Singapore: The Unexpected NationThis book deals with Singapore's transition from a British Crown Colony to a state in the Federation of Malaysia, and expulsion from the Federation to become a separate independent nation. For the leaders of Singapore's PAP Government, Malaysia was a traumatic experience. Yet, but for it, they might never have found the resolve and the secret of building this extraordinary nation, this nation based on Singapore alone that they and an entire generation had once believed an impossibility. This story of nation-building deals with topics on national (army) service, economic development, education in schools and in universities, housing and home ownership. It deals also with issues of ethnicity and national identity in the context of challenges from within and without, in the latter case from globalization and global Islamism. |
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The Unexpected Nation Edwin Lee. CHAPTER FOUR. The. Accidental. Chief. Minister. Malayan. Repercussions. on. Singapore. The Alliance Party made the winning of independence the ... minister of. 99 Table of Contents: 4. The Accidental Chief ...
The Unexpected Nation Edwin Lee. CHAPTER FOUR. The. Accidental. Chief. Minister. Malayan. Repercussions. on. Singapore. The Alliance Party made the winning of independence the ... minister of. 99 Table of Contents: 4. The Accidental Chief ...
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... minister (a title which was changed to prime minister on independence). The colonial secretary, Alan Lennox— Boyd, came for the first meeting of the new legislative council. He repeated to the Tunku a complaint from the high ...
... minister (a title which was changed to prime minister on independence). The colonial secretary, Alan Lennox— Boyd, came for the first meeting of the new legislative council. He repeated to the Tunku a complaint from the high ...
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... Minister. The British had set Singapore on a very gradual course politically. They stretched the provision of elected ... minister with a departmental portfolio. The Rendel Constitution. departments, and one of them would serve as chief ...
... Minister. The British had set Singapore on a very gradual course politically. They stretched the provision of elected ... minister with a departmental portfolio. The Rendel Constitution. departments, and one of them would serve as chief ...
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... minister, to make a request to him to call out the troops, if necessary. But Marshall refused. He was not privy to the security information which the governor had, and he held to the position that it was the governor's business, and not ...
... minister, to make a request to him to call out the troops, if necessary. But Marshall refused. He was not privy to the security information which the governor had, and he held to the position that it was the governor's business, and not ...
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... minister, Marshall then had to fulfil his part of the bargain, and he attached a proviso that they should not take ... Minister for Education, Lim Yew Hock, Minister for Labour, Abdul Hamid bin Haji Jumat, Minister for Local Government ...
... minister, Marshall then had to fulfil his part of the bargain, and he attached a proviso that they should not take ... Minister for Education, Lim Yew Hock, Minister for Labour, Abdul Hamid bin Haji Jumat, Minister for Local Government ...
Contents
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5 The Terminal Chief Minister | 131 |
6 The Embattled Prime Minister | 159 |
7 Merger Contesting Ownership and Principles | 189 |
8 Terms of Disendearment | 217 |
14 University and Nation | 359 |
15 Tohs NationBuilding Thrust | 387 |
16 Nantah Between Community and Nation | 417 |
17 SelfRenewal Talents for a Tough Act | 453 |
18 The Consensual Prime Minister | 487 |
19 Confucianism Christianity Chineseness | 533 |
20 Singapore Dreams Singapore Dilemmas | 559 |
21 The Hyphenated Singaporean | 597 |
9 Dare to be Equal | 239 |
10 The Way to Survive | 265 |
11 National Service The Price of Independence | 281 |
12 Politics of Education | 295 |
13 Home Ownership National Stability and the New Middle Classes | 323 |
22 The Unexpected Nation | 633 |
Bibliographical Note | 667 |
Index | 675 |
The Author | 708 |
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