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Claudine Ang

Humanities (History)

Associate Professor
Teaching Modules

Assoc Prof Ang teaches in the Literature and Humanities Great Works sequence and contributes courses to Historical Immersion. Her course offerings in the History Major span the regions of China and Southeast Asia, and include titles such as

  • Chinese Migrations to Southeast Asia
  • History and Culture of Southeast Asia
  • Ming Imperial Voyages, 1405–1433
  • Modern Vietnamese History and Literature
  • History of the Book in East and Southeast Asia
  • The Words and World of Lu Xun

Teaching Faculty

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Scott Cook

Humanities (Chinese Studies and History)

Professor
Tan Chin Tuan Professor of Chinese Studies
Head of Studies, History
Research Specialisations
  • Pre-imperial Excavated Manuscripts
  • Early Chinese Intellectual History
  • Pre-imperial Textual Formation
  • Early Chinese Musical Thought
Teaching Modules
  • Classical Chinese;Chinese Poetry
  • Chinese Prose;Chinese Tales of the Strange
  • The Historiography of Sima Qian
  • Kong Zi: The Man, the Myth, the Legend
  • The Annals of Lü Buwei, the First Book of Chinese Empire
  • Intellectual History of Warring States China
  • Philosophy and Political Thought 1
  • Literature and Humanities 1
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Taran Kang

Humanities (History)

Associate Professor
Teaching Modules

Since joining Yale-NUS, Associate Professor Kang has designed and taught a range of courses, including The Problem of Evil from the Enlightenment to Auschwitz, The History of History, History and Philosophy of the Scientific Revolution, and Nietzsche: An Untimely Thinker and His Times. In the Common Curriculum, he has taught both Philosophy and Political Thought (PPT) and Literature and Humanities (LH).

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