Calvin Yeo Jing Xun (Mr)

Proposed Thesis Title: Perceptions of the Tran from Within and Without in a Time of Dual Suzerainty, 1226-1289
Supervisor: Associate Professor Bruce Lockhart

After some time loitering in public service, I came to NUS to pursue my lifelong interest in history.

My research studies the interactions between Đại Việt and the Mongols during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. These were two parties who, separated by the vast geography between their heartlands in the Red River Delta and Central Asian steppes, were effectively unknown to each other prior to the Mongolian campaign against the Southern Song dynasty in China. Of particular interest is how both parties treated as outsiders on the fringes of the Sinitic world mediated their interactions through the medium of Sinitic cultural norms and political ideology throughout times of peace and the three Mongolian invasions of Đại Việt.

I can otherwise be found cooking, pet keeping, reading, or agonising over Formula 1 races.