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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
I wish I could have read this when I lived in Singapore,
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This review is from: Singapore's Authoritarian Capitalism, Asian Values, Free Market Illusions and Political Dependency (Mass Market Paperback)
This was the book I needed while living Singapore in the late nineteen nineties. I so much wanted to know more about the frankly rather sinister government I was temporarily living under(ultra-efficient rubbish collection, local people too afraid to even discuss politics). But there was nothing available on the shelves except hagiographical titles about Singapore's ruler, Lee Kuan Yew, or Harry Lee. (I remember one entitled What If There Had Been No Lee Kuan Yew?) Lingle was a professor at Singapore U and was tried and found guilty in absentia by S'pore's kangaroo courts for published comments in the Herald Tribune.This book is essential for an understanding of Singapore. It is the "twin" recommended to be read along side (or instead of) Harry Lee Kuan Yew's autiobigraphical junk. Another good book for understanding S'pore is Francis T. Seow's A Dissident in Lee Kuan Yew's Prison (To Catch a Tartar). Anyone planning to visit or live in S'pore should read this (even from the armchair). |
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Singapore's Authoritarian Capitalism, Asian Values, Free Market Illusions and Political Dependency by Christopher Lingle (Mass Market Paperback - December 1, 1996)
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