Por Heong Hong
Biographic Data
| ID | 740831 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Por Heong Hong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Por Heong |
| FAMILY NAME | Hong |
| SIGNATURE | HONG P H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universiti Sains Malaysia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8362-0202 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Governing aging through learning
As population aging accelerates, later-life education has become an increasingly visible policy response across aging societies. However, it is still more often understood as a welfare service or participatory good than as a political technology through which aging is governed. Drawing on Foucauldian discourse analysis, this article examines how national later-life education policy in China from 1982 to 2025 renders later life governable through …
Constructing Colonial Benevolence
Images of leprosy produced in British Malaya offer a way to explore connections \nbetween medical photography and colonial ideology. Using postcolonial history \nof medicine and critical visual studies, this article looks at the role of visual \nimages in the formulation of colonial policy on leprosy. Viewing photos of leprosy \nagainst the background of colonialism, the politics of segregation, and the global \nmigration of Chinese and Tamil lab…
What It Means to be a Muslimah
Reviewed by: What It Means to be a Muslimah: The Religious Orientations of Female Muslim Activists in Malaysia by Syed Imad Alatas Por Heong Hong What It Means to be a Muslimah: The Religious Orientations of Female Muslim Activists in Malaysia. By Syed Imad Alatas. Petaling Jaya: Gerakbudaya, 2022, 121 pp. ISBN: 9789670076072. In an increasingly polarized society, people at the two sides of the social divide tend to, even if unconsciously, view e…
The International Campaign Against Leprosy, 1948–2005Jo Robertson, The International Campaign Against Leprosy, 1948–2005 London
Governing the Covid-19 Pandemic in Malaysia
Drawing on a variety of material-mass and social media texts, government reports, and everyday observations-this article examines two interrelated dynamics in Malaysia in 2020-2021: the COVID-19 pandemic's unfolding local trajectory and the short-lived Perikatan Nasional (PN) coalition's governance capacity. Despite political instability resulting from this government's rise to power following internal political manouevrings, it managed to e ecti…
Visualization and Pandemic Governance in Covid-19 Hit Malaysia
From the temple murals in Bagan to the church fresco in Europe, visualization has \nbeen a vehicle of managing public health since time immemorial and it has a vital \nplace in the governance of the current pandemic too. As importantly, governance \nis a field of actions, practices and activities, of which visualization constitutes a significant \npart, carried out by state and non-state actors, health professionals and lay \npersons, with the ai…
Contested Colonial Metrological Sovereignty
Drawing on materials from the National Archives of Malaysia, newspapers, literature on historical metrology, and the colonial history of Malaya, this article weaves a social history of Malaya's colonial metrological reform by taking into account the roles of both European and Asian historical actors. Prior to the 1894 reform, people in Malaya used customary scales and weight units, which varied across districts, for commercial transactions. Initi…
Roundtable
Attained SCOPUS CiteScore of 1.4 in 2019. Attained Journal Citation Report (JCR) Journal Impact Factor of 0.717 in 2019.SCImago Journal and Country Rank (SJR) 2019 for the Asiatic Region: Ranked 1st in Political Science and International Relations; 1st in History; and 3rd in Arts and Humanities. Ranked 19th by Google Scholar Metrics 2020 in the category of “Asian Studies and History”
Tuberculosis — The Singapore Experience, 1867–2018
Reviewed by: Tuberculosis — The Singapore Experience, 1867–2018: Disease, Society and the State by Kah Seng Loh and Li Yang Hsu Por Heong Hong Tuberculosis — The Singapore Experience, 1867–2018: Disease, Society and the State, by Kah Seng Loh and Li Yang Hsu, New York, Routledge, 2020, 169 pp. ISBN 9780367354534 Diseases rarely become a subject of historical studies in the region. This book is no doubt an important contribution, not only to the g…
Family Narratives and Abandoned Monuments of the May 13 Riot in the Sungai Buloh Leprosarium
Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society - Volume 90, Part 2, No. 313, December 2017
Medical travel facilitators, private hospitals and international medical travel in assemblage
International medical travel may be viewed as an ‘assemblage’ of various components such as infrastructure, hospitals, finance, transport, technologies, staff, facilitators and patients. In this paper, we focus on the articulations of medical travel facilitators (MTFs) and private hospitals in producing international medical travel in the context of the neoliberalising processes that had led to the rise of corporate hospital care in Malaysia in t…
