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How does one comprehend the phenomenon of the modernization of an Asian society in a globalized East Asian context?With this opening question, the author proceeds to give an account of how the modernization processes for postcolonial societies in Asia, ones such as India, Malaysia, and Singapore, are fraught with collaborations and conflicts between different socio-political, historical, economic and cultural agents.Such ambivalent dynamics contribute to what Wee argues as a 'distortion' of the extant models of Western modernity, which is nonetheless rooted in the politics of worldwide capitalism.

Wee's narrative refuses to accept the uncritical interpretation of the modernizing processes in Asia as liberation from the hegemony of Euro-American capitalism.Nor is Wee prepared to concede that all cultural initiatives in the postcolonial societies are, therefore, denied all power to devise alternative forms of expression in the face of this haunting presence.It is the persistent effort to see the many faces of modernization in Asia in their full complexity that marks this book apart.

Readers will discover that what seems to be the modernization of a single geopolitical entity is inevitably linked to the dynamics of various agents in other locations at different times which makes us reflect on the existence of the many 'distortions' in our societies. ... Read more

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‘This is an extremely readable and comprehensive account of one of the most successful stories of economic development in the late 20th Century. In Economic Growth and Development in Singapore, Gavin Peebles and Peter Wilson examine various perspectives on the city-state’s economic development, and combine theory and empirical detail with aplomb. Their new text is a very welcome addition to the development literature.’

- Christopher M. Dent, University of Hull, UK

In this book Gavin Peebles and Peter Wilson offer an historical overview of the rapid growth and development of the Singapore economy, detailing the institutions and policies which have made this growth possible. They examine the current state of the economy and its future in terms of prospective growth and structural change.

The authors discuss the conflicting views on the role of government and the public sector in the economy, and analyze the quality and sustainability of growth. They explore the structural changes which have occurred due to high rates of savings and investment, a large balance of payments surplus and monetary, financial and fiscal conditions. Important in this analysis is the extent to which Singaporeans themselves have benefited in terms of welfare. The authors also identify the key roles played by trade policy, and financial and exchange rate institutions in creating and sustaining growth. In the aftermath of the Asian financial crisis, they assess the current health of the economy and the implementation of reforms to achieve the government’s vision of a ‘New Singapore’.

Based on the authors’ own combined experiences of living in Singapore for over 20 years, this broad-based and analytical book sheds light on Singapore’s status in the world economy. The integration of economic, social and political perspectives will ensure the book’s broad appeal among scholars, students and researchers interested in growth and economic development in Singapore and South-east Asia. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Geographical Review, published by American Geographical Society on January 1, 2000. The length of the article is 5058 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: THE CHINA-SINGAPORE SUZHOU INDUSTRIAL PARK: A TURNKEY PRODUCT OF SINGAPORE?
Author: Tai-chee Wong
Publication: The Geographical Review (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2000
Publisher: American Geographical Society
Volume: 90Issue: 1Page: 112

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This is the fifteenth issue in an annual series of publications based on Singapore Perspectives, the annual flagship conference held by the Institute of Policy Studies that seeks to provide an audience of policy-makers, business elites, and civil society activists with an early outlook on the year that is unfolding, as well as insights into critical strategic trends that are likely to affect Singapore in the longer term. These publications provide a macro-level outlook on politics and the economy in Singapore. This is the backdrop for another set of papers that discuss what shapes the people's sense of political and socio-economic inclusion here today. The third set of papers focuses on foreign affairs, taking a critical look at how Singapore can better develop warmer ties, and partnerships with her closet neighbours, Indonesia and Malaysia, amongst others, that might help us all to thrive in the midst of the challenges brought on by global economic and geopolitical pressures. ... Read more

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The book presents the proceedings of the annual Perspectives Conference. The 2002 event covered issues on Singapore like its politics, its international role, its economy and trade policy, and discussed the effects of globalisation and about nurturing thinking out of the box. ... Read more

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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Singapore," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Singapore in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Singapore when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Singapore, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more

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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Singapore," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Singapore in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Singapore when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Singapore, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more

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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Singapore," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Singapore in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Singapore when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Singapore, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more

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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Singapore," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Singapore in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Singapore when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Singapore, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more

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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Singapore," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Singapore in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Singapore when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Singapore, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more

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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Singapore," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Singapore in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Singapore when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Singapore, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Geographical Review, published by American Geographical Society on January 1, 2009. The length of the article is 10234 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: Shanghai and Singapore are two economically vibrant Asian cities that have recently adopted creative/cultural economy strategies. In this article I examine new spatial expressions of cultural and economic interests in the two cities: state-vaunted cultural edifices and organically evolved cultural spaces. I discuss the simultaneous precariousness and sustainability of these spaces, focusing on Shanghai's Grand Theatre and Moganshan Lu and on Singapore's Esplanade--Theatres by the Bay and Wessex Estate. Their cultural sustainability is understood as their ability to support the development of indigenous content and local idioms in artistic work. Their social sustainability is examined in terms of the social inclusion and community bonds they engender; environmental sustainability refers to the articulation with the language of existing urban forms and the preservation of or improvements to the landscape. Although both Shanghai and Singapore demonstrate simultaneous precariousness and sustainability, Singapore's city state status places greater pressure on it to ensure sustainability than does Shanghai, within a much larger China in which Beijing serves as the cultural hearth while Shanghai remains essentially a commercial center. Keywords: China, creative and cultural spaces, Shanghai, Singapore, sustainability.

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Title: Making sustainable creative/cultural space in Shanghai and Singapore.(Report)
Author: Lily Kong
Publication: The Geographical Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2009
Publisher: American Geographical Society
Volume: 99Issue: 1Page: 1(22)

Article Type: Report

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While changes in the demographic, economic, socio-political, linguistic and education aspects of life in Singapore in the last fifteen years have been fairly well documented by specialists in the separate fields, there is clearly a need for a state-of-the-art volume on the inter-relationship of developments in language, society and education. This book aims to fulfil that need. The book is distinguished by four characteristics: it deals not only with English but also with Chinese, Malay and Tamil, Singapore's other official languages; it draws upon empirical research carried out in the last decade in Singapore; it examines the subject from a range of perspectives, including that of classroom pedagogy; and it deals with the language needs of both the school-going population and working adults. This is a reissue of the second edition of this illuminating book. ... Read more

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Comprehensive review
This book gives an overview of language policies and education in Singapore.Many of the papers have been updated since the 1994 edition, and others have been added.The book is divided into 3 parts: Language in Singapore, Language in Society, and Language in Education.The language experiences and status of the three major ethnic groups of Singapore, Chinese, Malay and Indians, are each described in separate chapters.Singapore English is also considered extensively.

One striking fact about Singaporean language policy that comes out repeatedly in the papers of this volume is how the government gives preferential treatment towards Mandarin Chinese, and dismisses other dialects of Chinese as merely "dialects".It would have been nice if the book had included a paper on the motivations behind this policy and how non-Mandarin speakers feel about the policy.However, such questions may not be political acceptable to the government so the omission is understandable.

On the whole, the papers in the volume are very well written, with few exceptions.Many of the papers in the first 2 parts of the book might appeal to anyone interested in sociolinguistic and language planning issues.The third part of the book may only interest Singapore specialists, however.
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