaching areas:
Singapore
Southeast Asia
When not doing history, I try to inspire Liverpool to their elusive 19th league title from the comfort of my living room. I keep tropical fish and cichlids are my favourites.
Loh Kah Seng
BA(Hons), MA (NUS), Dip.Ed (NIE), PhD (Murdoch)
lkshisATgmail.com
