Soon-Tzu has edited a number of award-winning books, specialising in works on Southeast Asian architecture and history. His editorial expertise includes structural and content editing, proofreading and copyediting, and detailed indexing of academic monographs.
Together with A/Prof. Amanda Achmadi and Prof. Paul Walker, he co-edited Architectural Encounters in Asia-Pacific: Built Traces of Intercolonial Trade, Industry and Labour, 1800s-1950s (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2024).
Other titles he has worked on include Yeo Kang Shua’s Divine Custody: A History of Singapore’s Oldest Teochew Temple (NUS Press, 2021), Jon S.H. Lim’s The Penang House and the Straits Architect 1887-1941 (Areca Books, 2015), Ruth Iversen Rollitt’s Iversen: Architect of Ipoh and Modern Malaya (Areca Books, 2015), and Khoo Salma Nasution’s The Chulia in Penang: Patronage and Place-Making around the Kapitan Kling Mosque, 1786-1957 (Areca Books, 2014).
Dr Soon-Tzu Speechley 