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Asian Godfathers: Money and Power in South-East Asia - Joe Studwell
Asian Godfathers:... Money and Power in Hong Kong and South-East Asia... by... Joe Studwell... In 329 pages Studwell undertakes a thorough investigation of the dealings of multi millionaires, the godfathers, in the booming economies of Southeast Asia. They're usually from immigrant stock, often Chinese, with an uncanny ability to...
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Chinese Family and Marriage in Singapore - Maurice Freedman (Pre Publicatication Edition)
Chinese Family and Marriage... in... Singapore... by... Maurice Freedman... (This volume is the Colonial office Pre-Publication Edition)... This fascinating study by an anthropologist who was commissioned by the British Government gives the reader a snapshot of Singapore life based on research carried out for almost two years between 1949...
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Chinese Family and Marriage in Singapore _ Maurice Freedman
Chinese Family and Marriage... in... Singapore... by... Maurice Freedman... This fascinating study by an anthropologist who was commissioned by the British Government gives the reader a snapshot of Singapore life based on research carried out for almost two years between 1949 and 1950. The main aim of the work is...
Price: $197.00
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Legitimacy and ethnicity: A case study of Singapore - Peter A Busch
Legitimacy and Ethnicity:... A case study of Singapore... by... Peter A Busch... This interesting study was carried out in Singapore shortly after the Malaysian ethnic disturbances of 1969. The author seeks to examine the moral bond that ideally exists between the state and its citizens in order to make government...
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Nanyang Perspective - Andrew William Lind
Nanyang Perspective -... by... Andrew William Lind... This fascinating and probably long forgotten study was the by-product of a visit in 1969 by this distinguished US sociologist to work with the sociology department of Nanyang University, Singapore. It so happened that the May 13th riots took place during his stay...
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Relatively Speaking - Joan Hon
Relatively Speaking... - -... Joan Hon... In this 270-page book the daughter of a former Finance Minister of Singapore, Hon Sui Sen, gives an insight into the life of a very private man. Although the book's unlikely to be critical, nevertheless it is a useful contribution to the history of Singapore...
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Singapore-Malaysia Relations Under Abdullah Badawi - Saw Swee-Hock & K Kesavapan
Singapore-Malaysia Relations Under Abdullah Badawi... by... Saw Swee-Hock & K Kesavapan... New. The relationship between Malaysia and Singapore has never fully recovered since the 1965 split between two parts of Malaysia. However with the replacement of Mahathir by Badawi as Malaysia's Prime Minister in 2003 a determined effort...
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State and Family in Singapore: Restructuring a Developing Society - J. Salaff
State and Family in Singapore:... Restructuring a Developing Society... -... Janet W. Salaff... This fascinating book looks at the transformation of once impoverished families in Singapore, mainly engaged in providing unskilled and cheap labour for mass produced goods, into a middle class retrained with improved technical skills for more complex assembly...
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Suicidal Behaviour in Singapore - Chia Boon Hock
Suicidal Behaviour in Singapore... by... Chia Boon Hock... This work was not written because the Singapore of the time had a particularly high suicide rate, but rather to develop academic and practitioner understanding as to why people committed suicide and what, if anything, could be done about it. In order...
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The Development of Singapore's Economy - Lim Tay Boh
The Development of Singapore's Economy... by... Lim Tay Boh... In this booklet Lim, Professor of Economics at the University of Malaya at the time, provides the reader with a collection of his prviously published essays re-edited for this volume. The essays tackle a wide range of issues as Singapore...
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Trade and Aid in South-East Asia: Volume 1 - Malaysia and Singapore
Trade and Aid in South-East Asia:... Volume 1 - Malaysia and Singapore... by... Sumitro Djojohadikusumo... The book is a collection of material that came out of an evaluation of Australian aid to Malaysia and Singapore in the 10 years up to 1966. The Australians laid particular emphasis on having the...
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West Malaysia and Singapore: A Selected Bibliography - Karl J. Pelzer
West Malaysia and Singapore:... A Selected Bibliography... by... Karl J. Pelzer... The author was Professor of Geography at Yale University when he prepared this work which limited exclusively to works for students of the Behavioural Sciences (Anthropology, Economics, Geography, Political Science and Sociology as well as History and the Natural...
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