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Gender Inequality Forging a Sustainable Future for Asian Cities Socioeconomic Analysis and Case Studies on Urban Regeneration Developing Country Case Studies edited by Chye Kiang Heng (National University of Singapore, by Clement A Tisdell (The University of Singapore), et al. Queensland, Australia) Forging a Sustainable Future for Asian Cities collects and analyses as This unique book provides an easily com- many instances of many factors that can contribute to a ‘un-sustainable’ prehended overview of facts about gender city and their positive solutions from the vast number of cities at various inequality and contains a valuable introduction stages of urban life. This volume contains case studies resulting from to economic theories of this inequality, the meticulous field work and analysis on the trends and concepts in urban applicability of which is assessed in the light regeneration and planning. of empirical evidence. A special feature of this book is its adoption of a multidisciplinary approach to the study of Readership: Professionals, researchers and practioners in urban gender inequality. Both economic and sociological influences on gender planning; advanced undergraduates and postgraduates. inequality are taken into account in an innovative fashion. 200pp May 2020 Readership: For readers who are interested in having an overview of 978-981-4713-34-4(pbk) US$102 £85 gender inequality. 396pp May 2019 Rivalry and Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific 978-981-120-082-3 US$138 £120 The Dynamics of a Region in Transition (In 2 Volumes) edited by Mark Beeson (University of Western Australia, Australia) World Scientific Series on Ageing in Asia - Vol 1 Rivalry and Cooperation in the Asia- Ageing in Asia Pacific provides a comprehensive and Contemporary Trends and Policy Issues accessible introduction to the most edited by Kai Hong Phua (Lee Kuan Yew important strategic and economic region School of Public Policy, National University of in the world. This two-volume reference Singapore, Singapore), et al. work, by one of the world’s leading Ageing in Asia contains a selection of leading analysts of regional affairs, places these social systems and programs, with interesting events in historical context and considers case-studies offering innovative and useful what they may mean for future political, lessons. The book covers ageing and related economic and strategic relations. By developments occurring in the most dynamic focusing on the United States, China Special industrializing and urbanizing societies of emerging Asia. It includes and the region’s most significant middle Offer topical issues such public policies and responses to current challenges powers, the book explains why and how from the growing needs of an ageing population, amidst rapidly changing the Asia-Pacific has become the fulcrum of international events. social, cultural, economic and political changes in the region. Readership: International relations and geoeconomics students and those interested in contemporary issues of the Asia-Pacific. Readership: Policy-makers and practitioners, scholars and students who are interested in ageing and development issues occurring in the 1008pp Jan 2020 leading ageing societies of Asia. 978-981-120-189-9(Set) US$348 £305 US$298 £260 492pp May 2019 Introductory Offer till Dec 31, 2019 978-981-3225-54-1 US$148 £130 The Political Economy of the BRICS Countries From the Global Financial (In 3 Volumes) Tsunami to the Property Editor-in-chief: Edward D Mansfield (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Bubbles in Asia & Nita Rudra (Georgetown University, USA) The Need for a New Discipline on Over the past 20 years, social Macroeconomic Management scientists, government officials, and by Paul Sau-Leung Yip (Nanyang investors have expressed mounting Technological University, Singapore) interest in the BRICS countries. These countries are widely viewed as Key Features: both key actors in the global economy 4 ○ Draws important lessons on the global and important regional powers. The financial crisis, European debt crisis, Political Economy of the BRICS and risks of asset bubbles and currency attacks in Asia after Countries is a three-volume set the US quantitative easing that aims to address various crucial ○ Provides a new theoretical framework to explain the unique issues regarding these countries. The Special characteristics of Asian property market and makes pertinent BRICS countries have attracted rising Offer policy recommendations attention over the past two decades. ○ Offers important lessons for investment in property and stock The volumes provide an in-depth analysis of various key issues regarding markets these countries and chart a course for future research.

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Achieving Energy Security in PISA and PIRLS Asia The Effects of Culture and School Diversification, Integration and Policy Environment Implications by Kaycheng Soh edited by Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary International comparative studies of student (Waseda University, Japan), et al. achievement have caught the attention of This book presents a critical review of the governments, policy-makers, school leaders status of energy security in Asia and suggests and educational researchers globally. They how a country or a region collectively can have become benchmarks of education for achieve energy security in two broad aspects, countries in the world and provide a broad through analysis and reviews. From the reviews and analyses, this perspective for countries to evaluate their book asserts that diversification and integration is the key to ensure education achievement. However, culture and school environment energy security and presents policy implications for enhancing energy are two critical factors affecting educational achievement that deserve security, especially in resource-rich as well as resource-poor developing careful consideration and re-interpretation. This book brings light to these countries in Asia. conceptual and methodological issues.

Readership: Graduate students, researchers, economists, and policy Readership: School principals, teachers, and policy-makers at the makers interested in energy economics; energy policy. resource national level. Postgraduate students and parents. economics and energy planning. 248pp Jan 2019 348pp Sep 2019 978-981-3276-53-6 US$88 £75 978-981-120-420-3 US$118 £105 Green Development of Asia- The Coordination of BRICS Pacific Cities Development Strategies Building Better Cities Towards 2030 Towards Shared Prosperity edited by Zheng Zhao (Development Research edited by Linggui Wang & Jianglin Zhao Center of the State Council, PRC, China) (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China) The book evaluates and analyses the level of BRICS countries (known as bloc), have been green development in over 100 major cities working closely together for more than a in Asia Pacific. A quantitative analysis of the decade in areas as politics, economics, culture relationship with economic growth, income and security. The bloc plays a crucial role in distribution, innovation capabilities, service facilitating the growth of not only emerging sector, governance levels, and city clusters are accumulated and markets and developing countries, but also the world economy as a presented in the form of a new index; the Urban Green Development whole. It contributes significantly towards improving global governance Index (UGDI). and the welfare of those living in BRICS countries. The chapters in this Readership: Researchers and urban planners looking to access cities book analyze how the BRICS countries have realized shared prosperity on their sustainability performance. and achieved global prominence by cooperating with one another. 420pp Jan 2019 Readership: Academics, professionals, policy-makers and students 978-981-3236-81-3 US$138 £121 interested in cooperation of BRICS countries.

250pp Aug 2019 978-981-120-099-1 US$98 £85 The Resurgence of Ideological Differences and Its Social

Japanese Management and International Political Consequences Studies - Vol 16 Case Studies of 36 Industrialized Sustainability Management Countries by Leizhen Zang (University of Chinese and Business Strategy in Asia Academy of Sciences, China) edited by Katsuhiko Kokubu (Kobe University, Japan) & Yoshiyuki Nagasaka Key Features: (Konan University, Japan) ○ Provide the latest and detailed evidence for some debated theories Key Features: based on quantitative analysis and mixed method, compared ○ Current topics about sustainability with the extant work of qualitative research on political ideology management in Asia including case and its impacts 5 studies are shown ○ Studies latest issues on government turnover and its influences ○ Theory and practical examples of sustainability connected with on the political and economic development management strategy are clearly indicated ○ Discusses the measurement approach on the level of ○ All papers are written by top level researchers ideological division from a comparative historical perspective For readers who would like to understand how sustainability Readership: Readership: Academics, professionals, policy-makers and students management is practised in the Asian context and the proposed practices interested in political sciences, political systems, party ideologies on for the future. political efficiency and governance effectiveness.

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Shadows Across the Golden Land Rising from the Ashes Myanmar’s Opening, Foreign Influence and Investment UN Peacebuilding in Timor-Leste by Simon Tay (Singapore Institute of International Affairs, Singapore) by Viji Menon (S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological Shadows Across the Golden Land: Myanmar’s Opening, Foreign University, Singapore) Influence and Investment aims to provide readers with an assessment of recent developments in Myanmar that integrates on-the-ground Rising from the Ashes: UN Peacebuilding in experience and insider knowledge of the monumental events that have Timor-Leste provides an in-depth look into the over the past few years shaken the country to its core. It presents readers UN’s first experiment in governing and building with a clear vision for how the country might progress beyond its current peace in the aftermath of conflict, using East obstacles, which also highlights the opportunities that remain available Timor as a case study. It examines how the for investors within Myanmar’s vibrant frontier economy. Timorese have progressed after the UN left and the challenges that lie ahead. This book is based on the author’s Readership: Myanmar watchers and those with a casual interest in first-hand experience working in the UN as it restored law and order the region. and built a state in a country without a government, any infrastructure, 150pp May 2020 or human resources 978-981-3273-54-2 US$45 £40 Readership: Professionals, policy makers, research institutes, think tanks, graduate students, scholars & experts

Asia Competitiveness Institute - World Scientific Series 250pp Nov 2019 Annual Competitiveness 978-981-120-594-1 US$98 £85 Analysis and Impact Estimation of Exchange Rates Advanced Research on Asian Economy and on Exports from Sub-National Economies of Other Continents - Vol 11 Economies of Indonesia Development Strategies of by Khee Giap Tan (Lee Kuan Yew School Open Economies of Public Policy, National University of Cases from Emerging East and Singapore, Singapore), et al. Southeast Asia by Frank S T Hsiao (University of Colorado, Key Features: Boulder, USA) & Mei-Chu Wang Hsiao ○ This is the only annual study of Indonesia’s sub-national (University of Colorado, Denver, USA) competitiveness landscape which is conducted impartially “ The authors… not only clarify the time series ○ The book presents a comprehensive analysis based on an extensive dataset sourced from formal statistics as well as structures of interdependence among countries with international trade surveys conducted jointly with the government, business and investments, but also reveal the strategic interactions among owners, and academic institutions in all of Indonesian macroeconomic policies of exports, foreign direct investment and provinces economic growth in East and Southeast Asian economies.” Koichi Hamada Investors, academics, researchers, policy-makers, Readership: Tuntex Emeritus Professor of Economics, Yale University government stakeholders and general readers. Readership: Advanced undergraduate and graduate students and 398pp Nov 2019 lecturers, policy makers. 978-981-120-784-6 US$188 £165 350pp Oct 2019 978-981-120-540-8 US$118 £105 Asia Competitiveness Institute - World Scientific Series Annual Competitiveness Analysis and Impact Series on China’s Belt and Road Initiative The Belt and Road Initiative Estimation of Exchange Rates ASEAN Countries’ Perspectives on Trade in Value-Added of edited by Yue Yang & Fujian Li ASEAN Economies (China Foreign Affairs University, China) by Khee Giap Tan (Lee Kuan Yew School In this book, researchers from universities and 8 of Public Policy, National University of think-tanks in ASEAN countries study the BRI Singapore, Singapore), et al. from the perspective of regional studies. It Annual Competitiveness Analysis and Impact presents an analysis of responses on BRI of the Estimation of Exchange Rates on Trade in Value-Added of ASEAN government and people from individual ASEAN members. The book addresses three areas: the Economies provides a comprehensive overview on recent developments strengths and weaknesses of ASEAN countries, and the opportunities and policy initiatives in ASEAN, highlighting its strengths and weaknesses and challenges for them in implementing the BRI; the impacts of BRI in facing the trade disruption from global events. Also in this book is an on building the ASEAN community; and interactions between BRI and in-depth coverage on trade, a key component of the ASEAN economy, ASEAN-China cooperation. and the integration of ASEAN into wider value chains. Readership: Academics, policymakers, professionals, undergraduate Readership: Investors, academics, researchers, policymakers, and graduate students. government stakeholders and general readers 200pp Aug 2019 256pp Nov 2019 978-981-120-576-7 US$88 £75 978-981-120-793-8 US$148 £130

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The Timor-Leste/Australia Power Broking in the Shade Conciliation Party Finances and Money Politics in A Victory for UNCLOS and Peaceful Southeast Asia Settlement of Disputes by Wolfgang Sachsenröder (Political Party Forum Southeast Asia, Singapore) edited by Hao Duy Phan (National University of Singapore, Singapore), et al. This book, Power Broking in the Shade: Party Finances and Money Politics in Southeast This book provides detailed analyses of the Asia, provides an overview of the strategies proceedings and a step-by-step account of for financial survival of the parties in the region the conciliation process, as well as its wider and the importance of stable cash flows for their implications for dispute settlement under political success. The book fills the void of a UNCLOS and beyond. Critically, the book offers insightful perspectives comparative approach towards party financing that covers the whole from Australia and Timor-Leste on the conciliation process. The book is of ASEAN and offers accessible facts and understandable analysis for an important contribution to the research and analysis of the Timor Sea anyone interested in the politics of Southeast Asia. conciliation. As one of the first books on the case, it will raise awareness and bring more familiarity with conciliation as a viable and effective Readership: Students and researchers in the field of Political Science/ dispute settlement process, thereby encouraging states to consider Southeast Asian studies Politicians, party activists, and the general conciliation as a means to settle their disputes. public interested in politics.

