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Description About the Author The book uses three Indonesian concepts (merantau, malu, liar) to explain the mobility of migrants and tourists on...

Description This little book showcases some particularly Singaporean sights. Included are people, art, architecture, religion, flora and fauna,...

Description “Baba”, “Nonya”, “Peranakan” and “Straits Chinese” are terms that refer to the descendants of Chinese traders who settled in Southe...

Description Chinese Eminent Peoples, we look at the lives of more than 100 of the greatest and most famous achievers in all of Chinese history....

Description Praise About the Authors The history of Singapore’s Chinese community is carved in stone and wood: in the epigraphic record of 62 C...

Description This book is a record of Mr Tan Lark Sye's remarkable contribution to the founding of Nanyang University. Hailing from Jimei, Fujia...

Description About the Editor As Singapore enters its 50th year of independence, it is a time for introspection to look back at the successes an...

Description About the Author Singapore has been known as the Lion City since the late 13th century when it was discovered by Sumatran Prince Sa...

Initiated by H55’s Creative Director, Hanson Ho and produced in collaboration with researcher-writer Justin Zhuang, INDEPENDENCE is the first book ...

Description About the Authors The peoples of Southeast Asia have a long history of cultural commonalities. From Sumatra to Vietnam, the inhabit...

Description About the Author How should Asean leaders advance the Asean Economic Community? What obstacles does Asia face in managing US-China ...

Description Mr Lee Kuan Yew once famously said “when I project myself forward 100 years for Singapore, I cannot tell you that it will exist.” A...

Description Singapore has evolved from a developing country to a developed one, in only a few short decades. Its gross domestic product per cap...

Description Praise In this updated book, viewed by many as a definitive guide to Singapore-style diplomacy, former minister, diplomat and law d...

Description About the Series This book examines the crucial role of trade and investment in Singapore’s economy. Using globalisation as a backd...

Description About the Series Singapore Chronicles: Theatre surveys the beginnings, evolution and current state of the theatre in English, Manda...

Description About the Series Singapore is one of the most religiously diverse countries in the world. This feature gives multiple layers and co...

Description About the Series The conventional and dominant view of Singapore’s history is that it began with Stamford Raffles’ arrival on the i...

Description About the Series This book discusses the significance of multiracialism as one of the central components of nationhood in Singapore...

Description About the Series Good governance is at the heart of Singapore’s development, forged in the furnace of the early challenges that Sin...

Description About the Series Singapore has leveraged on its strategic location and open economy to become a global maritime and logistics centr...

Description About the Series Singapore is one of the premier financial centres in the world. It is one of the biggest markets for the trading o...

Description About the Series This book gives a concise account of the Singapore economy, beginning withits origins in the colonial era and cont...

Description About the Series Singapore Chronicles: Constitution traces the development of Singapore’s Constitution against the framework of Sin...

Description About the Series Singapore Chronicles: Central Provident Fund reflects the economic history and social development of Singapore. CP...

Description Noor Aishah Mohammad Salim was all of 26 years old when she became Singapore's First Lady in 1959 as the wife of Yusof Ishak, Singa...

Description C.V. Devan Nair, the son of a rubber plantation clerk, rose from humble beginnings to become an outstanding union leader, a Member ...

Description Every time we use a Singapore bank note, we see his face – the face of Yusof Ishak, the first President of Singapore. But did you k...

Description Praise About the Author Malaysiakini was founded in 1999 by Steven Gan and Premesh Chandran, two young Malaysians who met as overse...

Description Praise About the Author Routes: A Singaporean Memoir 1940-75 is both a personal and public memoir; it is personal as it records par...

Description About the Editor The essays published here began as a series of lectures commemorating the bicentennial of Thomas Stamford Raffles...

Description 'There are some books, which once read, you cannot get completely out of your mind. This is one of them. Whether you are just c...

Description We Are Singaporeans Volume 2 continues to feature inspiring illustrated interviews of Singaporeans who have carved out unconvention...

Description Reporter is an account of John McBeth’s 50-year journey through Asia, more than half of that time as a correspondent for the Far Ea...

Description About the Author The author of Wild Women Do on crimes committed by females in Singapore returns with a new collection on local cri...

Description About the Author The history of communism in Malaya (including Singapore) almost coincided with the rise and fall of communism worl...

Description Winner of the 2019 Singapore Book Awards Best Illustrated Non-Fiction Title Between the Lines: Early Advertising in Singapore welco...

Description Praise About the Author Through a collection of letters written to his best friend and to his father in England, and from his own p...

Description Praise About the Author The Changi Murals are a priceless part of our war heritage, holding deep emotional value, not just for ex-p...

Description Veteran journalist Clement Mesenas looks back on eight eventful days in 1971 when a group of young reporters staged a historic stri...

Description About the Authors Since the National Crime Prevention Council (NCPC) was first established in 1981, it has played a valuable role i...

Description About the Author Lee Kuan Yew: The Critical Years (1971-78) is a facsimile edition of Alex Josey's second masterful account of Sing...

Description About the Author David Marshall was part of the nationalist political struggle after WWII, the first elected chief minister during ...

Description About the Author A brilliant psychopath hiding under the veneer of an educated, charming persona, while plotting the perfect murde...

Description Praise About the Author The British military failure against the Japanese invasion of Singapore in 1942 is a well-documented and cl...

Description About the Author This important study of the shifting diplomatic efforts around the response to and resolution of the Vietnamese in...

Description About the Editor In this collection, public intellectuals and civil society activists discuss Singapore's public rhetoric about lib...