(I) Scholarly Books, Monographs And Chapters

Sole Author Books

• 柯群英，重建侨乡: 新加坡海外华人与侨乡的记忆和认同[Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng,Rebuilding the Ancestral Village: Memories and Identities of Singapore Chinese and their Home Village], HKU Press. Forthcoming, 2012.

• Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng, Rebuilding the Ancestral Village: Singaporeans in China (2nd Edition), jointly published by HKU Press (January 2011),National University of Singapore Press (May 2011) and Amsterdam University Press (November 2011) xvi + 279pp.

• Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng, State, Society and Religious Engineering: Towards A Reformist Buddhism, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, pp. xiv + 337 pp (including diagram). (November 2009). [2nd edition] xiv + 337pp.

• Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng, State, Society and Religious Engineering: Towards A Reformist Buddhism, Singapore: Times International: Eastern Universities Press, pp. viii + 328 pp (including diagram). (April 2003). viii + 328pp.

• Kuah Khun Eng, Rebuilding the Ancestral Village: Singaporeans in China, Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing Ltd and Brookfield, Vermont, U.S.A. pp. xv + 284 pp (including maps and tables). (January 2000). xv + 284pp.

• Edited Books
• Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng and Gilles Guiheux, (eds.) – Social Movements in China: The Expansion of Protest Spaces, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (July 2009), [Equal contribution]. 312pp.

• Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng, (ed.) Chinese Women and The Cyberspace, (Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam Press, May 2008). 275pp.

• Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng and Andrew P. Davidson, (ed.), At Home in the Chinese Diaspora: Memories, Identities and Belongings, (Richmond, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, March 2008), xi + 259pp. [Equal contribution].

• Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng and E. Hu-DeHart (eds.) - Voluntary Organizations in the Chinese Diaspora, (Hong Kong University Press, 2006), x + 295pp. (contribution: K.E. Kuah-Pearce 80%, Hu-DeHart 20%)

• Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng, (ed.), Chinese Women and Their Social and Network Capitals (Singapore: Marshall Cavendish International, 2004) vii + 271pp.

• Zhou Daming and Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng (eds.), Overseas Chinese and the Qiaoxiang Society,<<Qiaoxiang yimin yu difang shehui>> Beijing: Publishing House for Nationality, << Beijing: Minzu chubanshe>> (February 2003) ISBN: 7-105-05426-3 [Chinese title: 华南移民与地方社会] (January 2003) [Equal contribution]. 177pp.

• Grant Evans, Chris Hutton and Kuah Khun Eng (eds.), Where China Meets Southeast Asia, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies Publication and New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. (Hardback edition); Institute of Southeast Asian Studies Publication and White Lotus Press. viii + 346pp. (Bangkok) (Paperback edition)[Equal contribution].

(c) Book Chapters

• Gilles Guiheux and Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng*, “Universalistic Humanitarianism in Mainland China: A case study of a French NGO: in Indigenous and Medical Charities, edited by Brown, R. and Faure, D., Routledge Press [Equal Contribution][forthcoming].

• Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng and Huang Yedan, “The Flow of Trader’s Goddess: Tianhou in 19th Century America” in Free Trade and the Sino-America Relationship in the 19th and 20th Century, edited by Kendall Johnson, Hong Kong: HKU Press (January 2012), pp. 163 – 176. [Kuah-Pearce 70%; Huang 30%].

• Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng, “Forward” in Chiang Po-wei, Kinmen People and Jinmen Clan Association in Singapore, Kinmen, Taiwan: Kinmen County Cultural Office (March 2010)[Chinese] <<序>>，江伯煒，新洲浯民：新加坡金门人的总乡会馆，台湾金门：金门县文化局。

• Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng and Gilles Guiheux, “Framing Social Movements in China” inSocial Movements in China: Negotiating Protest Spaces, Amsterdam: AmsterdamUniversity Press (July 2009), pp. 9-24. [Equal contribution]

• Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng, “Anti-Globalisation Movement as Protest Space in Hong Kong Society” in Social Movements in China: Negotiating Protest Spaces,Amsterdam: AmsterdamUniversity Press, (July 2009), pp. 91 - 116.

• Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng, “A Strategic Partnership between Buddhism and the State: Delivering Welfare Services in Singapore” in Lai Ah Eng, Religious Diversities and Harmony in Singapore (September 2008), pp. 505-523.

• Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng, “Diversities and Unities: Towards a Reformist Buddhism in Singapore” in Lai Ah Eng, Religious Diversities and Harmony in Singapore (September 2008), pp. 195 - 214.

• Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng, “Internet as Social Capital and Social Space: Cyberactivityof Hong Kong and Shanghai Women” inChinese Women and The Cyberspace, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (May 2008), pp.25 - 47.

• Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng, “Introduction: Locating Chinese Women in the Cyberspace” inChinese Women and The Cyberspace, Amsterdam: AmsterdamUniversity Press (May 2008), pp. 11- 24

• Andrew P. Davidson and Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng, “Introduction: Diasporic Memories and Identities” in At Home in the Chinese Diaspora: Memory and Belonging, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (March 2008), pp. 1 - 11. [Equal contribution]

• Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng, “Collective Memories as Cultural Capital: from Chinese Diaspora to Emigrant Hometowns” in At Home in the Chinese Diaspora: Memory and Belonging, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (March 2008), pp.111 - 127.

• Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng, “The Poetics of Religious Philanthropy: Buddhist Welfarism in Singapore” in Religious Diversity and Civil Society: A Comparative Analysis, edited by Bryan S. Turner (Oxford: Bardwell Press, March 2008), pp. 167 - 185.

• Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng, Vom chinesischen religiösen Synkretismus zum Reformbuddhismus: Religiöse Modernisierung in Singapur, in Manfred Hutter (Hg.): Religionsinterne Kritik und religiöser Pluralismus im gegenwärtigen Südostasien, Frankfurt: Peter Lang Verlag, January 2008 (Religionswissenschaft 15), pp. 83-100.

• Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng, “Flow of Moral Obligations: Chinese Women Feeding their Ancestors”, in Conference Proceedings on The International Conference on Chinese Society and Chinese Studies, 24 – 26 October 2008, Nanjing: Department of Sociology, NanjingUniversity, pp. 180 – 195.

• Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng, "The Worship of Qingshui Zushi and Religious Revivalism in South China" inTan, Chee-Beng, ed., March 2006, Southern Fujian: Reproduction of Tradition in Post-Mao China, Hong Kong: ChineseHong KongUniversity Press, pp. 121 – 144.

• Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng and Evelyn Hu-DeHart, "Introduction: The Chinese Diaspora and Voluntary Associations" in Kuah-Pearce and Hu-Dehart (eds.), Voluntary Organizations in the Chinese Diaspora, Hong Kong: Hong KongUniversity Press, January 2006, pp. 1-28. [equal contribution]

• Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng, “The Cultural Politics of Clan Associations in Contemporary Singapore, inKuah-Pearce and Hu-Dehart (eds.), Voluntary Organizations in the Chinese Diaspora, (Hong Kong: Hong KongUniversity Press), January 2006, pp. 53 – 76.

• Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng, "Towards Religious Modernity: The Emergency of Engaged Reformist Buddhism in Singapore" in Chinese Mahayana Conference Thesis Collection, Singapore: Singapore Buddhist Federation, 2005: pp. 174 – 208.

• Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng,“State, Conservation and Ethnicization: A Case Study of Little India in Singapore” [国家，族群文化保护与族性化：以新加坡的小印度为例], in Zhou Daming and Ma Jianjian (eds.), An Investigation of the Process of Urbanization and the Problems of Ethnic Minorities [城市化进程中的民族问题研究], Beijing: Nationalities Publishing House [北京：民族出版社], November 2005, pp. 223-253.

• Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng, "The Cultural Politics of Mainland Chinese Migration to Hong Kong", edited by Chan, Johannes M.M., Immigration Laws and Policies in Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Sweet and Maxwell Asia, 2004, pp. 211 – 226.

• Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng, "Introduction" in Kuah-Pearce (ed.), Chinese Women and Their Social and Network Capitals, Singapore: Marshall Cavendish International, 2004, pp.1-20.

• Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng, "Cultural and Network Capitals: Chinese Women and the "Religious" Industry in South China" in Kuah-Pearce (ed.), Chinese Women and Their Social and Network Capitals, Singapore: Marshall Cavendish International, 2004, 121-143.

• Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng, "Tapping into their Social Networks: Chinese Businesswomen in the Garment Industry in Guangzhou" in Kuah-Pearce (ed.), Chinese Women and Their Social and Network Capitals, Singapore: Marshall Cavendish International, 2004, pp. 144-168. (co-author GAO Chong) [Equal contribution]

• Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng, "The Relationship Between Ancestor Worship and Cultural Capitalism in a QiaoxiangVillage in Fujian, South China" <<Fujian Qiaoxiang zhong wenhua ziben yu jizu de guanxi>>in Overseas Chinese and the Qiaoxiang Society<<Qiaoxiang yimin yu difang shehui>> Beijing: Publishing House for Nationality, << Beijing: Minzu chubanshe>> (February 2003), Zhou Daming and Kuah-Pearce Eng (eds.), co-editor, pp. 51 – 67.

• Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng, "Overseas Chinese and the Construction of Qiaoxiang Society" <<huaqiao yu qiaoxiang shehui de jiangou>> in Overseas Chinese and the Qiaoxiang Society, <<Qiaoxiang yimin yu difang shehui>> Beijing: Publishing House for Nationality, << Beijing: Minzu chubanshe>> (February 2003) – Zhou Daming and Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng (eds.), co-editor, pp. 1 –7.[Equal contribution]

• Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng, "Where Anthropology Meets Diaspora Studies: Some Considerations for EmigrantVillage (Qiaoxiang) Studies" in Zhou Daming and He Guochiang (eds.), New Perspectives on Cultural Anthropology, Hong Kong: International Yenhuang Cultural Publishing House, 2003, pp. 178 – 192. (柯群英, 2003, "人類學与散居人口研究：僑嚮研究中的一些注意事項",周大鳴，何國強主編《文化人類 學理論新視野學術研討會論文集》,國際炎黃文化出版社2003年12月第1版), pp. 178 – 192.

• Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng, "Buddhism in Singapore", in Melton, J. Gordon and Martin Baumann (eds.), Religions of the World: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Beliefs and Practices (vols. 1-4).Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 2002, vol. 4: 1184 - 1185.

• Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng and Wong Siu-lun "Dialect and Territorial-Based Associations: Cultural and Identity Brokers in Hong Kong" in Hong Kong Reintegrating with China: Political, Cultural and Social Dimensions, edited by Lee Pui-tak, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2001, pp. 203-218. [Kuah-Pearce 80%; Wong 20%]

• Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng and Wong Siu-lun "As Local and Global Cultural Brokers: A Fujianese Territorial Based Association in Hong Kong" in Intercultural Relations, Cultural Transformation and Identity: The Ethnic Chinese, edited by Teresita Ang, Manila: Kaisa Publication, 2000, pp. 226-235. [Kuah-Pearce 80%; Wong 20%]

• Kuah Khun Eng, "Negotiating Central and Provincial Policies: Border Trading in South China" in Kuah, K.E., Hutton, C. and Evans, G. (eds.), Where China Meets Southeast Asia, pp. 72-99, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies and New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000.

