Awards/Honors

1. My book, The I Ching in Tokugawa Thought and Culture, was awarded as a "2000 Choice Outstanding Academic Book" by the American Library Association, and as a "Significant University Press Title, 1999-2000" by the Association of American University Presses in February 2001). It was nominated by the Association for Asian Studies for the John Hall Book Prize for the Best Academic Book in Japanese Studies/Korean Studies in June 2001.

2. Research Excellence Award 2006-07 (Nominated)

3. RGC Competitive Earmarked Research Grant, 2002-2003.

4. Exemplary Teaching Award 2003 (nominated).

5. Sumitomo Research Grant, 2002-2003.

6. NUS Research Grant, 2000-2001, Singapore.

7. Double Merit Increment for Excellent Research, June 2000, Dean of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore.

8. Sumitomo Research Grant, 1998-1999, Japan.

9. Princeton Fellowship Award, (September 1990-June 1996), Princeton University.

10. Doctoral Fellowship in Japanese Studies, (July 1993-September 1994), Japan Foundation, Japan.

11. Monbusho Scholarship, (10/85-4/88), Ministry of Education, Japan.

12. Kinomiya Yasuhiko Prize (first runner-up) for Best Paper on Sino-Japanese Cultural Interchange, (10/87), Japan.

13. First Class Honors and Top Student of Class 85, Chinese University of Hong Kong.