Regional circuits of international medical travel
Intra‐regional medical travel by patients from Indonesia to Penang in Malaysia is embedded in and facilitated by regional circuits. Although such movement is fuelled by dissatisfaction with the health‐care services offered in Indonesia, we argue that these contemporary movements for health care are also a continuation of existing exchanges for trade, education and cultural ties that have long existed. In the first part of the paper, we consider t…
Clinical Labor
Transnationality and Nationalism
Maurice Halbwachs proposed that the reading of the pasts is shaped by \ninterests and needs of the present. The surging interest in Wu Lien-Teh— \nPenang-born, Cambridge-trained plague fighter in China—across East and \nSoutheast Asia in post-SARS era appears to affirm Halbwachs' view. \nUtilising Halbwachs' presentist and constructionist approach, this article \nreads post-SARS memories of Wu Lien-Teh as a contested terrain where \nvarious histo…
Revisiting the Kuen Cheng High School dispute
By contextualizing the birth of modern Chinese women's education as well as KuenCheng Girls ' High School (KCGHS) in the ethno nationalistic movement in pre-independence years, and revisiting the dispute over changing KCGHS into a co-education establishment in the Chinese education movement background in the post-independence era, this paper illustrates the paradox of Chinese ethno nationalism, that took expression in modernization since its ince…
Medical travel facilitators, private hospitals and international medical travel in assemblage
International medical travel may be viewed as an ‘assemblage’ of various components such as infrastructure, hospitals, finance, transport, technologies, staff, facilitators and patients. In this paper, we focus on the articulations of medical travel facilitators (MTFs) and private hospitals in producing international medical travel in the context of the neoliberalising processes that had led to the rise of corporate hospital care in Malaysia in t…
Regional circuits of international medical travel
Intra‐regional medical travel by patients from Indonesia to Penang in Malaysia is embedded in and facilitated by regional circuits. Although such movement is fuelled by dissatisfaction with the health‐care services offered in Indonesia, we argue that these contemporary movements for health care are also a continuation of existing exchanges for trade, education and cultural ties that have long existed. In the first part of the paper, we consider t…
Roundtable
Attained SCOPUS CiteScore of 1.4 in 2019. Attained Journal Citation Report (JCR) Journal Impact Factor of 0.717 in 2019.SCImago Journal and Country Rank (SJR) 2019 for the Asiatic Region: Ranked 1st in Political Science and International Relations; 1st in History; and 3rd in Arts and Humanities. Ranked 19th by Google Scholar Metrics 2020 in the category of “Asian Studies and History”
Governing the Covid-19 Pandemic in Malaysia
Drawing on a variety of material-mass and social media texts, government reports, and everyday observations-this article examines two interrelated dynamics in Malaysia in 2020-2021: the COVID-19 pandemic's unfolding local trajectory and the short-lived Perikatan Nasional (PN) coalition's governance capacity. Despite political instability resulting from this government's rise to power following internal political manouevrings, it managed to e ecti…
Transnationality and Nationalism
Maurice Halbwachs proposed that the reading of the pasts is shaped by \ninterests and needs of the present. The surging interest in Wu Lien-Teh— \nPenang-born, Cambridge-trained plague fighter in China—across East and \nSoutheast Asia in post-SARS era appears to affirm Halbwachs' view. \nUtilising Halbwachs' presentist and constructionist approach, this article \nreads post-SARS memories of Wu Lien-Teh as a contested terrain where \nvarious histo…
Revisiting the Kuen Cheng High School dispute
By contextualizing the birth of modern Chinese women's education as well as KuenCheng Girls ' High School (KCGHS) in the ethno nationalistic movement in pre-independence years, and revisiting the dispute over changing KCGHS into a co-education establishment in the Chinese education movement background in the post-independence era, this paper illustrates the paradox of Chinese ethno nationalism, that took expression in modernization since its ince…
Clinical Labor
Transnationality and Nationalism
Maurice Halbwachs proposed that the reading of the pasts is shaped by \ninterests and needs of the present. The surging interest in Wu Lien-Teh— \nPenang-born, Cambridge-trained plague fighter in China—across East and \nSoutheast Asia in post-SARS era appears to affirm Halbwachs' view. \nUtilising Halbwachs' presentist and constructionist approach, this article \nreads post-SARS memories of Wu Lien-Teh as a contested terrain where \nvarious histo…
Family Narratives and Abandoned Monuments of the May 13 Riot in the Sungai Buloh Leprosarium
Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society - Volume 90, Part 2, No. 313, December 2017