• G. Evans and C. Hutton, Kuah Khun Eng, "Introduction: The Disappearing Frontier?" in Kuah, K.E., Hutton, C. and Evans, G. (eds.), Where China Meets Southeast Asia, pp. 1-6, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies and New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000[Equal contribution].

• Kuah Khun Eng, "The Singapore-Anxi Connection: Ancestor Worship As Moral-Cultural Capital" in Douw, L, Huang, C. and Godley, M.R. (ed.), Qiaoxiang Ties: Interdisciplinary Approaches to "Cultural Capitalism" in South China, London: Kegan Paul International, 1999, pp. 143-157.

• Kuah Khun Eng, "The Split Family Phenomenon: An Emerging New Immigrant Family Structure in Contemporary Hong Kong" in Wang, Gungwu and Wong, J. (eds.), Hong Kong in China: A Year Later, Singapore: Times Academic Press, 1999, pp. 203-230.

• Kuah Khun Eng, "Rebuilding Their Ancestral Villages: The Moral Economy of the Singapore Chinese" in Wang, G.W. and Wong, J. (ed.), China's Political Economy, Singapore: University of Singapore Press and World Scientific, 1998, pp. 249-276.

• Kuah Khun Eng, "Doing Anthropology within a Transnational Framework: A Study of the Singapore Chinese and Emigrant Village Ties", in Cheung, S.C.H. (ed.), On the South China Track, Hong Kong: Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998, pp. 81-109.

• <<移民与家庭之间的折仲：1997焦虑的个人解决方式>>, in Skidmore, M., 香港与中国, translated by Jian Shi Yuan, Singapore: Toppan Co, 1997, pp. 47 – 61.

• Kuah Khun Eng, "Negotiating Emigration and the Family: Individual Solution to the 1997 Anxiety", in Skidmore, M., Hong Kong and China: Pursuing a New Destiny,Singapore: Toppan Publishing Company 1996, pp. 54-67.

• Kuah Khun Eng, "Customary and Legal Marriages: Emerging Trends in Hong Kong" in Ma, J., Chiao, J. and Thoraval, J. (eds.),Marriage Systems and Status of Women in Southern China, Nanning: Guanxi Minority Publishing House, 1994, pp. 141-158. (in Chinese). Co-author: Tam, M.S.M. [Equal contribution]

• Kuah Khun Eng, "Bugis Street in Singapore: Development, Conservation and the Reinvention of Cultural Landscape" in M.R. Askew and W.S. Logan (eds.), Cultural Identity and Urban Change in Southeast Asia, Australia: DeakinUniversity Press, 1994, pp. 167-186.

(d) Book Reviews

• Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng, Chinese Femininities/ Chinese Masculinities, edited by Susan Brownell and Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, 2002, Berkeley: University of California Press in China Perspectives, 2003 (50): 85-86 (November-December issue).

• Kuah Khun Eng,"Cantonese Society in a Time of Change" by Goran Aijmer and Virgil K.Y. Ho, 2000, Hong Kong: ChineseUniversity Press in Journal of Oriental Studies, 1999 (XXXVII: 1): 94-96.

• Kuah Khun Eng, "Race and State in Independent Singapore 1965-1990" by J. Clammer, 1998, Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing Ltd. (Book review) in Asian Ethnicity, 2000, 1(2): 173-174.

• Kuah Khun Eng, "Training the Body for China: Sports in the Moral Order of the People's Republic" by Susan Brownell, Asian Studies Review, 1997: 21 (2 and 3): 240-241.

• Kuah Khun Eng, "The Saga of Anthropology in China: From Malinowski to Moscow to Mao", ed. Gregory E. Guldin, ASAA Review (November Issue, 1995, 19 (2), pp. 116-118.

(II) JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

(a) Focus Issue Editor/co-editor of the following journals

• Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce and Jason Tan, Focus issue editors,Educational Governance in East Asia: Responding to Globalisationin Asia Pacific Journal of Education: Volume 30(4), December 2010.

• Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng, focus issue editor, “Locating the Self in the Chinese Diaspora” in Asian Studies Review, Volume 30 (3) September 2006. (Editor)

(b) Journal Articles

• Nazrul Islam and Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng, “Ayurvedization of Masculinity and Femininity in Modern India”, Journal of South Asia (accepted, 2012).

• Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng and Yiu-Chak Fong, “Identity and sense of belonging in post-colonial education in Hong Kong” in Asia Pacific Journal of Education, Volume 30 (4) December 2010: 433 – 448.

• Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng, and Jason Tan Eng Thye “Editorial Focus: Educational Governance in East Asia: Responding to Globalisation”, in Asia Pacific Journal of Education, Volume 30 (4) December 2010: 1 – 6.

• Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng, “Transnational Self in Chinese Diaspora: A Conceptual Framework” in Asian Studies Review Journal– “Locating the Self in the Chinese Diaspora” (Vol. 30 (3) September 2006), pp.223 – 240.

• Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng, “Locating the Self in the Chinese Diaspora: Introductory Remarks” in Asian Studies Review Journal – “Locating the Self in the Chinese Diaspora” – equal contribution (Vol. 30 (3) September 2006), pp. 217 – 222.

• Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng, “Moralising Ancestors as Socio-moral Capital: A Study of a Transnational Chinese Lineage”, in Asian Journal of Social Sciences, June 2006, vol. 34 (2): 243 – 263.

• 柯群英, <<中国女性及其建立社会网络的策略>> (Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng，Chinese Women and their Network Strategies) in神州交流 (Chinese Cross Currents), April – June 2005, pp. 71 – 91.

• Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng, "Where Anthropology Meets Diaspora Studies: Some Considerations in Qiaoxiang Studies, Journal of GuangxiUniversity For Nationalities, 2005 (July): 27 (4).<<人类学与散居人口研究:侨乡研究中的一些注意事>>,广西民族学院学报,pp. 55 - 62.

• Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng,"Chinese Women and The Strategy of Social Networking", in Chinese Cross Currents, Special Issue on Success and Values, 2005, 2(2): 70 – 91.

Kuah Khun Eng, "Cross-Border Trading in South China: Social and Economic Implications" in Histoire et Anthropologie, 2000 (20), pp. 99-128.

• Kuah Khun Eng, "The Moral Economy of Ancestor Worship in a ChineseEmigrantVillage" Journal of Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 1999 (23), pp. 99-132. (Special Issue: The Transformation of Social Experience in Hong Kong, Taiwan and China edited by Kleinman, A., Kleinman, J. and Lee, S.)

• Kuah Khun Eng, "State, Conservation and Ethnicisation of Little India in Singapore", Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development, 1998, 27 (1), pp. 1 - 48.

• Kuah Khun Eng, "Maintaining Ethno-Religious Harmony in Singapore", Journal of Contemporary Asia, 1998, 28(1): 103-121.

• Kuah Khun Eng, "Inventing a Moral Crisis and the SingaporeState", Asian Journal of Women's Studies, 1997, 3(1), pp. 36-70.

• Kuah Khun Eng, "Negotiating Emigration and the Family: Individual Solutions to the 1997 Anxiety", ANNALS, AAPSS (American Annals of Political and Social Sciences), 1996 (547), pp. 54-67. Special Issue on The Future of Hong Kong. (ISI: 0.327)

• Kuah Khun Eng, "Buddhism, Moral Education and Nation‑Building in Singapore", in Pacific Viewpoint (retitled Asia-Pacific Viewpoint) 1991, 32(1), pp.24‑42. (International Political Science Abstract --- ABI/Informs)

• Kuah Khun Eng, "Confucian Ideology and Social Engineering in Singapore" in Journal of Contemporary Asia, 1990, 20(3), pp.371‑383.

• Kuah Khun Eng, "Of Gods, Ancestors and Hungry Ghosts" in Criticism, Heresy and Interpretation, 1989, 3(l),pp.91‑96.

(III) CONFERENCE PAPERS

(a) Conference Proceedings

• Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng, “Bugis Street in Singapore: Development, Conservation and the Invention of Tourist Cultural Landscape” in Proceedings of International Conference on “Anthropological and Sociological Perspectives of Tourism”, 22-24 September 2011, pp. 29 -57. [Invited Paper]

• Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng, “Collective Memories as Cultural Capital: Diaspora Chinese Experience and the Rebuilding of Ancestral Village”, in Maritime Minnan: Historical and Geographical Intersection, Proceedings of the International Conference of Minnan Culture, 29-30 October, 2011, pp. 19 – 34. [Plenary Speech]

• Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng and Tang Hei Hang, Hayes (Compiler), Preliminary Conference Proceedings, the First International Symposium on Chinese Women and their Network Capital, (Department of Sociology, University of Hong Kong, June 20-21), 2002, pp. 308.

International Conferences and Workshops

Organiser, Convenor and Chair of Conferences and Workshops

Workshop on “Social Suffering, the Culture of Compassion and the Divided Moral Experiences in China”, the HarvardAsiaCenter and the Harvard-Yenching Institute, 7-8 May 2010, (co-organiser with Arthur Kleinman)

• International Symposium on “Migrant Entrepreneurship in the Mainland and Chinese Diaspora” at the University of Hong Kong, 12 June 2009 (Organiser)

• International Symposium on “The Rising Individuals and the Collective Morality: Social Transformations of Greater China in the Globalisation Age, at the University of Hong Kong, jointly with the Centre of East Asian Studies, University of California, Los Angeles 14 April 2009 (co-organiser)

• International Workshop on “Chinese on the move and the making of individual identities”, jointly between Centre for Anthropological Research, University of Hong Kong and University of Paris Diderot, Langues et Civilisations de l'Asie Orientale (LCAO) at the University of Paris Diderot, 29 November 2008, (co-organiser).

• International Conference on “Asian Heritages at the Crossroads”, Centre for Anthropological Research, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 4-5 December 2007.

• Workshop on “Tourism, Globalisation and Identity in Contemporary China”, jointly organized by the Department of Sociology and Centre for Anthropological Research, University of Hong Kong, 17 June 2006.

• International Conference on “Emerging Social Movements In China”,jointly organised by the French Centre for Research on Contemporary China (CEFC) and the Centre for Anthropological Research, Hong Kong University with the financial support of the Consulate General of France in Hong Kong and the Fonds d’Alembert (Ministère des Affaires étrangères, Paris), 23 - 24 March 2005 (co-organiser).

• Second International Symposium on "Chinese Women and Their Cybernetworks", Centre for Anthropological Research, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, October 20-21, 2004.

• First International Symposium on "Chinese Women and Their Network Capital", Department of Sociology, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, June 20-21, 2002 (sponsored by Lee Foundation, Singapore).

• Conference on "Local Society, Identity and Change in South China", jointly organised with Department of Anthropology, ZhongshanUniversity, Guangzhou, 16-17 June 2001. Funded by the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Hong Kong (co-organiser).

• Postgraduate Research Symposium, Department of Sociology, University of Hong Kong, 19 May 2001.

• Postgraduate Symposium: Research-in-Progress, Department of Sociology, University of Hong Kong, 12-13 April 1997.

• International Conference on "South China and Mainland Southeast Asia: Cross Border Relations in the Post-Socialist Age", Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong, 4-6 December 1996.

