GEORGE YEO on Bonsai, Banyan and the Tao

• Main Author: Yeo, George Yong-Boon (Author)
• Other Authors: Asad Latif (Editor), Li, Huiling 1971- (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore World Scientific 2015
• Subjects: Yeo, George Yong-Boon; Cabinet officers > Biography > Singapore; Singapore > Politics and government|y1990-; Singapore > Foreign relations
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"George Yeo's 1991 speech on pruning the banyan tree of the Singapore state, a political canopy under which nothing could grow, heralded an era of activism by civil society, which had hitherto been seen as a threat to the dominance of the PAP state. The ministerial speeches by Yeo - an ind...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword by Amartya Sen
• Foreword by Wang Gungwu
• Foreword by Nicolas Berggruen
• Commentary by Asad-ul Iqbal Latif
• Commentary by Lee Huay Leng
• Introduction-- Singapore and politics
• Culture and values - Media and social media
• Geopolitics
• Appendix