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YEAR
2025

department of chinese studies

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Chinese Studies
Politics and Ethnicity
Regionalism

RESEARCH KEYWORDS
Sarawak regionalism; Malaysian Chinese
politics; Voluntary Chinese organization;
Chinese Christianity.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
dr. Ngu, I. T. & Leow, P. W. (2024). How Malaysian
States and Their Strongmen Shape Urban
NGU IK TIEN Development: An Examination of the Sibu Municipal
tngu@um.edu.my Council. Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs,
43(2), 240-261. (WOS).
Ngu, Ik-Tien (2023). Moderation of Sarawak
EDUCATION Regionalism in Malaysia's 15th General Election,
PACIFIC AFFAIRS. 96(2), 323-341.
PhD, (Political Science) doi:10.5509/2023962323
Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) Ngu, I. T., & Ngeow, C. B. (2021). Soft power,
Confucius institute and China's cultural diplomacy
MA, (Political Science) in Malaysia. Kajian Malaysia, 39(1), 55-76. doi:
California State University, Los Angeles
10.21315/KM2021.39.1.3
Ngu I.-T. (2020). Revisiting resinicisation discourse
B.A, (Tionghua Studies)
Universiti Malaya (UM) on ethnic chinese in southeast asia the case of
malaysia, Hong Kong journal of Social Sciences.
UMEXPERT LINK (55), 1-22
Ngu, I. T. (2017). Ethnicity and nationalism:
https://umexpert.um.edu.my/tngu.html ideological struggles in Sarawak after the Second
World War. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 18(3), 433-
RESEARCHER ID 444. doi:10.1080/14649373.2017.1345346
AAZ-5317-2020 (Web of Science)
https://orcid.org/0009-0007-0361-498X SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS

SCOPUS ID UM Excellent Service Award 2020, 2022.
57195905590

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