Organizer: UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies; UCLA Center for Chinese Studies
Type/Location: Hybrid / Los Angeles, CA
People walking on street during nighttime in a market in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | Image: Ravin Rau (@ravinrau) on Unsplash
Description:
Join the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies and the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies for a talk by Danny Wong Tze Ken, Professor of History and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Universiti Malaya, who will discuss the experiences of Chinese diasporas in Southeast Asia as well as their relations with China.
This public lecture is presented as part of the Winter 2026 Course on Asian Community: Border-Crossing Diasporic Formation, and Social Transformation in the Asian World, in conjunction with the UCLA Asia Pacific Center and made possible through generous support from the Eurasia Foundation (From Asia).
About the Speaker:
Danny Wong Tze Ken is Professor of History at the Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Universiti Malaya where he teaches history of Southeast Asia and History of China. His research interests include the Chinese in Malaysia, China’s relations with Southeast Asia and History of Sabah. He is currently Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Universiti Malaya. He was Director of Global Planning & Strategy Centre, Universiti Malaya and former Director of the Institute of China Studies and former Head of the Malaysian Chinese Research Centre at the same university.
He was Visiting Professor at Peking University (2018). He was also Visiting Yip (China) Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge University (2017-2018); Visiting Scholar at the Hakka College, National Central University, Taiwan (2017); and Visiting Professor at the Center for Integrated Area Studies, Kyoto University (2010). Professor Wong is a Member of the Board of Governors, Chinese Heritage Centre, Singapore and Council Member of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society Member of the Board of Trustees, SEASREP Foundation, and a former Chairman of the UNESCO Southeast Asian Shared-History Textbook Technical Committee.
Registration:
To attend the event in person, please register here.
To attend the event virtually, please register here.