Chinese in Brunei

Ooi Keat Gin is Professor of the Modern History of Brunei/Borneo at the Academy of Brunei Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei, and Visiting Professor of the Korean Institute of ASEAN Studies, Busan University of Foreign Studies, Busan, South Korea. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, London, his recent book-length works include Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Brunei (2023, co-edited with Victor T. King), Literature of Brunei: History, Culture, and Challenges (2025, co-edited with Kathrina Mohd Daud, Routledge), Women’s Agency and the State in Contemporary Brunei (2025, co-edited with Norainie Ahmad, Routledge), The Handbook of Southeast Asian Studies: Pioneers and Critical Thinkers. Parts I and II (2024, co-authored with Victor T. King, Springer), Bao Ninh’s Contribution to Vietnamese and World Literature: The Sorrow of War and His Short Stories (2025, co-authored with Cao Kim Lan, Routledge), Brunei and the British in the Nineteenth Century: Of a Seer-Poet, an Adventurer, and the Near Extinction of an Ancient Malay Sultanate (2026, author, Routledge).

• 0.Introduction. 1.The Chinese in Brunei: From Ong Sum Ping to Hua Ho Department Store. 2.The Eclectic World of Beliefs of the Chinese in Brunei. 3.Evolution of Chinese Cultural Traditions and Socioeconomic Goals in Brunei: A Generational Perspective. 4.The Emerging Influence of Mandarin: The catalyst for the critically endangered state of Chinese dialects in Brunei? 5.Cultural Transmission through Language Teaching: Chinese Education in Brunei Darussalam. 6.Stories from the Chinese Community in Brunei Darussalam (2023): A Production of an Oral History Text as Narrative Genre for Articulating Lived Experiences. 7.Chinese image in traditional Bruneian literary texts: AMPUAN HAJI BRAHIM. 8.Topographical Writing by Bruneian Chinese Writers. 9.Hierarchies of Identity and Non-Belonging: The Unimagined Community in K. H. Lim’s Written in Black. 10.Rethinking Subjectivity in Anglophone Chinese Bruneian Poetry.