• Organiser and Chair – International Conference Panels
• “Women in the Global Religious Supermarket”, March 31 – April 4, 2011, at the AAS-ICAS International Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A. (panel organizer)

• Return Migration in Asia: Experiences, Ideologies and Politics, July 31– August 1, 2008, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore [Chair of two panels]

• 1st International Conference on Global Diaspora, 5th July - 7th July 2008 MansfieldCollege, OxfordUniversity [Chair of panel and specialist discussant]

• “Emerging Cosmopolitan Identities in Chinese Societies” at the 10th Biennial Conference of the Chinese Studies Association of Australia, GriffithUniversity: South Bank (City) Campus, 27 -29 June 2007. (Co-panel organiser: David Ip). [Panel Organiser and Chair]

• Global Religious Supermarkets: Spirituality, Politics and Identities at the Fifth International Convention of Asia Scholars, Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2 to 5 August 2007. [Panel Organiser and Chair]

• The State and Educational Governance in East Asiaat the Fifth International Convention of Asia Scholars, Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2 to 5 August 2007. (co-panel organiser: Jason Tan). [Panel Organiser and Chair]

• “Policies for the Overseas Communities”, 4th China-India Roundtable on Population Policies and Development, organized by the Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong, 22-23 September 2005. [Chair]

• “Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Governance and Regionalism in Asia”, Conference on Governance and Regionalism in Asia, organized by the Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong, 8-9 December, 2005. [Chair]

• A Forum on “Understanding Transnational Chinese - Qiaoxiang Relationship", presented at jointly organised by Department of Sociology and Centre for Anthropological Research, University of Hong Kong, 26 November 2003. [Chair]

• 9th International Biennial Conference of The Chinese Studies Association of Australia Conference. Theme: Chinese in the Diaspora, Bendigo, Australia, 30 June to 3 July 2005. Panel Organiser (co-panel organiser David Ip)

• “Locating the Self in the Chinese Diaspora” (Panels 1 and 2) in 9th International Biennial Conference of The Chinese Studies Association of Australia Conference[chair of panel 1]

• The Sixth Annual Conference of the Hong Kong Sociological Association onSocial Transformations in Hong Kong and Asia: Crisis, Progress and Renewal, 4 December 2004, Organiser: Department of Sociology, University of Hong Kong. Panel Organiser of 2 panels (co-panel organiser Gao Chong)

• Reconfiguring State and Local Society: Grassroots Politics in Post-Socialist China

The Practice of Grassroots Politics in Urban China (panel organizer)

• Panel Theme: Narrating Migration Experiences: Social Memory and Identity in the Chinese Diaspora, 3rd International Convention of Asian Scholars, Singapore:August 19th to 22nd 2003. [Panel organiser]

• "Overseas Chinese Voluntary Organisations: Localisation and Globalisation" for the International Convention of Asian Scholars, 8-12 August 2001, Berlin. Panel organiser (of 3 sessions)
• session 1: Overseas Chinese Voluntary Organisations in Asia: Localisation and Globalisation
• session 2: Overseas Chinese Voluntary Organisations in Europe: Localisation and Globalisation
• session 3: Overseas Chinese Voluntary Organisations in America and Australia

• Invited Keynotes, Distinguished Lectures, Seminars and Conferences

Distinguished and Keynote Lectures:

• Delivering Compassion to the Villagers: Philanthropic Partnership between Local Government and Buddhist Organisations in China”, International Workshop on Charities and Legitimacy of Organisation, Law, Accountability, and Transparency, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, 12 – 16 December 2011. [Invited presentation]

• “Locating the Self in the Chinese Diaspora”, Anthropology Research Institute, ZhejiangUniversity, 25 November 2011. [Invited public lecture]

• “Lifestyle Heritage as Cultural Memories and Cultural Capital: Fishing Village Lifestyle of Tai O” in International Conference on the Preservation and Development of Intangible Heritage in Contemporary China, Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Culture and Arts and Anthropology Research Institute at Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, 26 – 27 November 2011. [Invited presentation]

• “Cyberactivism in Mainland China: The Internet as a Tool and Method for Social Mobilisation” inInternational Conference on Social Science Methodology: A Special Reference to Social Movements, Centre for Nepal and Asian Studies (CNAS) Tribhuvan University (TU) Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal in November 15-17, 2011 (Invited presentation).

• “Collective Memories as Cultural Capital: Chinese Overseas and the Rebuilding of Emigrant Villages in International Conference on South China Cultures, Kinmen University, Taiwan, 29 – 30 October 2011. (Plenary lecture)

• DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES: “Sociological Approaches to Contemporary Chinese Social Issues”, co-hosted by the University of Social Sciences and Humanities (Ho Chi Minh City (vietnam) and Harvard-Yenching Institute (United States), 3 – 8 October 2011:
• Lecture 09 - Prof. KUAH-PEARCE Khun Eng - Collective memories and identity through transnational space
• Lecture 10 - Prof. KUAH-PEARCE Khun Eng - Chinese Women and their Social and Cyber Capitals

• “Bugis Street in Singapore: Development, Conservation and the Invention of Tourist Cultural Landscape”, paper presented at the “International Conference on “Anthropologial and Sociological Perspectives of Tourism”, Yangshuo, Guilin, Guangxi, China, 22-24 October 2011. [invited presentation]

• Transnationalizing charity and philanthropy in Mainland China: A case study of Medecins Sans Frontieres (A French NGO), paper presented at the International Workshop on Volunteering and Civic Engagement in Chinese Cities
  June 10 -11, 2010 , The University of Hong Kong, (co-author: Gilles Guiheux)

• “Doing Compassion: The Reach of Humanistic Buddhism into China”, paper presented at the Workshop on “Social Suffering, The Culture of Compassion and Divided Morality in China”,7-8 May 2010, organized by Havard-Yenching Institute and Asia Center, Harvard University.

