Thursday, January 12, 2012

Long list of books about Singapore

Singapore

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- Brenda Yeoh 'Over Singapore 50 years ago' (2007).

- J. Davison 'History of Singapore' (2007).

- Thomas Keneally 'The widow and her hero' (2007).

- Chee Kiong Tong 'Rationalizing religion' (2007).

- Yoji Akashi (ed), British Malaya and Singapore during the Japanese occuptation (2007).

- Peter Preston 'Singapore in the global system' (2007).

- Wijeysingha 'Social Engineering in Singapore' (2007).

- Yao 'Singapore (Asia’s transformations)' (2007).

- Aun Koh 'Singapore Chic' (2007).

- Angela Milligan 'Singapore, culture Smart!' (2006).

- Peter Neville 'The rose of Singapore' (2006).

- Colin Smith 'Singapore burning' (2005).

- J.G. Farell 'The Singapore grip' (2005).

- Dawn Mok 'Singapore cityscoops' (2005).

- Peter Thompson 'The battle for Singapore' (2005).

- Yoji Akashi 'British Malaya and Singapore during the Japanese occupation' (2005)

- Brenda Yeoh 'Contesting space in colonial Singapore' (2003).

- Chew Yen Fook and Iola Lenzi 'The magic of Singapore' (2003).

- Neil Humphrey 'Notes from an even smaller island' (2001).

- Julian Davison 'One for the road' (2001).

- Joann Meriwether Craig, 'Culture Shock! Singapore' (2001).

- Catherine Lim 'Following the wrong god home' (2001).

- Lee Kuan Yew 'From third world to first' (2000).

- Gretchen Liu 'Singapore, a pictorial history' (1999).

- Joseph Garber 'In a perfect state (1999).

- Francis T. Seow 'The media enthralled' (1998).

- Suchen Christine Lim 'A fistful of colours' (1993).

- C.M. Turnbull 'A history of Singapore' (1989).

- Louis l’Amour 'West from Singapore' (1987 reissue).

- Alex Josey 'Lee Kuan Yew' (1974).

- Paul Theroux 'Saint Jack' (1973). In 1979 verfilmd.

- J.G. Farell, the Singapore Grip (1978/2005).

- Paul Theroux 'Sinning with Annie and other stories' (1972)

- Gwenn R. Boardman 'Living in Singapore' (1971).

- Masanobu Tsuji 'Singapore – the Japanese version' (1960).

Ian Buruma: God's dust


Investigating the question of what happens to Asian cultures when traditions of the village break down and are replaced by the complexities of the modern world, the author's travels took him from Burma to Japan, via Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Taiwan and South Korea.