Dr Ying Xin Show is a Lecturer at the School of Culture, History and Language, and Deputy Director of the ANU Malaysia Institute in the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, the Australian National University. Her work explores the history and culture of migration, decolonisation, and the impact of the Cold War on Asian societies through literature and the arts.

She was awarded the Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) fellowship from 2023 to 2026, to undertake a book/documentary project examining the cultural history of Chinese literature in Malaya during the Cold War. Other projects include contemporary migrant workers' literature from Southeast Asia, lives and literature of radical Malayan women, Chinese diaspora history, and memory of the Left in Singapore and Malaysia, among others. 

She co-edited (with Ngoi Guat Peng) Revisiting Malaya: Uncovering Historical and Political Thoughts in Nusantara (2020) and authored the Chinese translation of Singapore writer Alfian Sa’at’s flash fiction collection Malay Sketches (2020,2022). She coordinated and copyedited the Chinese translation of Malaysian sociologist Syed Hussein Alatas's classic The Myth of the Lazy Native (2022).