• “Humanistic Buddhism and the Global Reach of Philanthropy”, paper presented at the Harvard-Yenching Institute Seminar Series, 10 February 2010.

• Invited Speaker at the launch of our edited book: “Social Movements in China and Hong Kong: The Expansion of Protest Space” in the ICAS Publication Series (Amsterdam University Press) during the 6th International Convention of Asian Scholars, 6 – 9 August 2009, Daejeon, Korea.

• Keynote Speaker, “Humanistic Buddhism and Globalisation”, Symposium on Buddhism in Asia, organised by University Scholars Programme, National University of Singapore, National University of Singapore, 24 July 2009.

• “The Business of Ayurveda in the Global World Today: Selling Feminism”, a paper presented at the International Symposium on Anthropology of Business, 12 June 2009, jointly organised by the Centre for Anthropological Research and School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Hong Kong, (co-author Md. Nazrul Islam).

• “Superwomen or Women with Super-strength”, a paper presented at the International Symposium on “Migrant Entrepreneurship in Mainland China and the Chinese Diaspora”, 13 June 2009, organised by the Centre for Anthropological Research, University of Hong Kong.

• “The Flow of Traders’ God: Mazu Worship from Southeast China to the Chinese Diaspora”, a paper presented at the Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Narratives of Free Trade in Early Sino-American Relations, 15 – 19 June 2009, (co-author: Huang Yedan).

• “Identity-bonding through Religious Compassion: The Case of Master Jie Chen and the Hong Kong Buddhist Association” [从宗教慈善文化谈海外华人与故乡的认同:香港佛学会和戒晟法师的个案研究], a paper presented at the The Fourth International Conference of Institutes & Libraries for Chinese Overseas Studies, ConferenceTheme: Interaction and Innovation: Multidimensional Perspectives in Chinese Overseas Studies, May 9 – 11, 2009, Jinan University, China.

• “Gan-en (感恩) and Ye (业): Locating Collective Compassion in the Monastic Individual”, a paper presented at the International Symposium on “Rising Individuals and the Collective Morality: Social Transformations of Greater China in the Globalisation Age”, 14 April 2009, jointly organised by the Centre for Anthropological Research, University of Hong Kong and The Center for Chinese Studies, University of California, Los Angeles.

• “Superwomen or Women with Super Strength: Mobility and Identity of Chinese Migrant Women Entrepreneurs in the Garment Industry”, invited paper presented at an International Workshop on Chinese on the Move and the Making of Individual Identities, University of Paris Diderot, 29 November 2008.

• “Flow of Moral-indebtedness: Chinese Women Feeding their Ancestors”, invited paper presented at the 3rd International Conference on Chinese Sociology and China Studies, Nanjing University, 24-26 October 2008.

• “Collective Memories as Cultural Capital: From Chinese Diaspora to Emigrant Hometowns” presented an invited lecture to University of Leuven, Belgium, 25 June 2008.

• “Internet as Social Capital and Social Network: Cyberactivity of Hong Kong and Shanghai Women” presented an invited lecture toCECMC (EHESS), France, 23 June 2008.

• “Collective Memories as Cultural Capital: From Chinese Diaspora to Emigrant Hometowns” presented an invited lecture to ParisDiderotUniversity, 18 June 2008.

• “Chinese Women and The Cyberspace”, IIAS Fellow Symposium, Leiden, the Netherlands, 28 May 2008, presentation via video-conferencing (book launch of my edited book Chinese Women and the Cyberspace, May 2008, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

• “Collectives Memories as Cultural Capital: From Chinese Diaspora to Emigrant Hometowns”, presented an invited lecture to the TaipeiMunicipalUniversity of Education (24 March 2008)

• “Cultural Heritage as Cultural Capital: Management of Heritage by Singapore State”, paper presented at the International Conference on “Asian Heritages at the Crossroads”, Centre for Anthropological Research, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 4-5 December 2007.

• “Collectives Memories as Cultural Capital: From Chinese Diaspora to Emigrant Hometowns”, presented an invited lecture to NationalTaiwanNormalUniversity (November 23, 2007)

• “Internet and Gender Empowerment: Comparing Chinese Women in Hong Kong and Shanghai”, presented an invited lecture to the TaipeiMunicipalUniversity of Education (November 23, 2007)

• “Transnationalizing Compassion and the Emergent Cosmopolitan Feminist Spiritual Self”, paper presented at IGU Commission on Gender and Geography: Transnational Lives: Feminist Perspectives on Citizenship, Home and Belonging (NationalTaiwanUniversity, Taipei, 24 – 26 November 2007).

• “Transnational Self in the Chinese Diaspora: A Conceptual Paradigm”, lecture delivered at the Department of Anthropology, SunYat-SenUniversity, Guangzhou, PRC, 12 May 2006.

• “Diversities and Unities: Towards A Reformist Buddhism in Singapore”, paper presented at the Conference on Religious Harmony and Diversity in Singapore, organized by the Institute of Policy Studies, National University of Singapore, 1 – 2 September 2005.

• “Delivering Welfare Services in Singapore: A Strategic Partnership between Buddhism and the State”, paper presented at the Conference on Religious Harmony and Diversity in Singapore, organized by the Institute of Policy Studies, National University of Singapore, 1 – 2 September 2005.

• "State, Conservation and the Ethnic Relations: The Example of the Little India in Singapore", paper presented at the International Conference on Urbanisation and the Question of Ethnicity, Zhongshan University 19-20 November 2004, Organiser: Department of Anthropology, Zhongshan University and Guangdong Institute of Nationalities Studies.

