Regional: Asia | Thematic: Childhood & Youth | Thematic: Empire & Colonialism | Thematic: Politics & the State

B.A. (First Class Honours), National University of Singapore
M.A., National University of Singapore

Research Interests

• Southeast Asian history and historiography
• Singapore history and historiography
• Student and youth activism and politics
• History of childhood and youth
• History of colonialism and
• History of education

Books

L.Kah Seng; E. Liao; L.Cheng Tju; S. Guoquan. Tangled Strands of Modernity: The University Socialist Club and the Contest for Malaya. Amsterdam, Netherlands; Singapore: Amsterdam University Press; National University of Singapore Press, 2012.

Articles/Book Chapters

E. Liao, “Other Kinds of Amnesia – Young Singaporeans and the Internet”, in Singapore Shifting Boundaries: Social Change in the Early 21st Century, W. Lim, Siddique, S., and Feng, T. Dan Singapore: Asia Urban Lab , 2011.