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Lion City: Singapore and the Invention of Modern Asia

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Lion City tells the extraordinary story 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.

Jeevan Vasagar, former Singapore correspondent for the Financial Times, masterfully takes us through the intricate history, present and future of this unique diamond-shaped island one degree north of the equator, where new and old have remained connected. Lion City is a personal, insightful and essential guide to the city, and how its remarkable rise is shaping East Asia and the rest of the world.

PRODUCT DETAILS :

ISBN : 9780349144481
BY (AUTHOR) Vasagar, Jeevan
PUBLISHER : Little, Brown Book Group PUBLICATION DATE : September 01, 2022
COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : United Kingdom IMPRINT : Abacus
LANGUAGE : English AGE : General
PRODUCT FORM : Paperback / softback

DIMENSION : 196 mm x 124 mm
WEIGHT : 264 g

PRODUCT CATEGORY :
History & Archaeology

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