Lion City by Jeevan Vasagar (.ePUB)
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Lion City: Singapore and the Invention of Modern Asia by Jeevan Vasagar
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Overview: A compelling, illuminating and evocative history of Singapore—the world’s most successful city-state.
In 1965, Singapore’s GDP per capita was on a par with Jordan. Now it has outstripped Japan. After the Second World War and a sudden rupture with newly formed Malaysia, Singapore found itself independent – and facing a crisis. It took the bloody-minded determination and vision of Lee Kuan Yew, its founding premier, to take a small island of diverse ethnic groups with a fragile economy and hostile neighbours and meld it into Asia’s first globalised city.
Lion City examines the different faces of Singaporean life – from education and health to art, politics and demographic challenges – and reveals how in just half a century, Lee forged a country with a buoyant economy and distinctive identity. It explores the darker side of how this was achieved too; through authoritarian control that led to it being dubbed ‘Disneyland with the death penalty’.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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