{"product_id":"lion-city-9781643139340","title":"Lion City: Singapore and the Invention of Modern Asia","description":"\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA compelling, illuminating and evocative history of Singapore—the world's most successful city-state.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn 1965, Singapore's GDP per capita was on a par with Jordan. Now it has outstripped Japan. After the Second World War and a sudden rupture with newly formed Malaysia, Singapore found itself independent - and facing a crisis. It took the bloody-minded determination and vision of Lee Kuan Yew, its founding premier, to take a small island of diverse ethnic groups with a fragile economy and hostile neighbours and meld it into Asia's first globalised city.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLion City\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e examines the different faces of Singaporean life - from education and health to art, politics and demographic challenges - and reveals how in just half a century, Lee forged a country with a buoyant economy and distinctive identity. It explores the darker side of how this was achieved too; through authoritarian control that led to it being dubbed 'Disneyland with the death penalty'.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJeevan Vasagar, former Singapore correspondent for the\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, masterfully takes us through the intricate history, present and future of this unique diamond-shaped island one degree north of the equator, where new and old have remained connected. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLion City\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is a personal, insightful and definitive guide to the city, and how its extraordinary rise is shaping East Asia and the rest of the world.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Pegasus Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42353021976782,"sku":"9781643139340","price":24.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/0883\/2974\/files\/9781643139340_a.png?v=1706513513","url":"https:\/\/www.bookxcess.com\/products\/lion-city-9781643139340","provider":"BookXcess","version":"1.0","type":"link"}