Boyang Hou
Boyang Hou is a PhD Candidate in History at Churchill College, University of Cambridge. His PhD project examines the political history of ethnic Chinese communities in Britain in the period 1919-1950s. Boyang is supervised by Dr. Geraint Thomas, and he is generously funded by a joint scholarship from the Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC DTP and Churchill College. He is also the recipient of an honorary Trinity-Henry Barlow scholarship.
Boyang completed his BA in History at Wolfson College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a Double First Class with Distinction in 2022. He was then awarded the Fitzwilliam College Hong Leong-Lee Kuan Yew scholarship for his MPhil in World History at Cambridge. His research focused on the Chinese Protectorate, a British colonial institution in Singapore, and he graduated with a Distinction in 2024.
Boyang serves as a Co-Convenor of the World History Workshop for the 2024-25 academic year. He is also a current History Faculty Postgraduate Representative, and previously served as the World History MPhil Course Representative in the 2023-2024 academic year.
My work has been broadly inspired by my interest in the history of modern Britain within a global and imperial context. In particular, my past and current research focuses on the interactions between overseas Chinese communities and British imperial networks in the 20th century. My PhD research examines the political history of ethnic Chinese communities in Britain during the period from 1919 to the 1950s. My earlier project examined the relationship between the British colonial state and overseas Chinese communities in Singapore, focusing on the Chinese Protectorate institution.
'The British Chinese Protectorate in Singapore, 1919–1958', World History Workshop, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, April 2024.
'The Development of the Chinese Protectorate in Singapore, 1900–1950', History Graduate Research Day, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, April 2024.