Readership: Statesmen, policy-makers, diplomats, scholars and anyone 204pp Jul 2018 interested in maritime boundary dispute settlement and conciliation 978-981-3230-73-6 US$78 £69 procedure.

340pp Mar 2019 978-981-120-270-4 US$40 £35 Mindanao The Long Journey to Peace and Prosperity Building Inclusive edited by Paul D Hutchcroft Democracies in ASEAN (The Australian National University, Australia) edited by Ronald U Mendoza (Asian Institute “Every chapter in this collection makes of Management, Philippines), et al. important contributions towards its particular subject area. In total, the essays constitute “Offering a multi-faceted look into the Asian a significant and useful resource for political economy as well as the dynamics understanding violent conflict on Mindanao, underpinning inclusive growth in the region, and prospects for peace and prosperity.” this volume bridges the perspectives of experts and practitioners from a broad array of fields Journal of Contemporary Asia on what it means to achieve inclusive growth… This book provides an in-depth examination of the latest stage of an This book therefore is a solid supplemental ongoing peace process as well as richly textured analysis of the historical, resource for individuals seeking a deeper understanding of the dynamics political, and economic context underlying one of the most enduring and issues surrounding the Asian political economy.” conflicts in the world. FIDEL V RAMOS President of the Republic of the Philippines (1992–1998) Readership: Scholars in South East Asian Studies, peace studies, History of Philippines, and conflict studies. Readership: Readers in political science, Southeast Asian studies, political economy, and governance reform. 340pp Apr 2018 978-981-3236-36-3 US$138 £121 452pp Feb 2019 978-981-3236-48-6 US$138 £121

Bestseller Ensuring a Square Meal Myanmar Women and Food Security in Reintegrating into the International Southeast Asia Community edited by Theresa W Devasahayam edited by Chenyang Li (Yunnan University, (Singapore University of Social Sciences China), et al. (SUSS), Singapore) Myanmar is one of the most important Key Features: One of the first attempts at providing countries in the world’s geopolitical landscape. ○ Its ongoing political and economic reforms a lens into the links between 9 women and food security at arouse growing concern from the international household, community, national, and community. Will the demostic reform bring Myanmar back to the transnational levels international community? How and to which extent does the demostic reform change Myanmar’s relations with other countries? Based on their ○ Aims to highlight the complex linkages between a woman’s role in food security in the household, and factors and long-term observation and studies, experts from China, Laos, Myanmar, conditions outside the household context and, in turn, Germany, Singapore and the US share their opinions on Myanmar’s demonstrate the interconnectedness between the private and domestic reform and foreign relations, as well as the current situation public realms and future prospect. This book contributes to better understanding of ○ Fills a gap in the literature on food security in Southeast Myanmar in its dramatic political and social transition. Asia, aside from numerous reports produced by multilateral organisations and NGOs Readership: Political scientists, undergraduates, graduate students, general readers interested in Myanmar studies. Readership: Students and professionals interested in Southeast Asian studies and food security studies. 424pp Aug 2016 978-981-4759-90-8 US$138 £115 264pp Oct 2018 978-981-3231-89-4 US$98 £86

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Asia Competitiveness Institute - World Scientific Series Sri Lanka at Crossroads Annual Competitiveness Geopolitical Challenges and National Analysis and Impact Interests Estimation of Exchange Rates by Asanga Abeyagoonasekera (Institute of National Security Studies Sri Lanka on Exports from Sub-National (INSSSL), Sri Lanka)

Economies of India “As the Indo-Pacific theatre takes center stage by Khee Giap Tan (Lee Kuan Yew School in geopolitics, Sri Lanka has been cast in a of Public Policy, National University of central role. This timely and important collection Singapore, Singapore), et al. sheds light on scenarios for the future of the Key Features: country and region that open a window into forecasting the future power balance in Asia.” ○ The book undertakes rigorous empirical research relating to the notion of competitiveness at the sub-national level in India Dr Parag Khanna ○ It introduces the novel methodology of “Shapley Values” that Author of Connectography (2016) and The Future is Asian (2019) enable us to measure the marginal contribution of a particular indicator we use in our analysis and are embedded in solid Readership: Readers interested in international relations, South Asia, mathematical and theoretical foundations Sri Lanka, national development and geopolitics. ○ The book provides a comprehensive empirical analysis of the impact of exchange rates on exports to the sub-national 224pp Mar 2019 economies of India 978-981-3276-72-7 US$98 £85 978-981-120-142-4(pbk) US$48 £40 Readership: Academics, undergraduate and graduate students, and professionals.

220pp Nov 2019 Politics and Governance in 978-981-120-796-9 US$138 £120 Indian States Bihar, West Bengal and Tripura by Subrata Mitra (NUS, Singapore) & Trade and Investment in Harihar Bhattacharyya (University of South Asia Burdwan West Bengal, India) An Analysis This book addresses the issues of federalism, by Rahul Choudhury (National University of power-sharing and constitutional reforms, and Singapore) & Dinkar Nayak (Maharaja their effects on governance in Indian States. Sayajirao University of Baroda, India) Located within the growing literature on new This book examines FDI inflows in SAARC State politics in India, this volume presents a critical, in-depth analysis nations in the light of regional policy changes in of politics in Bihar, West Bengal and Tripura — these States being units the 21st century. It investigates the relationship of analysis for more general implications. The issues of caste conflicts, between trade and FDI in the region, and ethnic conflicts and other collective identity issues will be examined in also provides insights into the ease of doing this book — a pioneer volume with detailed, empirically-based research business in the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation on the implications of State-centric politics in India. (SAARC) region. Readership: Undergraduate and graduate students and lecturers/ Readership: Undergraduate and graduate students of South Asian professors focusing on South Asian politics, governance in India and economies, trade flows and investment, and South Asian policy studies. general policy studies.

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WSPC-ZJUP Series on China’s Regional Development Series on China’s Belt and Road Initiative Change of China’s Rural Community 21st-Century Maritime Silk A Case Study of Zhejiang’s Jianshanxia Village Road Initiative by Dan Mao (Zhejiang University, China) Aims and Objectives, Implementation This book analyzes the industrialization process of Jianshanxia, a Strategies and Policy Recommendations mountain village in the Zhejiang Province, and its organizational changes by Jianglin Zhao (Chinese Academy of since China’s reform and opening-up. The book analyzes how the village Social Sciences, China) could quickly claim a large market share of the domestic electric mosquito 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road Initiative: Aims incense market. In retrospective, the transformation of this village was and Objectives, Implementation Strategies a miracle and a typical example of industrialization of the township and Policy Recommendations, presents the enterprises in China. The book serves as a good reference to those latest research findings on the directions interested in knowing more about the importance of industrialization and and implementation methods related to the initiative, and contributors collective ownership by township enterprises in China. offer policy suggestions, include promoting effective macroeconomic Readership: Academics, professionals, policy-makers and students. policies, extending microeconomic cooperation schemes, removing trade barriers and facilitating financial integration, building infrastructures that 320pp Dec 2019 can connect all subregions in Asia, and increasing people-to-people 978-981-3279-55-1 US$128 £115 exchanges and industrial cooperation.

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The Technical History of China’s Grand Canal Series on Chinese Economics Research by Xuming Tan (China Institute of Water Resources and Income Distribution and Hydropower Research, China), et al. China’s Economic Based on the past 30-years’ research on the technical and cultural “New Normal” values of China’s Grand Canal, this book, based on interdisciplinary by Haiyuan Wan & Shi Li research, studies the natural and social background of the evolution (Beijing Normal University, China) and development of different sections of the Grand Canal in different As the Chinese economy has moved to a historical periods, as well as the interrelations between the Grand Canal “New Normal” of slower growth and changed and the Chinese politics, economics, and culture. It also assesses the model of development, its income distribution effects of the Grand Canal on the progress of the Chinese civilization, is being affected in a number of ways. What engineering technology achievement, the natural environment, and the exactly are the impacts brought by the new changes? How should we society, providing the readers with an understanding of China’s Grand view China’s income distribution on the whole? What trend will we see Canal from the perspectives of hydraulic engineering and history. in the future? With regard to these and other questions that arise against Readership: Academics, professionals, researchers, undergraduate the backdrop of the economic “New Normal”, the book provides an in- and graduate students interested in the history of China’s grand canal, depth analysis of the new issues, characteristics and trends in relation flood control, irrigation, water management, hydrology and water to income growth rates, income and wealth gaps, and the proportion of management. personal income in China.

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Tokkatsu Series on Contemporary China - Vol 45 The Japanese Educational Model of Holistic Education China’s Omnidirectional edited by Ryoko Tsuneyoshi (University of Tokyo, Japan), et al. Peripheral Diplomacy Though there has been much discussion on the academic aspects of edited by Jianwei Wang (University of Japanese education abroad, there has been little information on the non- Macau, China) & Tiang Boon Hoo (Nanyang academic aspects of Japanese schooling. The non-academic aspect is Technological University, Singapore) called Tokkatsu (tokubetsu katsudo). Such activities occur every single This book examines China’s evolving strategies day, throughout one’s school years, from elementary school (actually, towards its surrounding peripheries. It is even kindergarten) to high school. They are, however, bound together by the first book to examine in detail President the common goals of the Tokkatsu framework. This book is the foremost Xi Jinping’s steering of China’s peripheral attempt to address a gap in English literature on Tokkatsu. diplomacy. According to this book, Chinese regional policy cannot be properly and adequately understood without taking into account its full Readership: Teachers, policymakers, and scholars who are interested in the Japanese model of schooling. breadth, substance and scope. This book fleshes out the intricacies of how China has been managing its peripheral relationships in Asia under 300pp Nov 2019 new circumstances and new leadership. 978-981-3232-66-2 US$118 £104 Readership: Students and researchers who are interested in China’s peripheral diplomacy under the new leadership of Xi Jinping.

