INTERESTS
FENCING
Fencing has always fascinated me and has been the one sport that captivated me from a young age. Despite my keen interest in this sport from my early years, I have never ventured into this until my university days after being selected to be a member of NUS Fencing Club, where I train weekly during the evenings in NUS and at Absolute Fencing Club as an Épée fencer.
HISTORY & CHINESE LITERATURE
Chinese Women in Context
National University of Singapore
2024
According to conventional wisdom, Chinese women in history were particularly oppressed. It was only in the modern period that the patriarchal system started to break down and gender equality was finally realized. Such a simplistic view of dividing Chinese women’s experiences into two mutually exclusive categories of “traditional” and “modern” is misleading.
This course sets out to provide a more complex and nuanced picture of the life of Chinese women over time in China and elsewhere. Topics cover include marriage, women’s education, works and property rights, ideas about the female body and chastity and so on.
Chinese Tradition
National University of Singapore
2024
A general survey of the cultural tradition of China gave me a deeper understanding of how the Chinese lived and worked in the traditional era, their institutions and their thinking. The "Great tradition" and the "Small tradition" of Chinese society and their relevance to the present were examined. Topics of discussion include dearly Chinese worldview, Chinese religiosity, Chinese symbolism, Chinese names, Chinese festivals and folk customs. This course afforded me a better appreciation of the linkage between Chinese traditions in the past and modern society.
Chinese Music, Language & Literature
National University of Singapore
2023
Explored the complex relationships underlying Chinese music, language and literature.
Focussed on Chinese music from the perspective of popular music produced in the People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore. These four economies have developed different strands of popular music in Mandarin and various Chinese dialects, due to different linguistic and ideological environments.
Learnt how Chinese popular music draws upon the aesthetics of Chinese literature and traditional Chinese music, and how the music has hybridised influences from foreign musical genres, thus expressing different versions of “Chineseness”.
National heritage Board - Scholar Intern
Sun Yet San Nanyang Memorial Hall, Outreach & Education
2022
The only intern selected by National Heritage Board, as part of my Junior College scholarship. Interned at a Chinese History Museum, creating proposals for events and activities such as RiverHongBao2020 @ Gardens by the Bay, and collaboration with a Chinese Museum in China for a temporary exhibition.
Proposed a game idea that was eventually selected to be made into a Chinese activity game kit and was sold in the museum giftshop as part of Singapore Heritage Fest 2022.
Surrounding the theme of transport vehicles being used in the past, children can learn about this interesting piece of Singapore history, while improving their Chinese through this game kit that was inspired by the "Aeroplane Game", a traditional Singaporean childhood boardgame.
This game kit was a joint collaboration between River Valley High School and Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall.
Chinese Language Elective Programme Scholar (CLEP)
Ministry of Education - Hwa Chong Institution, H2 Chinese Language & Literature
2020 - 2021
A 2-year scholarship programme in selected junior colleges for students with aptitude and keen interest in Chinese language and literature.
All scholars must read the A'Level H2 Chinese Language & Literature (CLL)
Participated in a wide range of activities such as:
- literary lecture series, camp, immersion trip to Beijing (Peking University) and Taipei (National Taiwan University)
- editing and publishing of literary works (Zaobao)
- internships (National Heritage Board)
- school-based projects.
Independent Roman Archaeological Research
The American University of Rome - On-Site Study of Roman Archaeology
2024
Penned during my two-month sojourn in Rome, where I was engaged in archaeological fieldworks.
My research focusses on the architectural ideals & cultural convention in ancient Rome through dissecting the framework of large audiences arenas in Rome, Italy.
