Education

PhD (Malaya), MA (Malaya), BA (Hons.) (Malaya)

Work Experience

Senior Professor, Former Dean of Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Universiti Malaya (2018-2025), former Director, Global Planning & Strategy Centre, Universiti Malaya (2012-2018)

Teaching

Supervising PhD Students and teach courses: Nationalism in Southeast Asia, Early History of Southeast Asia, History of Modern China

Research Projects

1) History of Mahayana Buddhism in Southeast Asia

2) Memories and Monuments of World War Two in Southeast Asia

Publications

Books:

1. Danny Wong Tze Ken. Murder Most Foul: The Kalabakan Massacre 1890. (Kuala Lumpur: Universiti Malaya Press), 2025

2. Yeoh Yin Yin and Danny Wong Tze Ken (eds.). Sedang: Chinese Hakka Community in a Changing Village. (Petaling Jaya: SIRD/Gerak Budaya), 2025.

3. James Sarda & Danny Wong (eds.), What Sabahans Should Know: Patel’s Views on Issues and Controversies, (Kota Kinabalu: CP Forum), 2025.

4. Wu Xiaoan & Danny Wong Tze Ken (eds.). New Perspectives on Chinese Studies in Malaysia and Singapore, (Petaling Jaya: Gerakbudaya), 2024.

5. Danny Wong Tze Ken & Stella Moo-Tan (eds.), The Diaries of Alexander Rankin Johnstone Dunlop, 1897-1901, (Kota Kinabalu: Sabah State Archives (Arkib Negeri Sabah), 2023.

6. Halimah Said, Danny Wong Tze Ken & S. Sivachandralingam & (eds), Roots Living Heritage, (Kuala Lumpur: Universiti Malaya Press), 2022.

7. Danny Wong Tze Ken, The Kinabalu Guerrillas and the Api Uprising 1943, (Trans. Agnes Chung), (Taipei: National Yang Ming-Chiao Tung University Press & Hakka Development Center), 2021.

8. Danny Wong Tze Ken, Lee Kam Hing (eds.) Wang Gungwu and Malaysia, (Kuala Lumpur: University of Malaya Press), 2021. (*Awarded National Book Award 2022).

9. Danny Wong Tze Ken, Tan Miau Ing, Por Heong Hong & Tung Wan Qing,  Lead and Grow: 115 Years of Kuala Lumpur-Selangor Chinese Chamber of Commerce, (Kuala Lumpur: University of Malaya Press), 2021.

10. Danny Wong Tze Ken, Tan Miau Ing, Por Heong Hong, Tung Wan Qing, Lim Han Cong, 《領航：雪隆中華總商會115周年》（Lead and Grow: 115 Years of Kuala Lumpur-Selangor Chinese Chamber of Commerce）,  (Kuala Lumpur: University of Malaya Press), 2021.

11. Danny Wong Tze Ken, 《神山遊擊隊與1943年亞庇起義》 (The Kinabalu Guerrillas and the Api Uprising 1943) (Trans. Agnes Chung), (Kota Kinabalu: Opus Publications in Association with University of Malaya Press), 2020.

Chapters:

1. Danny Wong Tze Ken, Singapore in the History of North Borneo: An Examination of Singapore as a Regional Hub, in Yow Chuen How, Liu Hong and Zhang Huimei (eds), Singapore as a Regional Hub, (London: Routledge).

2. Danny Wong Tze Ken, Taking Stock of Ten Years of BRI Projects in Malaysia in  Yos Santasombat & Lee Kian Cheng (eds.) The Impact of China’s Belt and Road initiative in Southeast Asia: Evaluating Risks and Benefits. (Singapore: Springer Nature), 2025, pp. 69-90.

3. Danny Wong Tze Ken, Making Sense of BRI in Malaysia: Negotiating Volatile Political Situations, in Yos Santasombat. Lee Kian Cheng & Decha  Tangseefa (eds.), China’s BRI in Southeast Asia: Concepts and Methodologies. (Kyoto: Kyoto University Press), 2025, pp. 51-76.

4. Danny Wong Tze Ken.  Chinese Business Elites and Revenue Farming in British North Borneo, in Julia T. Martinez, Claire Lowrie & Greg Benton (eds.), Chinese Colonial Entanglements: Commodities and Traders in the Southern Asia Pacific, 1880-1950, (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press), 2024, pp. 89-109.

5. Danny Wong Tze Ken.  Dedicated to the World of Law Enforcement, in Halimah Mohd Said et al. (eds.) Fathers and their Wisdom by Sons and Daughters, (Kuala Lumpur: Universiti Malaya Press), 2024, pp. 59-70.

6. Danny Wong Tze Ken, On Being Hakka (Hakka as a Dialect Group) in Malaysia, in Chang Wei An and Hironao Kawai (eds.), Theories of Ethnicity and Hakka Studies, (Taipei: National Yang Ming Jiao Tung Unversity Press),  2023, pp. 225-252.