• "Towards Religious Modernity: Reformist Buddhism in Singapore", presented at the International Conference on Tradition and Modernity: Mahayana Buddhism and Its Modern Interpretation, Singapore: Singapore Buddhist Federation, 26 – 27 June 2004.

• "Reinventing a New Image: Traditional Chinese Voluntary Associations in HongKong and Singapore", paper presented at the Conference on Subethnicity in the Chinese Diaspora, Toronto, Canada, September 12-13, 2003. (http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~salaff/conference/abstracts.htm)

• Keynote Lecture - “Where Anthropology Meets Diaspora Studies: Some Considerations for Emigrant Village (Qiaoxiang) Studies, Conference in the Honor of 50 years Teaching of Professor Huang Shuping and the Academic Seminar of Anthropological Theory and Methodology, organised by the Department of Anthropology, Zhongshan University, Zhongshan City, 24-26 August 2002. (in Chinese)

• "Women, Religious Capital and the Incense and Oil Industry in South China", invited paper presented at the East Asia Institute, NationalUniversity of Singapore, 23 July 2002.

• "The Cultural Politics of Mainland Chinese Migration to Hong Kong", invited paper presented at the Conference on Immigration Law and Policies, University of Hong Kong, 24 February 2001.

• "Cultural Capitalism in South China: The Roles of Ancestor Worship", invited paper presented at the Department of Anthropology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 24 November 2000.

• "Chinese Lineage as Cultural Network: A Model", paper presented at the Workshop on Networking in Chinese History: The Utility of A Concept, Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong, 5 February 1999.

• "The Split Family Phenomenon: An Emerging New Immigrant Family Structure in Contemporary Hong Kong, paper presented at the Conference on Hong Kong in China: A Year Later, organised by the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore, 26-29 October 1998.

• "Ancestor Worship as Moral-Cultural Capital: Reviving the Chinese Lineage", First International Convention of Asian Scholars, Noordwijkerhout, Holland, 25-26 June 1998. [invited presentation]

• "Chinese Dialect Associations as Cultural Brokers: Maintaining Ties Between China and Hong Kong", invited paper presented at the International Conference on Hong Kong and Modern China, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 3-5 December 1997.

• "Rebuilding the Ancestral Village: The Moral Economy of the Singapore Chinese", invited paper presented at the Department of Anthropology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 24 October 1997.

• "Village Reconstruction and the Moral Economy: The Relationship Between Singapore Chinese and Their Ancestral Villages", invited paper presented at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore, 29 August 1997.

• "Maintaining Ethno-Religious Balance and The Singapore State", invited paper presented at the Australia-Asian Centre, SwinburneUniversity of Technology, 22 July 1997.

• "Insiders or Outsiders: Doing Research in the Emigrant Villages". Invited paper presented at a Workshop on The Futures of Anthropology: Reflections on Anthropological Research and Teaching in South China, Department of Anthropology, ChineseUniversity of Hong Kong, 10-11 June 1997.

• "Doing Anthropology of Singapore Chinese and the EmigrantVillage Ties: Greater China Thesis or Cultural Network Analysis". Invited paper presented at an International Workshop on Indigenous and Indigenised Anthropology in Asia, Research School of Asian, African and Ameridian Studies, LeidenUniversity, The Netherlands, 1-3 May 1997.

• "Negotiating Central and Provincial Policies: Border Trading in Southern China". Invited paper presented at the Conference on South China and Mainland Southeast Asia: Cross Border Relations in the Post-Socialist Age, Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong, 4-6 December 1996.

• "Singapore Chinese and Their Qiaoxiang: Reviving Ancestor Worship". Invited paper presented at the International Conference on The Transformation of Social Experience in Hong Kong, Taiwan and China, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 25-31 August 1996.

(d) Conference Paper Presentations (from 1997 onwards)

• “Religious Compassion and Philanthropy as Agency of Modernity: The Case of Socially Engaged Buddhism in Asia”, paper accepted for presentation at the International Conference: Sociology in the Age of Austerity, organised by the British Sociological Association, 11 – 13 April, 2012, University of Leeds, United Kingdom.

• “Socially-engaged Buddhism as a Global Transformative Force: Understanding Transnational Buddhist Philanthropy”, paper presented at the International Society for the Sociology of Religion Conference, 31 June – 4 July 2011, Aix-de-Provence, France.

• “The Chinese Diaspora’s New Venture: Buddhist Philanthropy”, paper to bepresented at the International Conference on Chinese Overseas: Culture, Religions and Worldview (21-22 June 2011), organized bythe International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas and Anthropology Department CUHK.

• “Carving a niche in Buddhist Philanthropy: Chinese women and transnational religious volunteerism”, paper presented at the International Conference of Asian Studies, jointly organized by AAS and ICAS, 31 May to 4 April 2011, Honolulu, Hawaii.

• “Premarital Intimacy in Transnational Marriage: Chinese Women Finding the Right South Korean Husband”, paper presented at The 5th International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, 2 -5 August 2010, CambridgeUniversity (co-author: Jin Hong)

• “Humanistic Buddhism and the Reach of Democratic Ideals”, paper presented at the Southeast Conference of the 49th Meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, 15 -17 January 2010, Louisville, Kentucky.

• “Transnational Self in the Chinese Diaspora: A Conceptual Framework”, paper presented at the 1st International Conference on Global Diaspora, 5th July - 7th July 2008, Mansfield College, Oxford University.

• “Collectives Memories as Cultural Capital: From Chinese Diaspora to Emigrant Hometowns”, paper presented at the 6th International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas Conference, Peking University, Beijing, China, 20 – 23 September 2007.

