Lion City
Singapore and the Invention of Modern Asia

During my trip to Singapore I was fascinated by the tiny city-state. With this book I learnt so much more about it, its history, leadership and how it is run and managed. Really good reading.......more

Enjoyed the initial few chapters of the book which talked about the history of the city state. However, the latter half of the book was sometimes illuminating but did not offer much new information. Overall a pretty solid read into undoubtedly a successful case of nation building. The contrasts that......more

I was pleasantly surprised to find this fist book from Jeevan Vasagar, former Singapore and Malaysia correspondent for the Financial Times, prominently displayed on the new books shelf of our local library. This is a thoughtful, journalistic account as he scans the history of Singapore leading up to......more

Could identify with a lot of the themes. Great research but got a bit repetitive. To sum it up, it’s a benevolent dictatorship that leads the country to new heights, albeit with rising tensions simmering in society.......more

Singapore is my vision of a perfect place for living. A modern, rich, island-state ruled by an authoritarian, but highly competent, ruling party which had ruled Singapore since it early days of independence uninterruptedly. It managed to transformed itself from an island colony fraught by ethnic and......more