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Singapore: A Biography takes you there - those critical moments in the island's past, as captured through the personal accounts of people who actually lived through them. Encounter violent unrest on the city's streets, the jostling down its corridors of power, the high life of its up-and-coming elites, and the daily struggles of existence that lay beyond the its five-foot ways, in an epic drama that stretches back over seven centuries.

Grounded in scholarship yet fired by the imagination, this book tells a new Singapore story - one more dramatic, complex and engrossing that you might expect.
Mark Ravinder Frost studied history at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and has published articles on Asian history in journals such as Modern Asian Studies and the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. In addition to Singapore: A Biography, he is the author of the forthcoming Dreams of Other Empires: The Cosmopolitan Moment in the Indian Ocean World, 1870–1920. In Singapore, he has been involved in various film and exhibition projects as screenwriter, content designer and producer. Between 2005 and 2007, he worked as Content Director and Senior Scriptwriter for the National Museum of Singapore's new Singapore History Gallery. He was appointed Research Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong in 2009.

Yu-Mei Balasingamchow was born and raised in Singapore, before she went to the United States to study English and History at Northwestern University. Before writing full-time, she was an English teacher at a local junior college and subsequently worked at the Ministry of Education. In 2006, she was a senior researcher and script editor for the Singapore History Gallery and Living Galleries of the National Museum of Singapore. She is currently based in Singapore, where she writes about history, travel and culture in Asia.

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Singapore: A Biography