The ivory tower is lonely.

Sometimes I try to write for other audiences and in other registers too, because the weird stories about the world deserve to be shared! Here are a list of some of my publications in other mediums.

Animals, Anxieties and Aspirations: The Earlier Years of the Singapore Zoo, BiblioAsia 20, No. 3 (2024). 

Of Swine and Sustainability: Change, Choices, and Challenges of Pig Farming in Singapore, 1965-1984, +65: A Journal by the Founders’ Memorial on Singapore’s Post-Independence History and Society, Vol. 02 (2022): 18-24.

Red Terror: The Forgotten Story of CPM Violence and Subversion in Newly Independent Singapore, BiblioAsia Vol. 18, Issue 02(July 2022): 52-57.

Commentaries

Commentary, “Of Change & Challenges: Reminders from Singapore’s Past Agricultural Transformations”, Food for Thought: A Publication of the Singapore Food Agency, 12 Oct 2022.

Commentary, “Journeys of Transformation: Singapore’s Pig Farmers after Pig Farming”, Food for Thought: A Publication of the Singapore Food Agency, 8 Sep 2022.

Commentary, “Commentary: Lessons from Singapore’s former pig farmers about business transformation”, TODAY, 6 Sep 2022.

Commentary, “Rethinking Self-Sufficiency: Lessons from Singapore’s Pig Farming Past”, RSIS Commentary, 1 Sep 2022.

Commentary, “Environment & the Singapore Story: What Next?”, RSIS Commentary, Mar 2021.

Other Publications

“Temple Flower Seller” and “Bus Captain”, interviews conducted in Mandarin, translated into English by Choo Ruizhi, in Hard at Work: Life in Singapore. Edited by Gerard Sasges and Ng Shi Wen. Singapore: NUS Press, November 2019.

“Eating Dogs: A Singapore Story” in The Birthday Book 2019: Narratives, Undiscovered and Underway. Edited by Aaron Maniam, Cheryl Chung, and Vieshaalan Naidu. Singapore: The Birthday Collective, August 2019.

“Knowledge of Emptiness” in Utterly Changed: The Substation Writing Competition, March 2019.