• “Transnationalizing Buddhist Philanthropic Culture in the Asian Context”. Paper presented at the Fifth International Convention of Asia Scholars, Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2 to 5 August 2007.

• “Student identity formation and negotiation in post-colonial Hong Kong”, paper presented at the Fifth International Convention of Asia Scholars, Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2 to 5 August 2007. (co-author: Fong Yiu-chak).

• “Emerging Cosmopolitanism: Conceptualising Chinese Migration and Diaspora in Global Space”, paper presented at the 10th Biennial Conference of the Chinese Studies Association of Australia, GriffithUniversity: South Bank (City) Campus, 27 -29 June 2007.

• “Kinship Obligation, Economic Calculating and Entrepreneurship: the Case of Migrant Entrepreneurs in Suburban Guangzhou”, presented at International Conference on “Chinese Society and China Studies” 26-27 May 2007, NanjingUniversity, PRC. (co-author: Gao Chong)

• “Traditional Medicine and Health Commodification: Impact of Globalization on Ayurvedic Medicine”, paper presented at Hong Kong Sociological Association 8th Annual Conference, December 2, 2006, Organizer: Hong KongShueYanCollege (co-author: Nazrul Islam).

• “The Poetics of Religious Philanthropy in Postcolonial Singapore: State and Buddhism”, paper presented in Asian Studies Association of Australia Conference, 26 -29 June 2006, Wollongong, Australia.

• “Consuming Temples and Monastic Sites in Spiritual Tourism” paper presentedin Workshop on “Tourism, Globalisation and Identity in Contemporary China”, jointly organized by the Department of Sociology and Centre for Anthropological Research, University of Hong Kong, 17 June 2006.

• “Tourism, Globalisation and Identity: Opening Remarks” paper presented inWorkshop on “Tourism, Globalisation and Identity in Contemporary China”, jointly organized by the Department of Sociology and Centre for Anthropological Research, University of Hong Kong, 17 June 2006.

• “Medicine and Religion: The Contrast of Orthodoxy and Secularism in Indian Medicine (Ayuverda)”, paper presented at the Hong Kong Sociological Association, Polytechnic University of Hong Kong, 3 December 2005 (co-author: Nazrul Islam)

• “From Migrant Workers to Becoming Boss: Garment Entrepreneurs in Guangzhou”, paper presented at the Hong Kong Sociological Association, Polytechnic University of Hong Kong, 3 December 2005 (co-author: Gao Chong).

• “Chinese Women and the Cyberspace” (华人女性与虚拟空间),paper presented at the International Conference on 20 Years of Research on Chinese Women and Gender – Reflections and Future Trends”, organized by the Centre for Gender Research, CUHK, CUHK Gender Studies and Centre for Women Studies, Beijing University, 17 – 19 November 2005.

• “From Ethnic to Transnational Self: A Conceptual Framework for the Study of Chinese Diaspora”, paper presented at the 9th International Biennial Conference of The Chinese Studies Association of Australia Conference. Theme: Chinese in the Diaspora, Bendigo, Australia, 30 June to 3 July 2005.

• "Negotiating the Internet as a New Social Space", Second International Symposium on "Chinese Women and Their Cybernetwork", Centre for Anthropological Research, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, October 20-21, 2004.

• "Ancestors as Moral-Cultural Capital: Connecting the Chinese Between the Diaspora and the Source”, presented at the International Conference on Transnational Religions: Intersections of the 'Global' and 'Local', Singapore: National University of Singapore, Asia Research Institute, 19 –20 July 2004.

"Reconnecting to the Source: A Model for Understanding Transnational Chinese - Qiaoxiang Relationship", presented at Forum on Chinese Overseas and China Relationship, jointly organised by Department of Sociology and Centre for Anthropological Research, University of Hong Kong, 26 November 2003.

• "Negotiating Transnational Memories: Singapore Chinese in between the Ancestral Village and their Adopted Home" in Panel Theme: Narrating Migration Experiences: Social Memory and Identity in the Chinese Diaspora, 3rd International Convention of Asian Scholars, Singapore: August 19th to 22nd 2003.

• "Women, Religious Capital and the Incense and Oil Industry in South China", the First International Symposium on "Chinese Women and their Network Capital, Department of Sociology, University of Hong Kong, June 20-21, 2002.

• "The Relationship Between Ancestor Worship and Cultural Capitalism in South China", Conference on "Social Changes and Development in the Emigrant Villages in South China", Jointly organised by Department of Sociology, University of Hong Kong and Zhongshan University, PRC, 16-17 June 2001.

• "The Cultural Politics of Clan Associations in Singapore ", 2ndInternational Convention of Asian Scholars, 8-12 August 2001, Berlin.

• "New and Old Roles: Tongxiang Hui in Hong Kong and Singapore", paper presented at the International Conference on Traditions, Identity and Change in Minnan, China, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 4-6 June 1999.

• "The Hawker Centres: Negotiating Chinese Food and Identity in Singapore", panel organiser and paper presented at the Association for Asian Studies Conference, 10-13 March 1999, Boston, U.S.A.

• "As Local and Global Cultural Brokers: Fujianese-based Territorial Associations in Hong Kong", paper presented at the International Conference on the Ethnic Chinese: Inter-cultural Relations and Cultural Transformation of Ethnic Chinese Communities, organised by the International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas, Manila, Philippines, 26-28 November 1998.

• "State, Ethnicity and Religious Law in Singapore", Paper presented at the 2nd Asia Pacific Regional Conference of Sociology, Kuala Lumpur: 18-20 September 1997.

• "The Moral Economy of Ancestor Worship and Lineage Revivalism: Singapore Chinese and Their Qiaoxiang". Paper presented at the Conference of the 5th Chinese Studies Association of Australia, Adelaide, Australia, 16-18 July 1997.