Background on Christine Suchen Lim and Wang Gungwu
Christine Suchen Lim is the first author to be awarded the Singapore Literature Prize for her novel, Fistful of Colours. She was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in 1997 to attend the University of Iowa's international writers' programme. She was its international writer-in-residence in 2000, and in 2003 was the writer-in-residence at the University of Western Australia.
Wang Gungwu is the Director of the East Asian Institute, Faculty Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the National University of Singapore, and Emeritus Professor of the Australian National University, Canberra. He has taught at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur and at the Australian National University, and served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong. Wang is an internationally recognised authority on the Chinese overseas and has written extensively on the subject.