Medical travel facilitators, private hospitals and international medical travel in assemblage
International medical travel may be viewed as an ‘assemblage’ of various components such as infrastructure, hospitals, finance, transport, technologies, staff, facilitators and patients. In this paper, we focus on the articulations of medical travel facilitators (MTFs) and private hospitals in producing international medical travel in the context of the neoliberalising processes that had led to the rise of corporate hospital care in Malaysia in t…
Regional circuits of international medical travel
Intra‐regional medical travel by patients from Indonesia to Penang in Malaysia is embedded in and facilitated by regional circuits. Although such movement is fuelled by dissatisfaction with the health‐care services offered in Indonesia, we argue that these contemporary movements for health care are also a continuation of existing exchanges for trade, education and cultural ties that have long existed. In the first part of the paper, we consider t…
Tuberculosis — The Singapore Experience, 1867–2018
Reviewed by: Tuberculosis — The Singapore Experience, 1867–2018: Disease, Society and the State by Kah Seng Loh and Li Yang Hsu Por Heong Hong Tuberculosis — The Singapore Experience, 1867–2018: Disease, Society and the State, by Kah Seng Loh and Li Yang Hsu, New York, Routledge, 2020, 169 pp. ISBN 9780367354534 Diseases rarely become a subject of historical studies in the region. This book is no doubt an important contribution, not only to the g…
Roundtable
Attained SCOPUS CiteScore of 1.4 in 2019. Attained Journal Citation Report (JCR) Journal Impact Factor of 0.717 in 2019.SCImago Journal and Country Rank (SJR) 2019 for the Asiatic Region: Ranked 1st in Political Science and International Relations; 1st in History; and 3rd in Arts and Humanities. Ranked 19th by Google Scholar Metrics 2020 in the category of “Asian Studies and History”
Visualization and Pandemic Governance in Covid-19 Hit Malaysia
From the temple murals in Bagan to the church fresco in Europe, visualization has \nbeen a vehicle of managing public health since time immemorial and it has a vital \nplace in the governance of the current pandemic too. As importantly, governance \nis a field of actions, practices and activities, of which visualization constitutes a significant \npart, carried out by state and non-state actors, health professionals and lay \npersons, with the ai…
Contested Colonial Metrological Sovereignty
Drawing on materials from the National Archives of Malaysia, newspapers, literature on historical metrology, and the colonial history of Malaya, this article weaves a social history of Malaya's colonial metrological reform by taking into account the roles of both European and Asian historical actors. Prior to the 1894 reform, people in Malaya used customary scales and weight units, which varied across districts, for commercial transactions. Initi…
Constructing Colonial Benevolence
Images of leprosy produced in British Malaya offer a way to explore connections \nbetween medical photography and colonial ideology. Using postcolonial history \nof medicine and critical visual studies, this article looks at the role of visual \nimages in the formulation of colonial policy on leprosy. Viewing photos of leprosy \nagainst the background of colonialism, the politics of segregation, and the global \nmigration of Chinese and Tamil lab…
What It Means to be a Muslimah
Reviewed by: What It Means to be a Muslimah: The Religious Orientations of Female Muslim Activists in Malaysia by Syed Imad Alatas Por Heong Hong What It Means to be a Muslimah: The Religious Orientations of Female Muslim Activists in Malaysia. By Syed Imad Alatas. Petaling Jaya: Gerakbudaya, 2022, 121 pp. ISBN: 9789670076072. In an increasingly polarized society, people at the two sides of the social divide tend to, even if unconsciously, view e…
The International Campaign Against Leprosy, 1948–2005Jo Robertson, The International Campaign Against Leprosy, 1948–2005 London
Governing the Covid-19 Pandemic in Malaysia
Drawing on a variety of material-mass and social media texts, government reports, and everyday observations-this article examines two interrelated dynamics in Malaysia in 2020-2021: the COVID-19 pandemic's unfolding local trajectory and the short-lived Perikatan Nasional (PN) coalition's governance capacity. Despite political instability resulting from this government's rise to power following internal political manouevrings, it managed to e ecti…
Governing aging through learning
As population aging accelerates, later-life education has become an increasingly visible policy response across aging societies. However, it is still more often understood as a welfare service or participatory good than as a political technology through which aging is governed. Drawing on Foucauldian discourse analysis, this article examines how national later-life education policy in China from 1982 to 2025 renders later life governable through …
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