Tay Jun Hao 郑俊豪

Education:
B.A., Yale-NUS College, Singapore, History (Hons) with a Minor in Global Antiquities

Research Interests:
Historiography, the place of narratives in history, Pre-colonial History of Singapore, Early Modern History of Southeast Asia, Singapore History, Archaeology in Singapore, Sima Qian and the Shiji, Early Chinese divination and its role in texts.

Supervisor: A/P Kwee Hui Kian

Thesis title: The Historiography of Singapore's History: Uncovering the changes in the Singapore historical narrative and its relationship with Singapore's political economy from the 1980s to the present (Tentative)

My study focuses on the historiography of the official narrative of Singapore from her independence to recent times. This official narrative has undergone many ideological shifts and changes, but its core narratives have always been tied to the political and economic necessities that the Singapore government deemed as its priorities. Through textbooks and alternative media representations of these narratives, I endeavour to explain the changes in Singapore's national narrative from its past to present iterations, while foregrounding political and economic necessities of Singapore during the different periods and historical contexts that these narratives thrived in.