Ng Jia han, Bernard
Ph.D. (Anthropology)
Research Interest: Nusantara's Plan: Infrastructure and Sustainability Transformation in Sabah
Bernard Ng Jia Han holds a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Engineering from Nanyang Technological University and a Master’s degree in Anthropology from National Taiwan University. His research focuses on infrastructure, marginality, sustainability, ethnicity, and the evolving dynamics of Insular Southeast Asia. Combining technical and ethnographic perspectives, Bernard explores how development and diversity intersect across the region.
Beyond academia, he has professional experience in Singapore’s media industry and with NGOs, contributing to projects at the nexus of culture, communication, and social change. As a Chinese-language columnist for Malaysiakini and The News Lens (Southeast Asia edition), he writes on issues of identity, inequality, and the environment.
Bernard has published his undergraduate and postgraduate theses, as well as journal articles. He also serves as an author, editorial reviewer, and external reviewer for textbooks and teachers’ handbooks commissioned by Malaysia’s Independent Chinese Secondary School Working Committee.
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Publications:
Scientific report
Ng B.J.H., (2010). Optimization of Bio-conversion of Green Waste to Reducing Sugar. LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, Saarbrücken, Germany.
Non-fiction
Ng B.J.H., (2023). Who is Sabah Native? The Gap between Sino and Bumiputera Status. Strategic Information and Research Development Centre, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. [in Chinese]
· Winner of 2024 Malaysian Chinese Studies Academic Monograph Award
Journal article (first author only)
Ng B.J.H., Wang J.-Y., Qi W., Chen C.-L., (2011). Optimization and Enhancement of Microbial Hydrolysis of lignocellulosic waste to reducing sugars, NTU CEE Research bulletins, 24, 68-70.
Ng B.J.H., Giannis A., Chang V.W.-C., Stegmann R., and Wang J.-Y. (2012). Modeling decentralized source-separation systems for urban waste management. World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, 68, 398-402.
Ng B.J.H., Zhou J., Giannis A., Chang V.W.C., Wang J.-Y. (2014). Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Different Domestic Wastewater Streams: Policy Effectiveness in a Tropical Urban Environment. Journal of Environmental Management. 140, 60-68.
Ng B.J.H., Mao Y., Chen C.-L., Rajagopal R.,Wang J.-Y. (2015). Municipal food waste management in Singapore: practices, challenges and recommendations. Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management. doi: 10.1007/s10163-015-0405-8.
Ng B.J.H. (2020). Temple Shrine, Heroic Spirit and Anthill: Diverse Practices of Datuk Gong Cult in Sabah. Asia-Pacific Research Forum. 67, 41-76. [in Chinese]
Ng B.J.H. (2020). The Harvest Festival of Borneo under COVID-19 Pandemic. Literature on Indigenous Peoples. 43, 55-57. [in Chinese]
Ng B.J.H. (2020). Core and Margin: Shaping the Indigenousness of Sabah, Malaysia. Journal of History and Anthropology. 18(2), 97-139. [in Chinese]
Ng B.J.H. (2021). The Naming Systems of the “Half Chinese and Half Native” in Sabah, Malaysia. Journal of History and Anthropology. 19(2), 129-165. [in Chinese]
Ng B.J.H. (2022). Becoming “Native”: The Unkinded Cultural Identity of Malaysian Mixed-Blood Chinese Sino. Taiwan Journal of Anthropology. 20(1), 25-78. [in Chinese]
Ng B.J.H. (2022). The Localism under Multi-ethnic Society: The Cultural Output of Sabah Hakka Online Content. Bulletin of Taiwan Hakka Culture Development Center. 3, 7-26. [in Chinese]
Ng B.J.H. (2024). Who Are the Sino? Cultural Behaviour, Cultural Criteria and an Ethnic Group Formation in Sabah. Asian Culture 48: 73-94.
Education:
Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Engineering from Nanyang Technological University
Master’s degree in Anthropology from National Taiwan University
Contact Info
Email ID: bernard.ngjh@u.nus.edu