Series on Chinese Economics Research - Vol 16 408pp May 2019 Research on Efficiency 978-981-3141-78-0 US$138 £120 and Fairness of Resources Allocationby China’s Singapore and Hong Kong: Governmental Administration Comparative Perspectives by Hong Sheng & Pu Qian On the 20th Anniversary of Hong Kong’s (The Unirule Institute of Economics, China) Handover to China This book studies the efficiency and fairness edited by Institute of Advanced Studies, of resources allocation by governmental Nanyang Technological University, administration in China. The book analyzes the Singapore resources allocation by government administration in three key areas Political, social and economic transformations namely education, health care, and land. This book also describes how have marked the 20 years since Hong Kong ordinary people address the misposition of resources by governmental became a Special Administrative Region of administrations by migrating from the provinces with less resources to China. To mark the historic handover, the Institute of Advanced Studies the provinces with more resources in education or health care. (IAS) at Nanyang Technological University invited experts from various Readership: Academics, professionals, policy-makers and students fields to share their unique insights on the developments and impact interested in resources allocations by Chinese government in three key of the last 20 years on Hong Kong and Singapore in a conference in areas: education, health care and land. Singapore. This volume is an invaluable collection on Hong Kong and Singapore’s past, present and future. Readers can enjoy the salient 440pp Aug 2019 analysis delivered with great thought and reflective humour. 978-981-3278-60-8 US$148 £130 Readership: Politics and economics undergraduates, general public.

140pp Apr 2019 Series on Chinese Economics Research - Vol 15 Industrial Overcapacity and 978-981-3237-92-6 US$48 £42 Duplicate Construction in China The Development of Guangdong China’s Economic Powerhouse Reasons and Solutions by Joseph Yu-Shek Cheng by Ping Li (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China), et al. This volume examines the development of Guangdong, especially the Pearl River Delta, This book provides an overview on the throughout the era of China’s economic reforms overcapacity problem facing China and and opening to the external world (from 1978 till examines the main characteristics of now). It analyzes the evolution from a labour- overcapacity in some important industries. It probes into how overcapacity intensive, export-oriented manufacturing base 18 is caused and finds two contributors — change of growth model and to a heavy-industry based economy, then to a institutional flaws. It explores to establish a long-term mechanism for high-tech manufacturing center cum regional business services center. solving the problem. The book concludes that China should establish This book focusses on the planning and development strategies of the a long-term mechanism to prevent and resolve overcapacity, and to Guangdong leadership and its local counterparts, their interactions establish healthy relationship between the market and the government. with the central leadership, the learning and adaptation processes Readership: Academics, professionals, policy-makers and students involved by stages, and the problems and challenges ahead. The interested in Chinese economy and industrial overcapacity. author adopts a chronological approach, thus enabling the readers to study the development processes in detail, taking into consideration the 292pp May 2019 benefits offered by as well as the crises in the domestic and international 978-981-3277-27-4 US$98 £85 environment.

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Digital Enablement and Economic Impact of the Innovation in China Internet Plus Era A Casebook A Case Study of Shanghai edited by Shan Ling Pan (University of New by Youmei Li, Feng Yin & Yongyou Nie South Wales, Australia), Derek Wen Yu Du (Shanghai University, China) (Beihang University, China) & Haibo Hu (Jiangxi University of Finance and The “Internet Plus” action plan was first Economics, China) introduced by Premier Li Keqiang on March 5, 2015. This book expounds how “Internet The casebook aims at providing the latest Plus” plan transforms and influences traditional case materials for researchers and students economy, impacts technological and economic who are keen to learn about the consumerization and transformation aspects of industries, extends its reach to people’s daily lives and effects of digital technology. It is one of the first books covering the creates more profound social implications. In addition, the authors best practices of digital enablement in China, which has been the focus put forward constructive measures and suggestions for Shanghai to many observers among the practitioners as well as academics. The promote development of the “Internet Plus” era and to enhance the 22 projects analyzed include Zhongguancun InnoWay, OFO Bicycle, city’s economic impact and service level as a core city. Esheke, Taobao, and more. Readership: Students, researchers and the general public who want to Readership: Students, researchers and practitioners interested in the know about the impact of the internet era in Shanghai. digital transformation projects in China. 292pp Jan 2019 184pp Mar 2019 978-981-3272-51-4 US$98 £85 978-981-3276-35-2 US$68 £60

Economic Development of Basic Principles of Chinese Philosophy Korea Volumes 1 & 2 by Jiaxiang Hu (South-Central University for Nationalities, China) by Chuk Kyo Kim (Hanyang University, South Korea) Today, Chinese philosophy per se has often been reduced to the “Professor Chuk Kyo Kim, a respected senior historical approach to it, hence its research economist, tells a highly insightful slower development in comparison 19 and convincing story of Korea's economic with European and Indian philosophies. development. This most updated book of the The author of this book avails himself Korean economy certainly deserves special of Kant’s model of human psychic attention of both development economics structure, synthesizes the basic students and policy makers.” elements of Chinese philosophy into Dr Il SaKong a rigorous theoretical framework, and former Minister of Finance, Korea and former Professor, New York University presents a panoptic view of the edifice of traditional Chinese philosophy. Readership: For those who are interested to understand Korea’s Readership: Academics, policy- development from the historical perspective. makers, professionals, undergraduate and graduate students. 308pp Mar 2019 684pp Mar 2019 978-981-3274-90-7 US$118 £105 978-981-3273-88-7(Set) US$168 £150

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Study on Chinese Traditional Urban Composite Development Theory of Artistic Style Index for 17 Shandong Cities by Jiaxiang Hu (South-Central University for Ranking and Simulation Analysis Based Nationalities, China) on China’s Five Development Concepts The book features an in-depth analysis of by Khee Giap Tan (Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of pre-modern Chinese discourses on artistic Singapore, Singapore), et al. style especially the concept of Vitality-Charm. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, the Key Features: book examines Vitality-Charm and related ○ Unique volume with no other rival topics from the perspectives of aesthetics, publications as yet, covering whole stylistics, semiotics, cosmology, art history, and socio-cultural history. It spread of the Shandong province reviews the development of, and examines the relations between, the ○ In-depth and rigorous empirical study on regional analysis concepts of poetic vision, spiritual resonance, spiritual expressiveness, on Shandong province, which views urban development at Vitality-Charm and so on in the tradition of Chinese art (including the city level and offers strategic city development from an literature, music, dancing, and drama). academic perspective, with an aim to achieve sustainable and balanced urban development across the cities covered Readership: Academics, policy-makers, professionals, undergraduate and graduate students. Readership: Academics, undergraduate and graduate students, and 540pp Jan 2019 professionals interested in China’s urban development. 978-981-3279-42-1 US$158 £140 460pp Feb 2019 978-981-3272-33-0 US$168 £150 China’s Rise in Mainland ASEAN Peking University Series on Sociology and New Dynamics and Changing Landscape Anthropology - Vol 5 edited by Suthiphand Chirathivat Institutional Change and Rural (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand), et al. Industrialization in China The rationale for this volume on China’s Rise The Putting-Out System in Handicraft in Mainland ASEAN: New Dynamics and Industry in Late Qing and Early Changing Landscapes stems from the rise in Republic Period recent years of China, ASEAN’s giant neighbor, by Feizhou Zhou (Peking University, China) and in its wake the significant economic, This book explores the development of the political, and socio-cultural developments in the ASEAN region. China’s putting-out system in hand-woven textile Rise in Mainland ASEAN: New Dynamics and Changing Landscapes industries in late Qing Dynasty and China’s Republican Period. In contributes useful insights, rich discussions, as well as the debates classic sociology theory, the putting-out system in handcraft production relevant to building a knowledge base about and better understanding was regarded as traditional and inefficient. This book exhibits the of China’s rising influence in mainland ASEAN. historical fact that the putting-out system was booming in handcraft textile production and subsequently provides an explanation to this Readership: Students, academics, researchers and practitioners in the field of China Studies and Southeast Asian Studies. phenomenon from the perspectives of institutional analysis and quantitative modeling. 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In addition, technology and imitation as their main they study how a specific corporate governance system can affect the technology strategies in the past. Based on organizational culture and operations management system and create analysis of cross-countries’ case studies and a different type of leader culture. This is an in-depth study of Japanese the history of industrial innovation, the authors proposed the concept multinational companies and a comparison of their corporate governance of industry-driven basic research and expounds the important role of system at home (in Japan) and in host countries like Britain, India, and scientific discovery in industrial technological innovation. Thailand. Readership: Graduates and researchers who are interested to find out Readership: Academics, researchers and students. about industrial innovation in China.

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New Waves of China’s Philosophical Studies China’s Education Reform: Current Issues collects important research findings of China’s and New Horizons collects important research philosophical studies conducted by the findings of education studies on China academics at East China Normal University conducted by the academics at East China (ECNU) in recent years. The book covers Normal University (ECNU) in recent years. The topics including Confucian ethics and virtue ethics, true value semantics book covers topics including the rebuilding of vs. commonsensible reasoning semantics, criticisms of dogmatism, contemporary Chinese education reform, the breakthrough of China’s consequentialism, among others. pedagogy, problems facing the education reform, and the ecological orientation of education technology, among others. Readership: Policymakers, academics, professionals, undergraduate and graduate students interested in philosophical studies in China. Readership: Policymakers, academics, professionals, undergraduate and graduate students. 196pp Oct 2018 978-981-3235-96-0 US$98 £85 304pp Oct 2018 978-981-3237-02-5 US$108 £95

WSPC-ECNU Series on China - Vol 2 Chinese History and Literature East Asian Studies in the New Ways to Examine China’s Past Perspective of Regional edited by Ruiquan Gao & Guanjun Wu (East China Normal University, China) Integration edited by Xinbo Wu (Shanghai International Chinese History and Literature: New Ways Studies University, China) to Examine China’s Past collects important This book analyzes the cooperation and studies on Chinese history and literature challenges of East Asian countries in the studies conducted by the academics at East process of integration. It includes 15 chapters China Normal University (ECNU) in recent in four sections. The chapters are selected years. The book covers topics including the from two Trilateral symposia held in Seoul study of Chinese Economic History, “Jiangnan Identity” in Chinese history and Shanghai in 2013 and 2014, respectively. The Symposia offer and literature, a new study on the cause of the great proscription, the comprehensive and diversified views of scholars from China, Korea artistic presentation of a tragic character, among others. and Japan. Readership: Policymakers, academics, professionals, undergraduate Policymakers, academics, professionals, undergraduate and graduate students interested in Chinese history and literature. Readership: and graduate students interested in East Asian integration. 292pp Oct 2018 316pp Jul 2018 978-981-3236-72-1 US$108 £95 978-1-938134-96-8 US$118 £104

WSPC-ECNU Series on China - Vol 3 Studies on Contemporary Studying Hong Kong China 20 Years of Political, Economic and Social Developments edited by Ruiquan Gao & Guanjun Wu edited by Tai Wei Lim & Tuan Yuen Kong (East China Normal University, China) (East Asian Institute, National University of Studies on Contemporary China collects Singapore, Singapore) important research findings of China’s This book captures the essence of Hong contemporary political, economic and social Kong’s development in the past two decades studies conducted by the academics at East from 1997 to 2017. It is broken into four parts China Normal University (ECNU) in recent — economics, society, politics and culture. years. This book covers topics including rural-urban integration, reflection In the political and international relations on the future of Shanghai Cooperation Organization, analysis of the realm, this book examines Hong Kong’s relations with China, effects of risk measures on bank efficiency, new rural social endowment other major powers and the world at large. It also covers domestic 21 insurance, neotype urbanization, among others. developments, including legal developments. Other chapters in the Readership: Policymakers, academics, professionals, undergraduate book examine cultural developments in Hong Kong from specific and graduate students interested in contemporary studies in China. case studies of iconic animation character to trans-boundary popularity of Hong Kong popular culture in China. 188pp Oct 2018 978-981-3236-99-8 US$98 £86 Readership: This book is intended for students as well as professionals and the general public interested in understanding Hong Kong culture, history and politics.

