Lion City: Singapore and the Invention of Modern Asia
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 | |
WEIGHT : 264 g
PRODUCT CATEGORY :
History & Archaeology
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