Siew Han Yeo is a PhD Student with the Department of History. Her background includes an MA in Southeast Asian Studies from the National University of Singapore. Her research looks at the social history of the Chinese diaspora in British Burma, and their numerous connections with the Straits Settlements. In particular, she is interested in how constructions of “Chineseness” have been influenced by (1) longer historical patterns of Chinese migration and settlement in Southeast Asia, and (2) as a social, religious and racial category of British colonial governance in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