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History of Mathematical Consumption Patterns of the Sciences: Portugal and Middle Class in Contemporary East Asia V China Visual and Textual Representations in by Di Zhu (Chinese Academy of Social Exchanges Between Europe and Sciences, China) East Asia 16th – 18th Centuries This book, set against the background of edited by (Universidade de Luís Saraiva accounts of globalisation, aims to figure out Lisboa, Portugal) & Catherine Jami (CNRS, the consumer orientation of the middle class Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences in contemporary China, in particular how the Sociales, France) new elements in consumer orientation operate This volume brings together a series of essays on this theme. It is in the Chinese context. The book focuses on the consumption patterns divided into five sections which address as many topics: the textual from everyday consumption, taste and material culture. It highlights representation of the “Other”; 16th- and 17th-century maps of China, consumers’self-referential orientations: the pursuit of pleasure, tempered Japan and Vietnam; the phenomenon of hybridisation in visual by considerations regarding comfort, is a significant form of aesthetic representations; knowledge and representations of the world in Europe justification. The findings challenge the stereotype of the Chinese “new and East Asia; and the circulation of representations of the heavens in rich” and the one-dimensional pictures of tendencies towards either astronomy between these two regions. conspicuous display or frugality.

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Chinese Firms Going Global Series on Contemporary China - Vol 42 Can They Succeed? The South China Sea Disputes by (Judo Capital, Australia & Joseph Healy Historical, Geopolitical and Legal University of Queensland, Australia) Studies The book is aimed at providing an important edited by Tsu-Sung Hsieh context for understanding the challenges and (Ming Chuan University, Taiwan) biases Chinese firms face while going global, The South China Sea Disputes: Historical, using a multi-disciplinary approach weaving Geopolitical and Legal Studies covers various themes from history, contemporary Chinese issues regarding the currently controversial politics, geopolitics, international relations, theme of the South China Sea (SCS) disputes. economics, finance, strategy, culture and It contains insights by scholars mostly from Republic of China (Taiwan), society, together with the role of management education in developing along with ones from Peoples’ Republic of China (mainland China), the entrepreneurs’ capabilities for success. The book also explores the basis Philippines, Australia, and the United States (US). upon which Chinese firms can compete outside their domestic market by using a Four Cs’ framework. Readership: Policymakers, academics, professionals, undergraduate and graduate students interested in South China Sea disputes. Readership: General readers. 224pp May 2018 236pp Jul 2018 978-981-3234-88-8 US$98 £86 978-981-3235-93-9 US$58 £51 China’s Township System 2030 Vision for ASEAN-China Governance and Reform Strategic Partnership by Licai Wu (Central China Normal Perspectives from Think-Tanks University, China) edited by Yanjun Guo (China Foreign Affairs This book is based on an empirical research on University, China) the governance and reform of the contemporary This book assesses ASEAN-China Strategic township system in China. It provides an Partnership in the past 15 years by taking stock insightful and innovative understanding of China’s township system. 22 of the implementation of existing ASEAN-China cooperation frameworks, mechanisms and Key Features: programs; defines overall goals and guiding ○ Based on long-term research on the reform of China’s principles of the ASEAN-China Strategic Partnership toward the end township system of 2030; sets specific targets, to be reached in 2030, for political and ○ First-hand material based on a large number of investigations security cooperation, economic cooperation, and people-to-people ○ Original propositions on the reform of China’s township system exchanges between ASEAN and China and offers strategies for the 2030 Vision to be aligned with the ASEAN Community Vision 2025 and Readership: Policy-makers, professionals, academics, undergraduates the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in the three pillars of and graduate students interested in the governance and reform of China’s ASEAN-China cooperation. township system.

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Interpreting China’s Legal Series on Contemporary China - Vol 41 System Moralization of China by (UC Berkeley) edited by Lin Li (Chinese Academy of Social Xin Liu Sciences, China) Alongside China’s vast material development, there came a change of its mental habits, This book systematically and concisely largely affected by the technological revolution expounds the construction process of China’s in the means of mass communication. This legal system since China’s reform and book shows how such a change has brought opening-up. — and yet been brought by — a new form of pictorial thought, essentially sensuous and Key Features: imagery, which is suggesting a possible future ○ Provides comprehensive and for the world. This study traces the birth of “ordinary people” to the systematic analysis of China’s legal system beginning of the century, when the reformation of the political in terms of personal dilemmas or moral groans began. Readership: Policymakers, professionals, academics, undergraduate and graduate students interested in China’s legal system. Readership: Policymakers, academics, professionals, undergraduate and graduate students. 548pp Feb 2018 978-981-3231-30-6 US$158 £139 220pp Jan 2018 978-981-3230-22-4 US$98 £86

Farewell to China’s GDP Series on Innovation and Operations Worship Management for Chinese Enterprises - Vol 1 by Jinzao Li (China National Tourism Independent Innovation in China Administration, China) Theory and Cases by Huibo Zhong (Beijing Institute of Based on the outstanding research findings Technology, China) & Jiasu Lei (Tsinghua of many visionaries and the initial practices University, China) in some local areas in recent years, this book proposes to switch the focus to multi- Using a combination of theoretical analysis dimensional and comprehensive indicators and case studies, this book analyses the from GDP alone and establish a new economic theoretical issues — concept and type of independent innovation, and the practical and social evaluation system, that is, abandon the GDP-centred issues — construction of institutional system which is in favor of evaluation system or GDP worship and adopt a comprehensive independent innovation. It is written for researchers who are engaged in evaluation system for economic and social development embodying the similar fields and readers who are interested in independent innovation. scientific outlook on development — the comprehensive development In this book, a comparison of the independent innovation modes of China, index (CDI). Japan and South Korea is presented. The ability, mode and track are defined clearly. The efficient path of Chinese independent innovation is Readership: This book is intended for members of the general public put forward through case studies. as well as professionals with an interest in China and its development. Readership: Researchers, students and the general public who are 324pp Feb 2018 interested in innovation. 978-981-3220-23-2 US$118 £98 436pp Jan 2018 978-981-3209-89-3 US$148 £123 Multilateral Approach in China’s Foreign Policy NOTABLE TITLES by Joseph Yu-Shek Cheng China and Latin America edited by Zhenxing Su This volume carefully examines China’s China’s Development increased participation in multilateral by Litao Zhao organizations and mechanisms and its efforts Social Construction in Contemporary China to initiate and develop its own discourses on by Xueyi Lu 23 global affairs straddling Asia, the Middle East, The Rise of the Regulatory State in the Chinese Health-care Africa and the Latin American continents. System by Jiwei Qian China’s presence in international multilateral China’s Economic Statecraft organizations has been providing developing countries a better chance edited by Mingjiang Li to maintain a balance of power. Since China has no ambitious plan to South Korea in the United Nations transform the existing international order, its increasing enthusiastic by Gabriel Jonsson engagement of multilateralism is likely to be accepted by the international The Economies of China and India community. Editor-in-chief: John Whalley Spillover Effects of China Going Global Readership: Policymakers, academics, professionals, undergraduate by Joseph Pelzman and graduate students interested in China’s foreign policy. The Origins of Japanese – Chinese Territorial Dispute 704pp Feb 2018 by Tadayoshi Murata 978-981-3221-10-9 US$188 £165 The Making of an Economic Superpower by Yi Wen

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When Trees Fall, Monkeys Scatter The New Silk Road: China Meets Rethinking Democracy in China Europe in the Baltic Sea Region by John Keane (University of Sydney, Australia) A Business Perspective When Trees Fall, Monkeys Scatter shows why edited by Jean-Paul Larçon (HEC Paris, France) locally-made democratic practices often favour This book focuses on the business and one-party rule and why China is becoming a economic dimensions of China’s initiative: globally significant political laboratory: a 21st Chinese government objective and policies, the century testing ground for a new type of top- strategies of Chinese and foreign firms along down popular government at odds with power- the Silk Road, trade and investment between sharing democracy as it was known during the China and Nordic-Baltic countries, the Eurasia past generation. Examples probed in this book Land Bridge corridors and logistics, the impact of the New Silk Road on include the injection of accountability mechanisms into state bureaucracy, the economies of Central Asia, new institutions financing the “Belt and the toleration of independent public opinion leaders, the growing reliance Road”, cross-cultural challenges and Sino-foreign joint ventures along of Party officials and corporate executives on public opinion polls and the New Silk Road. Readers will be provided with an in-depth analysis ‘democratic style’, and the calculated use by Party officials of digitally of the opportunities and challenges for companies and regions along networked media as early warning devices. the New Silk Road. Readership: Students and teachers, researchers and general readers. Readership: Managers, policy makers, academics and graduate 196pp Oct 2017 students. 978-1-78634-359-8 US$58 £48 288pp Jul 2017 978-981-3221-80-2 US$108 £90 EAI Series on East Asia Contemporary South Korean Art of Modern Oriental Economy: Challenges and Management Prospects Applying the Chinese, Japanese and by Min-Hua Chiang (East Asian Institute, Korean Management Styles at Work NUS, Singapore) by Sing Ong Yu (Southern University College, Malaysia) This book provides an analytical overview of key issues in contemporary South Korean This book aims to present an overview of economy. The timely and in-depth study Chinese, Japanese and Korean modern presented in the book examines the main management styles. The cultures of reasons behind South Korea’s economic slowdown in recent years, China, Japan and Korea are influenced by the economic and social impact following chaebol’s growing business Confucianism, Daoism and Buddhism. As such, there are some basic expansion, free trade agreements with China and the United States, similarities in their management styles. This book looks at Oriental the development of income inequality, the ageing demography and management from a modern perspective, that is, the fusion of Western the Korean government’s policy response to overcome the current and Eastern management styles. By using a multifaceted approach to economic difficulties. understanding modern Oriental management, the author stresses the Readership: Policymakers, academics, professionals, undergraduate complexities of the business environment in China, Japan and Korea. and graduate students. Readership: General readers 168pp Aug 2017 272pp Jun 2017 978-981-3207-23-3 US$88 £73 978-981-3220-31-7 US$68 £56 978-981-3220-32-4(pbk) US$38 £33 EAI Series on East Asia China’s Economy in NOTABLE TITLES Transformation under the China’s Political Dynamics under Xi Jinping by Zhiyue Bo New Normal Zhu Rongji and China’s Economic Take-Off edited by Sarah Y Tong & Jing Wan by John Wong 24 (East Asian Institute, NUS, Singapore) The Much Troubled Alliance by Emeritus Hsi-sheng Ch’i This book examines the recent development and prospect of the Chinese economy as Japan’s Demographic Revival edited by Stephen Robert Nagy the country adapts to changing domestic and external settings. The book discusses Carnival China by several matters considered important to China’s social and economic Kerry Brown cohesion including the management of agricultural product reserves, Another China Cycle the development of a functioning social security system and regional by Gungwu Wang development. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of China’s China’s Trade, Exchange Rate and Industrial Policy Structure economy and identifies the recent developments that matter to China’s edited by John Whalley economic future. China edited by Gungwu Wang & Yongnian Zheng Readership: Policymakers, academics, professionals, undergraduate Goh Keng Swee on China and graduate students. edited by Yongnian Zheng & John Wong 244pp Aug 2017 APEC and the Rise of China edited by Lok Sang Ho & John Wong 978-981-3208-19-3 US$88 £73

