Professor LEE Cheuk Yin graduated from the University of Hong Kong with 1^st Class Honours degree and was a Swire Scholar and a Commonwealth Scholar and later received his PhD from the Australian National University.

He was the Head of the Department of Chinese at the National University of Singapore and the founding director of the Wan Boo Saw Research Centre for Chinese Culture and Sub-Dean of the Faculty of Art & Social Sciences. He was also visiting professor at Nanjing University, Hubei University and Wuhan University, an overseas academic advisor at the Institute of Literature and History of Fudan University China. He was senior professor at the Institute of Asian Studies at the University of Brunei and is currently Visiting Professor there and Honorary Fellow at the National University of Singapore and a member of the Singapore Presidential Council for Religious Harmony.

Professor Lee’s research interests include the history of Chinese thought, History of the Ming dynasty, Muslim activities in China, and traditional medicine. He is the editor-in-chief of the Overseas Chinese Studies (Guangxi Normal University Press) and Emotion and the State of Mind in East Asia (Leiden: Brill).

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