Hoon, Chang Yau (Brunei) Host Institute: Center for China’s Relations with Neighboring Countries Host Professor: Prof. SHI Yuanhua Affiliated Institute: Centre for Advanced Research at the University of Brunei Darussalam, Brunei Research Interests: Chinese diaspora, Race and Ethnicity, Religion, Christianity, Contemporary Indonesia, Southeast Asia Duration：October 16 - November 13, 2017  Email: changyau.hoon@ubd.edu.bn

Biography of Hoon Chang Yau

Associate Professor Hoon Chang Yau is Director of Centre for Advanced Research at the University of Brunei Darussalam. He was a Visiting Scholar at Center for China’s Relations with Neighboring Countries of Fudan University (CCRNC Fudan) from October 2017 to November 2017.He was a Visiting Scholar at Center for China’s Relations with Neighboring Countries of Fudan University (CCRNC Fudan) from October 2017 to November 2017. He was a Visiting Scholar at Center for China’s Relations with Neighboring Countries of Fudan University (CCRNC Fudan) from October 2017 to November 2017.He was a Visiting Scholar at Center for China’s Relations with Neighboring Countries of Fudan University (CCRNC Fudan) from October 2017 to November 2017. He is also Adjunct Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia (UWA), where he obtained his PhD (with Distinction) in 2007. In his previous appointment at Singapore Management University, he received the SMU Teaching Excellence Award in 2012 and SMU Research Excellence Award in 2014. He is the author of, Chinese Identity in Post-Suharto Indonesia: Culture, Media and Politics (2008, Sussex Academic Press), and co-editor of Chinese Indonesians Reassessed: History, Religion and Belonging (Routledge, 2013), and Catalysts of Change: Ethnic Chinese Business in Asia (World Scientific, 2014).

He is currently working on a book on Christianity in urban Indonesia, and several projects on the rise of China and its implications on the Chinese diaspora.

Books

Catalysts of Change: Chinese Business in Asia, 2014, with Thomas Menkhoff, Chay Yue Wah and Hans-Dieter Evers, World Scientific Publishing, Singapore.

Chinese Indonesians Reassessed: History, Religion and Belonging, 2013, with Sai Siew Min, Routledge, London and New York.

Chinese Identity in Post-Suharto Indonesia: Culture, Politics and Media, 2008, Sussex Academic Press, Brighton and

Portland.

Papers

Hoon, Chang-Yau,“The Rise of China and its Impact on the Chinese Diaspora in Southeast Asia”, Journal of China’s Neighboring Diplomacy (December 2017) 

Hoon, Chang-Yau, 2017.“Putting Religion into Multiculturalism: Conceptualizing Religious Multiculturalism in Indonesia”, for Asian Studies Review, 41(3), pp.476-493.

Yip, Jeaney and Chang-Yau Hoon, 2016.“To Build a Generation of Stars: Megachurch Identity, Religion and Modernity in Indonesia”, South East Asia Research, 24(4), pp.477-491.

Hoon, Chang-Yau, 2016.“Aspirations among Urban Christians in Contemporary Indonesia”, International Sociology, 31(4), pp.413-431.

Hoon, Chang-Yau, 2014.“God and Discipline: Religious Education and Character Building in a Christian School in Jakarta”, South East Asia Research, 22(4), pp.505-524.

Parker, Lyn; Chang-Yau Hoon and Raihani, 2014.“Young people’s attitudes towards inter-ethnic and inter-religious socializing, courtship and marriage in Indonesia”, South East Asia Research, 22(4), pp.467-486.

Hoon, Chang-Yau, 2013.“Multicultural Citizenship Education in Indonesia: The Case of a Chinese Christian School”, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 44(3), pp. 490-510.

Hoon, Chang-Yau, 2010.“Face, Faith and Forgiveness: Elite Chinese Philanthropy in Indonesia”, Journal of Asian Business, 24(1&2), pp.51-66.

Hoon, Chang-Yau, 2009. “More than a Cultural Celebration: The Politics of Chinese New Year in Post-Suharto Indonesia”, Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies, Vol. 3, pp.90-105.