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Business Development, Merger China in Comparative Perspective and Crisis Management of by Stephan Feuchtwang & Hans Steinmüller International Firms in Japan (London School of Economics, UK) Featuring Case Studies from Fortune China in Comparative Perspective provides 500 Companies an overview of China based on empirical edited by Parissa Haghirian observation by field workers, as well as on (Sophia University, Japan) historical documents, Chinese literary and philosophical texts and core theoretical Providing rare insight into the topic of Japanese frameworks in the social sciences. It enables management, this book looks at how Japanese readers to develop ways of putting the modern companies changed after the economic history, politics, economy and society of China recession of the 1990s and the decade-long restructuring process. With into a framework in which China can be compared and contrasted with 12 case studies, this book investigates crisis management, strategy other countries. This book is a comprehensive course for postgraduate development, merger and globalization in a structured and descriptive students in Chinese and Asian studies, anthropology, sociology, political manner. It aims to support students and decision-makers to learn more economy, politics and international relations. about strategic Japanese management and effective decision-making. Readership: Students in Chinese and South-Asian studies, Readership: This book is intended for students and professionals anthropology, politics and international relations. interested in finding out more about Japanese management. 308pp Apr 2017 240pp Aug 2018 978-1-78634-238-6 US$118 £98 978-981-3234-21-5 US$98 £86 978-1-78634-239-3(pbk) US$58 £48 Southeast Asia and China The Anthropology of China A Contest in Mutual Socialization China as Ethnographic and Theoretical edited by Lowell Dittmer (UC Berkeley) & Critique Chow Bing Ngeow (University of Malaya, by Charlotte Bruckermann & Stephan Malaysia) Feuchtwang (London School of Economics, UK) Southeast Asia and China: A Contest in This book introduces a number of key Mutual Socialization brings together experts themes and in each case describes how the from different disciplines to illuminate on the anthropology and ethnography of China relates complex political, economic and normative to the surrounding theories and issues. The interactions between China and the Southeast themes chosen include the anthropology of Asian countries. This book analyses key issues intimacy, of morality, of food and of feasting, including the national identity discourse of China as a Great Power, as well as the anthropology of civilisation, modernity and the state.The China’s civil-military interactions in its strategy in the South China Sea Anthropology of China covers both long historical perspectives and dispute, the different kinds of political and strategic strategies used by ethnographies of the twenty-first century. For the first time, ethnographic Southeast Asian countries in countering China, the past patterns and perspectives on China are contextualised in comparison with general present trajectories of economic ties between China and Southeast Asian anthropological debates countries, as well as the strategic implications of China’s 21st Century Maritime Silk Road initiative. Readership: Professional researchers and teachers, and for advanced undergraduate and graduate study. Readership: Academics, policymakers, professionals, and undergraduate and graduate students interested in relations between 292pp Sep 2016 China and Southeast Asian countries. 978-1-78326-982-2 US$95 £79 978-1-78326-983-9(pbk) US$45 £37 300pp Mar 2017 978-981-3146-87-7 US$98 £81 NOTABLE TITLES The Domestic Dynamics of China’s Energy Diplomacy The Power of Ideas by Chi Zhang The Rising Influence of Thinkers and Political Participation in Asia Think Tanks in China by Ginger L Denton by Cheng Li (Brookings Institution, USA) Science in China, 1600 – 1900 edited by Yi Kai Ho 25 “The study includes a thorough inventory of Chinese Politics Illustrated China’s research institutions (government and by Lance L P Gore private), and it offers compelling case studies Superpower, China? of four leading public intellectuals. But the by Niv Horesh, Hyun Jin Kim & Peter Mauch best part is Cheng Li’s own deep insights into China’s Economic and Social Problems this community of thinkers and institutions, by Gregory C Chow their relative strengths and weaknesses, and Interpreting China’s Economy impact on China’s domestic and foreign policies. This volume should by Gregory C Chow be mandatory reading for all China specialists.” Korea: A Century of Change David Shambaugh, George Washington University by Juergen Kleiner Readership: Students, researchers, and academics. Pioneers of Modern China by Lee Khoon Choy 372pp May 2017 Mapping China’s Growth and Development in the Long Run, 978-981-3100-22-0 US$128 £106 221 BC to 2020 978-981-3232-18-1(pbk) US$48 £42 by Kent G Deng

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The China Horizon China’s Belt and Road Glory and Dream of a Civilizational State Initiatives and Its Neighboring by Weiwei Zhang (Fudan University, China & Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, China) Diplomacy edited by Jie Zhang (Chinese Academy of “Zhang Weiwei is the confident and highly Social Sciences, China) articulate voice of the new China. Neither defensive nor triumphalist, he eloquently This book studies China’s Belt and Road explains what lies behind China’s rise and Initiatives and the country’s neighboring what the future is likely to hold. Hitherto the diplomacy. This book focuses on analysis of most widely read authors on China in the the initiatives and the responses from the major West have been Westerners. It is imperative powers, neighboring countries and regions. that Westerners become familiar with the key Chinese writers; and This is the first English book on China’s Belt Zhang Weiwei is the most prominent of them all. The China Horizon and Road Initiatives and its neighboring diplomacy deserves the widest readership in both China and the West, and around Readership: Academics, policy-makers, undergraduate and graduate the world.” students. Martin Jacques author of When China Rules the World 316pp Dec 2016 978-981-3140-20-2 US$118 £98 Readership: Researchers, policy-makers, general readers interested in the rise of China, its model of development and its global impact. EAI Series on East Asia 196pp Jun 2016 Politics, Culture and Identities 978-1-938134-72-2 US$55 £46 in East Asia 978-1-938134-73-9(pbk) US$24 £20 Integration and Division edited by Peng Er Lam (East Asian Institute, China’s One Belt One Road NUS, Singapore), et al. Initiative This edited book reflects the “yin-yang” of by Tai Wei Lim (East Asian Institute, NUS, East Asia — the analogy of co-existing “hot Singapore), et al. and cold” trends in that region. Another focus of this volume is on the politics of identity. “The book captures a comprehensive The distinctiveness, character and flavour of historical background to OBOR, with a careful a group, real or imagined, can be “cool”. “Cool” as in being charming documentation of voyages by Cheng Ho and appealing transcends national boundaries. Plurality and diversity (1405 to 1433) from China across Asia toward of identities and cultures in East Asia can be a celebration of life and Europe, to as far as North Africa. What is humanity. However, xenophobic identities, often based on exclusive race, eminently clear is that the book makes a good language, religion and hegemony, and its subsequent politicisation can starting point, especially from the historical rend a nation apart. Indeed, the affirmation of one’s identity may be at beginnings as equally originating from China's point of view.” the expense or denial of the identity of “the other”. Associate Professor Linda Low Singapore University of Social Sciences Readership: Policymakers, academics, professionals, undergraduate and graduate students. Readership: Academics, undergraduate and graduates students, professionals and policy makers interested in China’s One Belt One Road 144pp Nov 2017 Initiative, China’s economic development and foreign policy. 978-981-3226-22-7 US$88 £77 356pp Sep 2016 978-1-78326-929-7 US$115 £95 NOTABLE TITLES Song Dynasty Tales Asia-Pacific Business Series - Vol 8 by Zhenjun Zhang & Jing Wang Formal Aspects of Chinese Grammar Catalyst for Change by Jie Xu Chinese Business in Asia Globalization, Consumption and Popular Culture in East Asia edited by Thomas Menkhoff (Singapore by Tai Wei Lim, et al. Management University, Singapore), et all. 26 Ethnicities, Personalities and Politics in the Ethnic Chinese This book serves as a textbook for courses on Worlds Asian studies with a focus on ethnic Chinese by Ching-hwang Yen entrepreneurs and business management Tang Dynasty Tales in Asia. It provides a comprehensive Asian by William H Nienhauser, Jr. perspective on the organizational peculiarities Essays of Lim Boon Keng on Confucianism and changing business practices of ethnic by ChunBao Yan Chinese businesses and their leaders who continue to form the backbone China Under Western Gaze of Asia’s dynamic economies. by Qing Cao Readership: Undergraduate students, researchers, managers and I Ching professionals who are interested in Asian business and management. by Kerson Huang The Great Equal Society 508pp Oct 2013 by Young-oak Kim & Jung-kyu Kim 978-981-4452-41-0 US$138 £121 Confucianism, Chinese History and Society 978-981-3224-86-5(pbk) US$58 £51 edited by Wong Sin Kiong

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A Ray of Hope Community Development Inspiring Stories of 50 Singapore Sports Icons Arenas in Singapore by (SPIN Worldwide Pte Ltd, Singapore) Jose Raymond edited by S Vasoo (National University of Featuring the likes of Oon Jin Teik, Joscelin Yeo, Ang Peng Siong, Singapore, Singapore), et al. Hariss Harun, Fandi Ahmad and Yip Pin Xiu, A Ray of Hope captures Through the insights of contributors who are the thoughts and ideas of these Singapore sports icons. They tell their practitioners in the community development stories through their personal and professional lenses and also offer field, this book argues that more resources ideas on improving the local sports industry. This book is a tribute to and initiatives must be accorded to community those who helped shape the sports scene in Singapore. organisations so as to redirect to a community- Readership: Sports enthusiasts as well as stakeholders who are or resident-centric approach towards involved in Singapore’s sports industry. community work intervention. Covering a broad range of arenas, this book will open up a wider horizon for community development efforts 250pp May 2020 and provide a reservoir of ideas and strategies to build a stronger and 978-981-120-516-3 US$58 £50 resilient community for more effective community problem-solving. 978-981-120-405-0(pbk) US$30 £25 Readership: Students, social workers, community leaders and policy makers interested in community development issues, in particular to Special Needs Education the Singapore context. Trends and Issues in Singapore 250pp Oct 2019 by Meng Ee Wong & Levan Lim (National Institute of Education, 978-981-120-411-1 US$88 £75 Singapore)

