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by Ivan Toh Chun Siong
Singapore’s history, as it is “fashioned by the heroic vision of its founding fathers”, has produced an orthodox doctrine we know as the Singapore Story.[i]However, the Singapore story is problematic; embodying a “complexly nuanced historical…interpretation of the past that (was) manufactured for political reasons…a tactical selection of facts: those that are […]
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