Lim Chen Sian's Books

The University Socialist Club and the Contest for Malaya

Tangled Strands of Modernity

By: Edgar Liao,Cheng Tju Lim,Guo Quan Seng

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The University Socialist Club and the Contest for Malaya

Tangled Strands of Modernity

By: Edgar Liao,Cheng Tju Lim,Guo Quan Seng

The book, using a small group of left-wing student activists as a prism, explores the complex politics that underpinned the making of nation-states in Singapore and Malaysia after World War Two. While most works have viewed the period in terms of political contestation groups, the book demonstrates how it is better understood as involving a shared modernist project framed by British-planned decolonization. This pursuit of nationalist modernity was characterized by an optimism to replace the colonial system with a new state and mobilize the people into a new relationship with the state, according them new responsibilities as well as new rights. This book, based on student writings, official documents and oral history interviews, brings to life various modernist strands - liberal-democratic, ethnic-communal, and Fabian and Marxist socialist - seeking to determine the form of post-colonial Malaya. It uncovers a hitherto little-seen world where the meanings of loud slogans were fluid, vague and deeply contested. This world also comprised as much convergence between the groups as conflict, including collaboration between the Socialist Club and other political and student groups which were once its rivals, while its main ally eventually became its nemesis"--Publisher's description.

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704

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Amsterdam University Press

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9089644091

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9789089644091

Lim Chong Yah: An Autobiography - Life Journey Of A Singaporean Professor

By: Chong Yah Lim

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Lim Chong Yah: An Autobiography - Life Journey Of A Singaporean Professor

By: Chong Yah Lim

Why are some nations rich and others poor? Why do the citizens of some countries lead a happy, prosperous life while others struggle in terrible want?This book takes the reader through the eventful life journey of one of Singapore's best known economists and educators, Professor Lim Chong Yah. Born in Malacca, the author planted tapioca to feed himself and his family, caught fish in paddy fields and was thrown in jail as a 10-year-old during the war. He fought to win a Commonwealth scholarship to get a decent education, met the love of his life at a Chinese New Year party, became a Professor at two of the best universities in Asia, and went on to write one the most widely-used economics textbooks of the time, Elements of Economic Theory.At 84, Lim Chong Yah is as feisty, indomitable and curious as when he was a small, cheeky boy catching fighting fish in those paddy fields. And he still asks the fundamental question of how each of us can make a difference.

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388

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World Scientific

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9813203064

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9789813203068

Diffusion of Distances

Dialogues Between Chinese and Western Poetics

By: Wai-Lim Yip

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Diffusion of Distances

Dialogues Between Chinese and Western Poetics

By: Wai-Lim Yip

In this collection of passionately argued essays, the internationally acclaimed poet and critic Wai-lim Yip calls Western scholarship to account for its treacherous representation of non-Western literature. Yip moves from Plato to Hans-Georg Gadamer, from Chuang-tzu to Mao Tse-tung, from John Donne to Robert Creeley, as he attempts to create a double consciousness that includes the state of mind of the original author and the expressive potentials of the target language. He aims, first, to expose the types of distortions that have occurred in the process of translation from one language to another and, second, to propose guidelines that will prevent this kind of linguistic violence in the future.

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260

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Univ of California Press

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0520912306

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9780520912304

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The University Socialist Club and the Contest for Malaya

The University Socialist Club and the Contest for Malaya

Lim Chong Yah: An Autobiography - Life Journey Of A Singaporean Professor

Lim Chong Yah: An Autobiography - Life Journey Of A Singaporean Professor

Diffusion of Distances

Diffusion of Distances

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