This book provides an overview of significant topics within the field of special needs education in Singapore in terms of their key trends and Memoirs of a Flying Tiger developments, current realities and needs, followed by a critical and The Story of a WWII Veteran and SIA constructive analysis of what can be addressed to promote inclusivity and Pioneer Pilot to enhance the lives of persons with disabilities. This seminal textbook by Weng Toh Ho will serve as a compendium of extant local research on special needs This book is a poignant story of a small- and integrate relevant international research and examples of exemplary town boy, who stumbled into a lifelong flying practices. The textbook engages readers to re-imagine and re-envision career spanning 38 years as a pilot. Now a more inclusive and positive future for persons with disabilities in at 99, Captain Ho Weng Toh, one of the Singapore, based upon a broad contextual understanding of historical last few remaining Flying Tigers, recalls the and current realities, and practices that have affected their lives. many events that shaped his life. It takes the Readership: Students, researchers and the public. readers through his journey of good and bad years, the trials and tribulations encountered, his journey from being a 200pp Aug 2020 refugee student to becoming a Chinese Air Force B-25 bomber pilot, 978-981-4678-54-4 US$78 £65 his will to live, the burning desire to contribute towards the WWII effort 978-981-4667-13-5(pbk) US$38 £32 and his endurance of all the trials and hardships all alone and often in silent solitude. Serving Singapore Readership: Readers interested in knowing about the last surviving My Journey flying tiger of Singapore. by (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, V K Rajan 150pp Oct 2019 Kingdom of Bahrain) 978-981-120-543-9 US$58 £50 This book by a pioneer generation civil servant 978-981-120-643-6(pbk) US$28 £25 is a fascinating and an engaging account of Singapore’s spectacular development from a sleepy backwater village to a first world Independence ‘65 State within a single generation and defying, Was Singapore Booted Out? in the process, all odds against its survival. by Edmund Wee Kiat Lim (Singapore International School, Thailand) The success achieved and the many lessons learnt therefrom have This book takes a behind-the-scenes look at the events leading up to universal application and had attracted global interest. The story is 27 Singapore’s historic split from Malaysia. The primary sources linked very well illustrated with compelling and illuminating insights and richly to the independence of Singapore and the variety of perspectives will complemented by the author’s anecdotal observations throughout. prompt readers to reexamine the traditional narrative of this vital moment Readership: Readers interested in knowing the story of Singapore’s in Singapore history. The lesser known story told in Independence ‘65 transformation to a first-world city-state. will allow Singaporeans to better comprehend the effort that went into Singapore’s conception as an independent state. 200pp Dec 2019 978-981-120-557-6 US$38 £35 Readership: Singaporeans, both primary and secondary students as a resource for Singapore history/social studies.

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Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir Munsyi The TENG Guide to the Chinese His Voyages and Legacies (In 2 Volumes) Orchestra by Hadijah Rahmat (National Institute of Education, Singapore) by Chenwei Wang, Junyi Chow & Samuel This book, Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir Munsyi: His Life, Voyages, and Wong (The TENG Company, Singapore) Legacies, is the most comprehensive, multi-disciplinary studies on The TENG Guide to the Chinese Orchestra is Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir, widely known as Munsyi Abdullah (1796 – a seminal guide to equip composers, scholars 1854). He was a prominent literary figure and thinker in the Malay world and music enthusiasts worldwide with the in the 19th century and was also an early ‘pioneer’ of Singapore. This necessary knowledge to work with Chinese book provides new insight into Abdullah’s life, backgrounds, writings, his musical instruments. The INSTRUMENTATION influences and legacies and the reactions and thought provoking views section outlines the history, physical attributes of the western and eastern scholars on Abdullah. The book is indeed and performance techniques of Chinese musical instruments in detail. the key reference for studies on Munsyi Abdullah, Malay literature, and It also includes practical scoring advice for composers and reference the history of Singapore, Malaysia, and colonialism in Southeast Asia. charts for fingerings and chords. The ORCHESTRATION section Readership: Students and researchers. contains systematic analyses of score excerpts from Chinese orchestra pieces spanning the last 60 years to demonstrate how Chinese musical 800pp Dec 2019 instruments work together in an orchestra. 978-981-120-579-8(Set) US$145 £130 978-981-120-720-4(Set)(pbk) US$75 £65 Readership: Composers, conductors, music educators, music scholars and players of Chinese instruments.

624pp Aug 2019 Collected Readings on 978-981-3233-64-5 US$98 £85 Community Development in 978-981-3235-17-5(pbk) US$58 £50 Singapore edited by S Vasoo (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Is the People’s Action Party Here to Stay? The book carries a collection of articles written Analysing the Resilience of the One- by Professor S Vasoo over the past three Party Dominant State in Singapore decades or so on community development by Bilveer Singh (National University of work and its issues in the Singapore context. Singapore, Singapore) Organised around seven themes that can be or are being addressed by community development, the articles illustrate This book examines the PAP staying power how community development intervention has been applied on social of the People’s Action Party, a political party issues like juvenile delinquency, ageing population, family values, and that has governed Singapore since June 1959. urban dwelling. Community and social workers can find some resonance A political titan with few chinks in its armour, to the work and challenges they are facing in community problem-solving the party has kept winning elections under three prime ministers and and meeting the needs of people in various neighbourhoods. Singapore is about to witness a transition to the fourth prime minister. The party’s seemingly unstoppable sterling performance makes the issue of Readership: Students, social workers, community leaders and policy the durability of the PAP highly critical. In light of the serious weakness makers. of the opposition and the strong performance legitimacy of the ruling 300pp Sep 2019 party, it is worthwhile asking the question, can the PAP stumble and fall? 978-981-120-382-4 US$98 £85 Readership: Researchers, students, policymakers and those interested in the politics and governance of Singapore. My GP, My Mental Healthcare 200pp Sep 2019 Provider 978-981-120-009-0 US$78 £70 A Tertiary-Primary Care Collaboration 978-981-120-145-5(pbk) US$38 £35 for Community Mental Healthcare edited by Hong Choon Chua & Daniel Fung (Institute of Mental Health, Singapore) The Sound of Memories Recordings from the Oral History This book documents the journey of the Centre, Singapore Mental Health-General Practitioner (MH-GP) by Suk-Wai Cheong Partnership Programme at the Singapore Institute of Mental Health (IMH) since 2003 and The Sound of Memories: Recordings from 28 how it has developed over the years as a model of successful tertiary- the Oral History Centre, Singapore features primary care partnership in mental health. It can serve as a reference the happy, funny, poignant and bittersweet — guide for agencies, both government and private, in Singapore and but always heartwarming and unforgettable regionally, who plan to develop similar partnerships. It will interest a — stories, memories and anecdotes of wide audience from medical, allied health professionals, administrators Singaporeans from all walks of life. Distilled and students across healthcare and educational sector. from almost 5, 000 interviews that the National Archives of Singapore’s Oral History Centre has collected since 1979, these recordings describe 180pp Feb 2020 the experiences of everyman, from tycoons and tailors to chief executive 978-981-3273-82-5 US$75 £65 officers and chief cooks.

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A General History of the Singapore Perspectives Chinese in Singapore Singapore Perspectives edited by Chong Guan Kwa (Nanyang Singapore. World Technological University, Singapore) & edited by Ariel Tan, Andrew Lim & Rachel Bak Lim Kua (Singapore Federation of Hau (Institute of Policy Studies, Singapore) Chinese Clan Associations, Singapore) This book is a collection of speeches presented The book documents over 700 years of at Singapore Perspectives 2019 by current Singapore’s history from her early years, players in international relations and leading even before Sir Stamford Raffles’ arrival. academics and opinion shapers on how the More specifically, it documents the life and post-Cold War world order, with emphasis on development of the Chinese community in Singapore, as well as the role the relations between the United States and China, will affect small states of the Chinese community in growing the nation’s economic, societal, like Singapore and countries in Southeast Asia — at local, national, and cultural and even political scenes. regional levels. It features speeches by prominent personalities. Each speaker presents a fresh perspective on important developments in the Readership: Researchers, students, historians and the general public world today. interested in the history of the Chinese community in Singapore. Readership: Students, academics, policy makers, corporate sector 800pp Aug 2019 officials and civil society activists, and general public. 978-981-3277-63-2 US$148 £130 978-981-3278-32-5(pbk) US$88 £75 108pp May 2019 978-981-120-742-6 US$68 £60 978-981-120-478-4(pbk) US$38 £35 A Teacher’s Race Course Ruminations and Reflections History of Modern Physical Sciences - Vol 4 by Siok Hui Sie Rocks, Radio and Radar “Ms Sie speaks to us from beyond, sharing The Extraordinary Scientific, Social and heartfelt stories, moving anecdotes and Military Life of Elizabeth Alexander sharp pedagogical insights in her authentic, by Mary Harris (University College London understated, ever-concerned voice. Her Institute of Education, UK) observations of the Singapore education system, pedagogical scholarship and tips on This book tells the story of Elizabeth Alexander, what works are valuable for all involved in a pioneering scientist who changed thinking teaching, mentoring, nurturing — they come from someone who gave in geology and radio astronomy during WWII her life to education, in the fullest sense of the word.” and its aftermath.Building on an unpublished diary, recently declassified government records Sim Chi Yin and archive material adding considerably to knowledge about radar first Asian Nobel Peace Prize photographer developments in the Pacific in WWII, this book also contextualises Magnum photographer and doctoral researcher Elizabeth’s academic life in Singapore before the war, and the country’s Readership: Teachers, curriculum designers, educational leaders, educational and physical reconstruction after it as it moved towards parents and anyone interested in a Singaporean educator’s teaching independence. journey. Readership: General readers, historians, people interested in the history of geology and radar. 180pp Jul 2019 978-981-120-715-0 US$36 £30 616pp May 2019 978-981-120-716-7(pbk) US$18.50 £15 978-1-78634-664-3 US$148 £130

Much More Than Academic Sir Stamford Raffles and Abilities Some of His Friends and edited by David Chan (Singapore Contemporaries Management University, Singapore) A Memoir of the Founder of Singapore What non-academic factors do we need to by John Bastin pay more attention to? How do we approach This book — written by Dr John Bastin, a the issues and effect changes with meaningful leading authority on the study of Sir Stamford impact? What is the relationship between Raffles — offers an alternative biographical 29 education, work and various notions of account of Raffles, as seen through his success? How are academic and non- relationship with some of his closest friends academic factors related to civil society and politics, and what lessons and contemporaries. Examining Raffles and his social circle presents can we learn from mistakes and successes in the ways we use or treat an original perspective of the man and of the colonial world in which he these related abilities, attributes or attitudes? This book explores these lived. The book is a highly original contribution to the study of Raffles in and other issues about going beyond academic abilities This book will the bicentenary year of his founding of Singapore. provide new perspectives and possibilities on what it means to say “much more than academic abilities”, as we aspire to live a better life, make a Readership: Academics, historians and the general public interested positive difference to others, and build a stronger society. in Raffles and the history of Singapore.

