She completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2008, with a thesis entitled, ‘Modernity, Popular Culture and Urban Life: Anglophone Asians in Colonial Singapore, 1920-1940’, the material upon which this chapter is based. Her publications include ‘Imperial subjects, straits citizens: Anglophone Asians and the struggle for political rights in inter-war Singapore’ in Paths Not Taken, edited by Michael Barr and Carl Trocki (Singapore: NUS Press, 2008), ‘The modern magic carpet: wireless radio in interwar colonial Singapore’ in Modern Asian Studies46(1) (Jan 2012) and ‘Nation, race, and language: discussing transnational identities in colonial Singapore, circa 1930’ Singapore’ in Modern Asian Studies46(2) (Mar 2012).