Dr. LIU, Oiyan
廖藹欣博士
Assistant Professor, Department of History
Ph.D. Cornell University
B.A., M.A. Leiden University
(852) 3411 2558
oynliu@hkbu.edu.hk

RESEARCH FOCUS

Colonial Southeast Asia – China connections
Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality Studies
The Chinese Diaspora
Imperialism
Maritime Asia

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

“Creolised Confucianism: Syncretism and Confucian revivalism at the turn of the twentieth century Java,”Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol 1-2 (June 2020).
“Introduction: Charting the Maritime Structures in the Asian Seas” inCollected Essays of To the Seas and Beyond: An International Conference on the Maritime Silk Road(Hong Kong: Hong Kong Museum of History and Department of History, Hong Kong Baptist University, 2018), pp. 9-11.
〈儒教之安拉：殖民時期中華馬來文化圈之宗教混合〉，《海上絲綢之路史國際學術研討會論文集》（香港：香港歷史博物館及香港浸會大學歷史系，2018），頁241-246。
(Co-editor)Collected Essays of To the Seas and Beyond: An International Conference on the Maritime Silk Road, Clara Wing-chung Ho, Oiyan Liu, Thomas Marling, Ka-lai Chan, et. al. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong Museum of History and Department of History, Hong Kong Baptist University, 2018).
“Countering ‘Chinese Imperialism’: Sinophobia and Border Protection in the Dutch East Indies,”Indonesia 97 (April 2014): 87-110.

“Chinese Education Across the Empires: Knowledge, Politics, and Networks between Batavia, Singapore and Nanjing,” inChapters on Asia(Singapore: National Library Board, March 2014), pp. 132-150.
“The Educational Movement in the Early Twentieth Century Batavia and Its Connections with Singapore and China,”BiblioAsia, Vol. 6, No. 3 (October 2010): 22-28.
(Translator) “The Oceanography of the Archipelago”, “Is Opium a Genuine Evil? (1882)”, “Marriage in Minahasa” in Tineke Hellwig and Eric Tagliacozzo (eds.),The Indonesia Reader: History, Culture, Politics(Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2009).
(Co-author) “The National Archives (Jakarta) and the Writing of Transnational Histories of Indonesia,” inItinerario: International Journal of the History of European Expansion and Global Interaction1 (2008): 81-94.

FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS (Selected)

Externally funded projects as Principal Investigator:
“Centering Dutch Indies Chinese from the Margins: On Nationality and Subjectness in an Era of Inter-Imperial Rivalry, ca. 1854-1930.” Supported by RGC’s General Research Fund
“Chinese Mixed-race Communities in Eastern Java and Their Regional Connections: The Shaping of a Maritime Silk Road Corridor, 1400-1900.” Supported by RGC’s Early Career Scheme
“China’s Southeast Asia: Territory, People, Civilization, and Europe’s Fear.” Supported by RGC’s General Research Fund
Externally funded project as Co-Investigator:
“Where ‘Hong Kong in the Sea’ and ‘Hong Kong on the Land’ Meets – A Study on the Conversation of Building Clusters in the Ap Lei Chau-Aberdeen-Lamma Island Area.” Supported by the Built Heritage Conservation Fund, HKSAR Development Bureau.