Readership: General public, parents, educators, teachers, students 488pp May 2019 and the general public. 978-981-3277-66-3 US$148 £130 978-981-3278-33-2(pbk) US$88 £75 188pp Jul 2019 978-981-120-585-9 US$36 £30

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My Maternal Roots Educating for Empathy A Story of Family, Faith and Freedom Service Learning in Public Policy by Cyprian Lim Education edited by J J Woo (Education University of In this book, Cyprian Lim chronicles the Hong Kong, Hong Kong) ups and downs of his family, capturing 20 generations of the Lee Clan from the first Educating for Empathy: Service Learning in person who established the lineage in the Public Policy Education, will introduce readers late Yuan dynasty to the present day. He has to the concept of service learning and how painstakingly pieced together his lineage it can be applied to higher education. While from a collection of historical documents, service learning has been recognized as a supplemented by interviews with eye witnesses and protagonists to useful pedagogical tool that can enhance students’ learning experience, present a fascinating personal history. Of particular interest is the family’s the application and practice of service learning in Singapore has been links to the Catholic faith. Paul’s contribution as a respected towkay to limited. It will cover the policy, pedagogical, and socio-political aspects the development of Singapore’s Catholic community is chronicled, as of service learning and include insights from students and stakeholders. is the legacy of his son and grandsons who have served the Catholic The book will also provide both education and policy professionals a population in Malaysia and Singapore as Catholic priests. greater understanding of how their work can intersect, and provide students with a highly rewarding learning experience. Readership: The general public; Historians and genealogist. Readership: Students, educational professionals and industry 300pp May 2019 professionals. 978-981-140-182-4 US$65 £55 978-981-140-183-1(pbk) US$37 £35 200pp Mar 2019 978-981-120-278-0 US$78 £70 Insights on Singapore’s Advanced Research on Asian Economy and Politics and Governance Economies of Other Continents - Vol 10 from Leading Thinkers Economic Dynamism, From the Institute of Policy Openness, and Inclusion Studies’ Singapore Perspectives How Singapore Can Make the by Institute of Policy Studies, Singapore Transition from an Era of Catch-up This book presents insights on Singapore’s Growth to Life in a Mature Economy politics and governance from leading thinkers, by Hian Teck Hoon (Singapore based on selected commentaries from Management University, Singapore) Singapore Perspectives conference series co- This volume provides a theory of Singapore’s published by Institute of Policy Studies and World Scientific. Contributed economic development. With a coherent theory capable of explaining by the who’s who of Singapore’s government, business and academia how Singapore got to where it is, the book analyses how the future might circles, they provide diverse viewpoints over state – society relations, look like for the Singapore economy. With its forward-looking analysis, governing principles, electoral politics, foreign policy, among other this book is valuable to students as it weaves macroeconomic data important issues. together with growth theory and highlights the interaction of economic Readership: Students, academics, policy makers, corporate sector forces with social influences and political institutions. It also serves as officials and civil society activists, and general public. a good reference for other emerging economies that, like Singapore, want to avoid the middle-income trap, and for researchers interested in 204pp May 2019 analysing the economic possibilities for current and future Singaporeans. 978-981-120-484-5 US$58 £50 978-981-120-502-6(pbk) US$28 £25 Readership: Undergraduate students of economic theory and macroeconomics, researchers, general public. Insights on Singapore’s 176pp Jan 2019 Economy and Society from 978-981-3236-22-6 US$78 £69 Leading Thinkers From the Institute of Policy Public Trust in Singapore Studies’Singapore Perspectives edited by David Chan (Singapore by Institute of Policy Studies, Singapore Management University, Singapore) This book will provide the reader new 30 This book presents insights on Singapore’s economy and society from leading thinkers, perspectives and possibilities related to based on selected commentaries from questions that have become more salient in Singapore Perspectives conference series co- recent years as Singapore society underwent published by Institute of Policy Studies and World Scientific. Contributed significant changes that likely impact on the by the who’s who of Singapore’s government, business and academia nature and level of public trust. circles, they provide diverse viewpoints over economic transformation, Readership: General public, civil servants, globalisation and regionalism, national identity, emerging group NGOs, academics, school teachers; researchers and students differences, ageing, among other important issues. specializing in social responsibility courses. Readership: Students, academics, policy makers, corporate sector 180pp Feb 2019 officials and civil society activists, and general public. 978-981-3279-63-6 US$58 £50 236pp May 2019 978-981-120-487-6 US$58 £50 978-981-120-503-3(pbk) US$28 £25

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IPS-Nathan Lecture Series The IPS-Nathan Lectures series was launched by the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) in 2014. It is part of the S R Nathan Fellowship for the Study of Singapore. The Fellowship was set up to fund further research into public policy, with the S R Nathan Fellow, who is appointed annually, delivering between four and six lectures each year. These lectures aim to advance public understanding and discussion of issues of critical national interest.

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IPS-Nathan Lecture Series Dealing with an Ambiguous World Seeking a Better Urban Future by Bilahari Kausikan by Koon Hean Cheong (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore) Dr Cheong Koon Hean, CEO of the Housing and One of Singapore’s top diplomats, Development Board (2010 – Present) was the Institute Bilahari Kausikan was the Institute of Policy Studies’ 5th S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of of Policy Studies’ (IPS) 2015/16 S Singapore. Climate change, an ageing population, anti- R Nathan Fellow for the Study of globalisation sentiments the world over, technological Singapore. Kausikan gives a frank disruption, and social media all pose unique problems and and dispassionate assessment opportunities to cities. Dr Cheong examines how cities of the international environment deal with their urban challenges to create a better life for in the post-Cold War era and the their citizens. In particular, what are the considerations needed to plan and develop geopolitical uncertainties that have Singapore in the face of rapid change and uncertainty, given our constraints as a emerged. In particular, he analyses small city-state with an open economy? the nature of US – China relations, 164pp Jan 2019 the broad underlying factors in the 978-981-3279-39-1 US$48 £40 South China Sea disputes and ASEAN’s attempts to maintain 978-981-3279-96-4(pbk) US$28 £25 order, and the role that human rights and democracy have played in international relations. He concludes by suggesting what Singapore needs to do to cope with the complexities Can Singapore Fall? that lie ahead, in this age without definition. Making the Future for Singapore 176pp Dec 2016 by Lim Siong Guan (Lee Kuan Yew School of Public 978-981-3201-99-6 US$50 £42 Policy, National University of Singapore, Singapore) 978-981-3202-00-9(pbk) US$24 £20 Lim Siong Guan, Singapore’s former Head of Civil Service (1999–2005) was the Institute of Policy Studies’ 4th S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore. Lim addresses The Ocean in a Drop the question, “Can Singapore Fall?”, by examining the Singapore: The Next Fifty Years state of Singapore today and proposing what Singapore by Kwon Ping Ho and Singaporeans must do in order to prevent economic and social decline. Taking inspiration from Sir John Glubb’s Ho Kwon Ping was the 2014/15 essay, The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival, Lim urges Singaporeans S R Nathan Fellow for the Study to counter decline by observing the “three legs of honour”: Trust, Diversity, and of Singapore. Ho looks forward Excellence. These include becoming a gracious society and building up a culture to the next 50 years, offering of innovation, excellence and outwardness. innovative ideas and robust views on how governance and key 126pp Jul 2018 institutions can evolve to ensure 978-981-3238-07-7 US$48 £42 the sustainable continuation of 978-981-3238-62-6(pbk) US$25 £22 Singapore — the “improbable nation”. This book illuminates Ho’s vision of a cohesively diverse The Challenges of Governance in a Singapore lasting beyond the Complex World lifespan of his generation, and aims to get the young to 31 by Peter Ho ponder and discuss the kind of home, and future, they wish for. Peter Ho, former Head of the Singapore Civil Service, was the Institute of Policy Studies’ 2016/17 S R Nathan Fellow 156pp Jan 2016 for the Study of Singapore. Ho surveys the increasingly 978-981-4730-17-4 US$48 £40 complex world, and suggests what governments can do 978-981-4730-18-1(pbk) US$25 £21 to prepare for the future — even as no one can predict it. He uses metaphors such as the “black elephant” and concepts like the “dialectic of governance” to explain how a systematic approach to thinking about the future can help countries in general — and Singapore in particular — build resilience and develop a comparative advantage in the face of uncertainty and rapid change. Book Series 172pp Jan 2018 More information visit: 978-981-3231-82-5 US$45 £40 https://www.worldscientific.com/series/ipsnls 978-981-3233-74-4(pbk) US$28 £25

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National Service in Singapore Singapore Perspectives edited by Shu Huang Ho & Graham Ong- Singapore Perspectives 2018 Webb (S. Rajaratnam School of International Together Studies, Nanyang Technological University, edited by Christopher Gee (Institute of Singapore) Policy Studies, Singapore), et al.

With over 1 million male Singapore citizens Singaporeans enjoy one of the longest and permanent residents having served the lifespans in the world today. Singapore is also National Service, and consequently involving one of the most rapidly ageing societies in the many more — family members, friends, world. Given these population trends, business employers and colleagues — in different ways, and workers, individuals and families will NS is deeply woven into Singapore’s political experience significant changes in the way they work, play and organise and social fabric. This volume brings together a range of scholarly their lives together. This book, by leading thought leaders and eminent perspectives on NS which explore its past, present and future in four speakers on how our economic, political and social institutions can best sections: The history of NS, NS in practice, debates on NS and an adapt to and manage a rapidly ageing population. Contributors to this international perspective. Comprising chapters by individuals from varied book tackle the urgent need to shape mind-sets, policies and decisions backgrounds, National Service in Singapore offers a broad account of today for the best outcomes for current and future generations. one of Singapore’s oldest public policies. Readership: Students, academics, policy makers, corporate sector Readership: Undergraduate and graduate students, military officials and civil society activists, and general public. professionals and those who are interested in Singapore’s defence policies and their impacts. 136pp Oct 2018 978-981-3276-25-3(pbk) US$48 £40 280pp Jan 2019 978-981-3149-21-2 US$78 £65 978-981-3203-03-7(pbk) US$38 £32 An Introduction to the Culture and History of the Teochews in Singapore by Gia Lim Tan How Working Together Matters Adversity, Aspiration, Action This book is one of the first few books written in English on Chaozhou edited by David Chan (Singapore Management University, Singapore) culture and history. It compiles information from Chinese and English This book is about the art and science of finding sources including archive material, solutions to helping families in crisis, and newspapers, academic works and making a real and lasting positive difference in publications. It presents a panorama their lives. It is about helping people in need, view of the Teochews in Singapore. as well as lessons on adversity, aspiration and With carefully selected photos, action when multiple different stakeholders pictures and comprehensive accounts, this book takes the general work together in the helping process. The readers on a fascinating journey of the Teochew heritage. For those who book discusses the issues in an unprecedented real-life interim housing wish to continue learning more about Chaozhou culture and history, a project in Singapore that helped families in crisis over several years selected bibliography is provided at the end of the book. and critically reflects on the experiences and lessons learned from the helping process in this project. Readership: General readers.

Readership: General public, civil servants, NGOs, academics, school 164pp Sep 2018 teachers; researchers and students in social and behavioural sciences. 978-981-3239-35-7 US$45 £40

160pp Jan 2019 978-981-3278-40-0 US$58 £50 Fulfilling the Trust 50 Years of Shaping Muslim Religious Life in Singapore Over 25,000 copies sold. edited by Norshahril Saat

Tall Order Fulfilling the Trust: 50 Years of Shaping Muslim The Goh Chok Tong Story Volume 1 Religious Life in Singapore is the first book that by Shing Huei Peh (The Nutgraf, Singapore) comprehensively studies the development of Muis’ policies over the last 50 years since its “Engaging and thought-provoking insights founding in 1968. It offers an insight into the 32 drawn from the leadership of one of Asia’s most multi-faceted considerations and the overall eminent statesmen. Emeritus Senior Minister context of the development of such policies, providing a wide-ranging Goh Chok Tong sheds inspiring light on the and evaluative analyses of their evolution in the various work domains. values, vision and valour of the new Singapore This book is a valuable contribution to the community’s cultural and dream — both inclusive and sustainable — experiential heritage, providing an indispensable resource for anyone in our changing world.” or any institution wishing to pursue a constructive role for religious Ban Ki-moon communities to equally contribute towards the betterment of a thriving former United Nations Secretary-General plural society ensconced within a secular-based polity.