7. Danny Wong Tze Ken, Another Type of Hakka:  The Hakka Christians of Malaysia, in Chou Jing Hung and Chang Han-Pi (Eds.), The Multi-Perspectives of Global Hakka Studies. (Taipei: Global Hakka Studies & Chuliu Publisher), 2023, pp. 180-201.

8. Danny Wong Tze Ken, Hakka Dialect Identity and Chinese Identity in Malaysia, in Jayeel Cornelio & Volker Grabowsky (eds.), Regional Identities in Southeast Asia, Contemporary Challenges, Historical Fractures, (Bangkok: Silkworm Books & Ecole Francaise d’Extreme-Orient), 2023, pp. 55-74.

9. Danny Wong Tze Ken, Research and Works on the History of the Chinese in Malaysia: Review and Development, in Chai Yuan-Lin & Ip Sian-Chin (eds), Trans-disciplinary Perspectives of the Culture of the Chinese in Southeast Asia: Historical Perspectives, (Taipei: National Cheng Chi University Press), 2022, pp. 17-54. 黃子堅，馬來西亞華人歷史的研究著作：回顧近期學術發展與現狀， 收在蔡源林與葉《跨界多元視域下的東南亞華人文化：歷史編》,台北：國立政治大學出版社， 2022，pp. 17-54.

10. Danny Wong Tze Ken, New Transnational Chinese Migrants in an Evolving Malaysia, in Leo Suryadinata & Benjamin Loh (eds.). Rising China and New Chinese Migrants in Southeast Asia, (Singapore: ISEAS-Yusoff Ishak Institute), 2022, pp. 162-182.

11. Danny Wong Tze Ken, Extracts from Kinabalu Guerrillas and the 1943 Jesselton Uprising, in David Wang Dewei & Ko Hee Qian (eds), Readings from Nanyang: Literature, Sea & Islands, (Taipei: Mai Tian Press), 2022, pp. 583-589.

12. Danny Wong Tze Ken, Transnational Chinese in Malaysia, in Yos Santasombat (ed.), Transnational Chinese Diaspora in Southeast Asia: Case Studies from Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore, Singapore: Springer, 2020, pp. 105-124.

13. Danny Wong Tze Ken, Onn Ja’afar dan Ho Chi Minh: Satu Perbincangan Kehidupan Perjuangan dalam Buangan, in Zulkanain Abdul Rahman dan Abu Hanifah (eds.), Budiman: Kuala Lumpur: Penerbit Universiti Malaya, 2022, pp. 237-250.

14. Danny Wong Tze Ken & Vivien Wong, Chinese Schools in Malaysia: Between Ethnic Aspirations and the Challenges of Forging A National Education, in Yow Chuen How and Qu Yingji (eds.) The Cultural Legacies of Chinese Schools in Singapore and Malaysia, London: Routledge, 2021, pp. 121-147.

15. Danny Wong Tze Ken, Sustaining the Hakka Chinese Identity in Sabah: The Role of the Basel Church, in Rajah Rasiah, Azirah Hashim, Jatswan S. Sidhu (eds.), Contesting Malaysia’s Integration into the World Economy, Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, pp. 201-217

16. Danny Wong Tze Ken, Hakka Studies in Malaysia: Recent Development, in Chang Wei An & Chien Mei Ling (eds), The Development of Global Hakka Studies, Taipei: National Yang Ming ChiaoTung University Press, 2021, pp. 61-86.

17. Chang Wei An, Chang Hanbi, Danny Wong Tze Ken, Who Needs Liu Shanbang: a Reconstruction of the Bau Chinese Republic in Sarawak, in Chang Hanbi & Yang Hao (eds), An Era of Righteousness and Progress: Professor Michael Hsiao Ching Hwang and Asia’s New Taiwan, Taipei: Jiliu Books, 2020, pp.249-268. (In Chinese)

Articles

1. Danny Wong Tze Ken, Yeoh Yin Yin, Lai Chin Ting. (2025). Individuality and Community: Ethical Consciousness in Tie Ning’s Clumsy Flower from a Historical Perspective, Interdisciplinary Studies of Literatures. Vol. 9, No. 3, 602-614. (WOS-A&HCI)

2.  Danny Wong Tze Ken. (2025). Donald Stephens and Sabah’s Response towards Singapore Separation, Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. 98, Part 1, No. 327:70-90. (Scopus)

3. Su Qiuyang, Danny Wong Tze Ken, Tan Miau Ing. (2025). Qing Imperial Physician Li Jun’s Lens: Chinese Medicine in Late 19 Century Penang, Chinese Medicine and Culture, First online publication: 25 August 2025 (Scopus)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MC9.0000000000000161

4. Li, Xiang, Siew Kian Ong, and Danny Tze Ken Wong. (2025). Mechanisms of Creativity: Interpretive Malleability in Guan Di Worship on the West Coast of Peninsular Malaysia. Religions,  16:1303. (WOS-SSCI)

https://doi.org/10.3390/ rel16101303

5. Dunita Nabila A Rahimin & Danny Wong Tze Ken. (2025).  “Malaysia’s Response to

the Cambodian Conflict, 1978-1991”, Jebat: Malaysian Journal of History, Politics & Strategic Studies, 52(2): 256-276

6. Dunita Nabila A Rahimin & Danny Wong Tze Ken. (2025). “Thailand-Malaysia Border: A Strategic Route for Illicit Drug Trade from the Golden Triangle”,  Asian Journal of Environment, History and Heritage. 9 (1), 59-76.

