Singapore : : The Unexpected Nation / / Edwin Lee.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Lee, Edwin,
• MitwirkendeR: Gungwu, Wang,
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (730 p.)

This 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Beginnings: From Temasek to Singapore -- Chapter Two. Race, History and Nationalism -- Chapter Three. Contestants and Contesting Visions -- Chapter Four. The Accidental Chief Minister -- Chapter Five. The Terminal Chief Minister -- Chapter Six. The Embattled Prime Minister -- Chapter Seven. Merger: Contesting Ownership and Principles -- Chapter Eight. Terms of Disendearment -- Chapter Nine. Dare to be Equal -- Chapter Ten. The Way to Survive -- Chapter Eleven. National Service: The Price of Independence -- Chapter Twelve. Politics of Education -- Chapter Thirteen. Home Ownership, National Stability and the New Middle Classes -- Chapter Fourteen. University and Nation -- Chapter Fifteen. Toh’s Nation-Building Thrust -- Chapter Sixteen. Nantah: Between Community and Nation -- Chapter Seventeen. Self-Renewal: Talents for a Tough Act -- Chapter Eighteen. The Consensual Prime Minister -- Chapter Nineteen. Confucianism, Christianity, Chineseness -- Chapter Twenty. Singapore Dreams, Singapore Dilemmas -- Chapter Twenty-One. The Hyphenated Singaporean -- Chapter Twenty-Two. The Unexpected Nation -- Bibliographical Note -- Index -- THE AUTHOR