Areas of expertise
- Social Theory 160806
- Asian History 210302
Biography
After teaching in elite high schools in Hong Kong for 11 years, I shifted my career focus to academic research and received a PhD in history from the University of Melbourne in 2002. In 2003 I was appointed as a Visiting Fellow at the Contemporary China Centre in the Australian National University. In July 2005 I obtained a Visiting Fellowship in the Pacific & Asian History Division, ANU. In 2006, I was nominated for Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching of the ANU. From 2006-2008, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for East and Southeast Asian Studies in Lund University. At the present, I am on a Visiting Fellowship at the Department of Political and Social Change in the ANU.
Publications
- Cheng, S, 'Modern military technology in counterinsurgency warfare: the experience of the Nationalist army during the Chinese civil war.' Contemporary Asian Studies Working Paper Series, Centre for East and Southeast Asian Studies, Lund University, 2007
- Cheng, S 2009, 'Modern War on an Ancient Battlefield:The diffusion of American Military Technology and Ideas in the Chinese Civil War, 1946-1949', Modern China, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 38-64.
- Cheng, S 2005, 'Imagining China's Madrid in Manchuria', Modern China, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 72-114.