7. Eddie A. Julius dan Danny Wong Tze Ken. (2025). Hubungan Komuniti Murut di Borneo Utara dengan Peribumi dari Wilayah Luar sebelum Tahun 1963, MANU, 36 (1): 84-111.

8. Dunita Nabila A Rahimin & Danny Wong Tze Ken (2024),“The Thai Malay Muslim Exodus of 1981: A Malaysian Dilemma”. SEJARAH. 33(1): 138-154.

9. Eddie A. Julius dan Danny Wong Tze Ken. (2024). Transformasi Sistem Adat dan Kehakiman Murut Sewaktu Pemerintahan Syarikat Borneo Utara British, SEJARAH. Vol. 33, No. (2): 81-103.

10. Eddie A. Julius dan Danny Wong Tze Ken. (2024). Transformasi Sistem Adat dan Kehakiman Murut Sewaktu Pemerintahan Syarikat Borneo Utara British, SEJARAH. Vol. 33, No. (2): 81-103.

11. Lee Kam Hing, Danny Wong Tze Ken, Tan Miau Ing. Cheong Yoke Choy (1873–1958): A Grandson Looks Back, Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies, 61 (1), 2024: 15-24. (Scopus)

12. Lin Lan & Danny Wong Tze Ken. A Paratextual Analysis of Lim Boon Keng’s Translation of Li Sao, Malaysian Journal of Chinese Studies, 13 (1) 2024: 23-36.

13. Dunita Nabila Binti A. Rahimin & Danny Wong Tze Ken. The Thai Malay Muslim Exodus of 1981: A Malaysian Dilemma, Sejarah: Journal of the History Department, Universiti Malaya, Vol. 33 (1) June 2024: 138-154.

14. Danny Wong Tze Ken, Discourse on History in Malaysian Public Spheres, Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (JMBRAS), Vol. 96, Part 1. Number 324, 2023 pp. 1-19. (Scopus)

15. Danny Wong Tze Ken, Three Skulls from Sabah in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (JMBRAS), Vol. 95, Part 1, Number 322, 2022, pp. 35-50. (Scopus)

16. Danny Wong Tze Ken, Writing on the Chinese in Malaysia: New Direction in Bridging the Language Divide, Southeast Asian Studies: A Quarterly Journal of Translation, No. 1, 2022, pp. 69-80.

17. Hong Shanshan, Rosila Bee Mohd Hussain, Danny Wong Tze Ken, Social Work Organizations’ Role in the Social Capital Building in China: A Case Study Among Rural Migrant Workers in Xiamen , Global Social Welfare, (doi.org/10.1007/s40609-021-00207-6 ) (Scopus)

18. Wang Zhaoyuan, Danny Wong Tze Ken, Welyne Jehom, The Alien Communal Patron Deity: a comparative study of the Datuk Gong worship among Chinese communities in Malaysia, Indonesia and the Malay World, Vol. 48,  No. 141, 2000, pp. 206-224. (WoS & Scopus)

Awards and Honors

1) Member of the National Historians Council- appointment By Hon. Prime Minister(1 May 2025-31 May 2027)

2) Fellow of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia (FASc) 27 April 2023

3) National Book Award 2022, for Best General Book – for Wang Gungwu and Malaysia (with Lee Kam Hing, Universiti Malaya Press, 2021) (20 August 2022)

4) National Academic Book Publisher Council (MAPIM) Prize, Runner-Up, for Best Social Science Book, for One Crowded Moment of Glory (Universiti  Malaya Press, 2019) (2021)

5) Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, United Kingdom (Since 11 Nov 2021)

6) National Book Award 2019, for Best History Book (Conflict and Struggle Category) – for One Crowded Moment of Glory  (Universiti Malaya Press 2019) (1 April 2019)

7) Visiting Professor, Department of History, Peking University, China (1 July-30 Sept 2018)

8) Panglima Gemilang Darjah Kinabalu (PGDK) award by His Excellency, Head of State of Sabah, which carries the title, “Datuk” (7 October 2017)

9) Visiting Yip (China) Fellow, Magdalene College, Cambridge University, United Kingdom (2 October 2017 to 2 May 2018)