![]() ![]() He puts the story in the context of Singapore’s development as a democracy in the 1950s, when Chan's career began. Liew, who is Malaysian-born and has a philosophy degree from the University of Cambridge, became a citizen of Singapore while working on the book. ![]() That's not to demean the amazing things the PAP have achieved here, but there is a gap between the stories they want to tell about Singapore and the more complex reality of what happened.” An example would be the idea that the PAP had dragged Singapore from being a sleepy fishing village into the modern world, when in truth there was already a rather developed city center under British rule. ![]() To put the Singaporean government’s objections in context, Liew says his book “questions elements of what has been called the Singapore Story-the official version of history as told by the People's Action Party (PAP). ![]()
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