Readership: General readers. Readership: Professionals, policymakers and researchers.

344pp Oct 2018 400pp Oct 2018 978-981-3276-04-8 US$56 £50 978-981-3274-26-6 US$145 £130 978-981-3276-13-0(pbk) US$37 £35 978-981-3275-49-2(pbk) US$58 £50

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Unintended Consequences in Singapore’s Fiscal Strategies Singapore for Growth edited by David Chan (Singapore A Journey of Self-Reliance Management University, Singapore) by Kok Fatt Lee (Future-Moves Group, Singapore) This book explores various issues about unintended consequences in Singapore. The The book is structured to explain how the book provides an overview of issues involved various aspects of Singapore’s fiscal policies in thinking about unintended consequences inter-relate and work together as a functioning and examines unintended consequences in system, enabling the small city-state to prosper the context of Singapore’s goal to become and progress since its independence in 1965. a smart nation and compares the perspectives between public and Besides providing a documentation of the development of Singapore’s private sector organisations on dealing with uncertainty. It analyses the fiscal strategies over the years, the current and impending national challenges to be addressed by fiscal strategies are also discussed. The relationships linking unintended consequences to healthcare outcomes author also addresses the importance of culture to a nation’s success, and the management of race relations in Singapore and addresses and highlights the impact of fiscal policy in this regard. specific questions on unintended consequences in Singapore in terms of the nation’s history, immigration, education, meritocracy, civil service Readership: Students and academics interested in public policy and culture and mindsets, and relationships between people and government. Singapore’s development model, local and foreign agencies interested in Singapore’s fiscal policies, analysts and observers interested in Readership: General public, civil servants, NGOs, students and Singapore’s future. academics. 212pp Jan 2018 172pp Aug 2018 978-981-3228-00-9 US$68 £60 978-981-3231-73-3 US$68 £60

Bestseller Critical Issues in Asset Kiasunomics Building in Singapore’s Stories of Singaporean Economic Development Behaviours edited by S Vasoo & Bilveer Singh by Sumit Agarwal (NUS, Singapore), et al. (National University of Singapore, Singapore) “Everyone interested in the value of big This book reveals how Singapore’s governance data can benefit from this book. The authors grounded on the principle of asset building have been able to marry deep data analytics facilitates the country’s growth and develop- with empirical observations to come up with ment. Policies being discussed in this volume extremely interesting insights. In addition, the storytelling nature of the narrative makes it easy to follow and relate to. include multi-culturalism, accessible housing, For non-Singaporeans, this is a ready primer of many behaviours that social mobility for low-income families, water resource management, and drive our country!” national conscription. This unique piece of work not only gives readers Mr Piyush Gupta a documentary account of what has been undertaken to empower and Chief Executive Officer and Director assist citizens in the last 50 years or so, but also prompts them to reflect DBS Group on Singapore’s future trajectory.

Readership: Students, policy makers and the general public interested Readership: General readers. in socio-political and economic development issues, in particular to the 288pp Jan 2018 Singapore context. 978-981-3233-36-2 US$58 £51 228pp Aug 2018 978-981-3234-53-6(pbk) US$28 £25 978-981-3239-75-3 US$88 £75 Bestseller 50 Years of Singapore’s The Singapore Ethnic Mosaic Productivity Drive Many Cultures, One People by Kin Chung Woon & Ya Lee Loo edited by Mathews Mathew (Institute of Policy Studies, Singapore & OnePeople.sg) 2017 marks the 50th year of Singapore’s national productivity drive. This book provides Far from being a melting pot, multi-racial a comprehensive account of the phases, Singapore prides itself on the richness of milestones and activities of the productivity its ethnic communities and cultures. This 33 drive from its humble beginnings in 1967. The volume provides an updated account of the heterogeneity within each of the main coverage ranges from the assistance that communities — the Chinese, Malay, Indian, Eurasian and Others. Singapore received through the United Nations It also documents the ethnic cultures of these communities by Development Programme and the Japan – Singapore Productivity discussing their histories, celebrations, cultural symbols, life cycle Development Project, to the national campaigns and programmes to rituals, cultural icons and attempts to preserve culture. While this book build competencies in enterprises and the workforce. is about diversity, a closer examination of the peoples and cultures of Readership: Policy-makers, employees in different enterprises, Singapore demonstrates the many similarities communities share in academics and general public interested in Singapore’s productivity this Singaporean space. movement. Readership: Student and researchers of Singapore society and general 456pp Feb 2018 readers interested in Singapore and its ethnic culture. 978-981-3141-17-9 US$98 £86 504pp Jan 2018 978-981-3234-73-4 US$58 £51

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Bestseller The Singapore Blue Chips Tommy Koh The Rewards & Risks of Investing in Singapore’s Largest Corporates Serving Singapore and the World by Nandini Vijayaraghavan & Umesh Desai edited by Lay Hwee Yeo, Peggy Kek, (Thomson Reuters, Hong Kong) Gillian Koh & Li Lin Chang “The 22 companies featured in this informative This book aims to celebrate the many and insightful book are some of those that stand contributions of Professor Tommy Koh as out in the Singapore corporate scene. They are a Singaporean diplomat, public intellectual and social changemaker. It is an account relatively large, established businesses with of the ideas and ideals of an extraordinary experienced management and strong track Singaporean public servant who was not only born with the talent and records of growth and profitability. Their profiles and success stories, ability to traverse many areas of society, but one who, when given taken together, form a formidable tome for anyone with interest in the the opportunity, had the drive and ambition to make the most of it Singapore business scene. This is a book for businessmen as well as to create a better world for Singaporeans and the global community. investors: big and small; casual and professional. I hope you would This book reflects the spirit of Singapore’s pioneer generation whose enjoy and gain from it.” determination and tenacity turned the nation into the modern-day miracle Mano Sabnani that Singapore is today. CEO, Rafflesia Holdings Pte Ltd, Singapore

Readership: General readers. Readership: First time and professional investors, students of business studies, general public. 420pp Dec 2017 978-981-3222-37-3 US$88 £73 352pp Mar 2017 978-981-3222-38-0(pbk) US$36 £30 978-981-4759-73-1 US$68 £56 978-981-4759-21-2(pbk) US$38 £33 50 Years of ASEAN and Singapore Civil Society and the State in edited by Tommy Koh (Ambassador-at- Singapore Large, Singapore), Sharon Li-Lian Seah edited by Carol Soon & Gillian Koh & Li Lin Chang (Institute of Policy Studies, Singapore)

On the 8th of August 2017, ASEAN celebrated “This book offers a wide range of perspectives the 50th anniversary of its founding. ASEAN is on, and examples of, organisational initiatives of great importance to Singapore, the region in Singapore by local academics and policy and the world. This volume brings together activists. It reflects differences among 46 essays written by Singaporeans who have contributors over what civil society is and the played a part in the partnership between ASEAN and Singapore. The directions it might or should take. This renders reader will be able to glean an insight into the workings of ASEAN and it a valuable new resource for analysts of the city-state.” Singapore’s contributions to ASEAN through the lens of diplomats, Garry Rodan academics, civil society leaders and officials. Professor, Murdoch University, Australia

Readership: Academics, scholars, diplomats & civil society interested Readership: Policymakers, academics and researchers, practitioners. in ASEAN and Singapore. 340pp Mar 2017 444pp Oct 2017 978-1-78634-246-1 US$68 £56 978-981-3225-11-4 US$98 £86 978-981-3225-12-1(pbk) US$48 £42 NOTABLE TITLES The State and the Arts in Singapore Bestseller edited by Terence Chon Merchants, Bankers, Inequality in Singapore Governors edited by Faizal Bin Yahya British Enterprise in Singapore and Behavioural Economics and Policy Design edited by Malaya, 1786 – 1920 Donald Low by Peter J Drake Dynamic Governance by Boon Siong Neo & Geraldine Chen “This is in many ways a very useful volume Battle for Hearts and Minds 34 for anyone new to the history of the British edited by Tarn How Tan, et al. presence in the Malay peninsula, and especially those interested in its economic development under the The Little Red Dot: Reflections of Foreign Ambassadors on earlier phase of British colonial rule. The writing, on the whole, is Singapore Volume III reasonably engaging ... The book should definitely be on the reading edited by Tommy Koh & Li Lin Chang list of the reader new to Malaya and Southeast Asia, and should be part The Little Red Dot: Reflections by Singapore’s Diplomats Volume II of the reading of a more knowledgeable audience.” edited by Tommy Koh & Li Lin Chang Economic History Review The Little Red Dot: Reflections by Singapore’s Diplomats Volume I edited by Tommy Koh & Li Lin Chang Readership: Professionals, students, general public. The Leader, The Teacher & You 208pp Sep 2017 by Siong Guan Lim & Joanne H Lim 978-981-3222-41-0 US$88 £73 The United States-Singapore Free Trade Agreement edited by Tommy Koh & Li Lin Chang

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Lee Kuan Yew Through the Bestseller Eyes of Chinese Scholars World Scientific Series on Singapore’s 50 Years by Chen-Ning Yang (Tsinghua University, of Nation-Building China), Ying-Shih Yu (Princeton) & Singapore’s Economic Gungwu Wang (East Asian Institute, NUS, Development Singapore) Retrospection and Reflections Lee Kuan Yew through the Eyes of Chinese edited by Linda Y C Lim (University of Scholars is a compilation of essays by highly- Michigan, USA) respected Chinese scholars in which they Singapore’s Economic Development: evaluate the life, work and philosophy of Retrospection and Reflections provides Lee Kuan Yew, founding Prime Minister of Singapore. Presenting a a retrospective analysis of independent Singapore’s economic range of views from a uniquely Chinese/Asian perspective, this book development, from the perspective of different policy domains each provides valuable insights for those who wish to gain a fuller and deeper considered by different expert scholars in that particular field. By understanding of Lee Kuan Yew — the man, as well as Singapore — examining the evolution of past and current policies which combined his nation. to make Singapore’s development a success and exploring emerging developmental challenges, Singapore’s Economic Development: Readership: General readers. Retrospection and Reflections gives readers a better understanding of 216pp Feb 2017 Singapore’s economic trajectory and future. 978-981-3202-31-3 US$58 £48 Readership: General readers, researchers and academics. 978-981-3209-37-4(pbk) US$28 £23 332pp Feb 2016 978-981-4723-45-9 US$85 £71 World Scientific Series on Singapore’s 50 Years 978-981-4723-46-6(pbk) US$45 £37 of Nation-Building Singapore Eurasians Memories, Hopes and Dreams Bestseller edited by Myrna Braga-Blake George Yeo on Bonsai, Banyan (The Eurasian Association, Singapore), et al. and the Tao Singapore Eurasians: Memories, Hopes and edited by Asad-ul Iqbal Latif, Huay Leng Dreams offers insight into the Singapore Lee (Lianhe Wanbao, Singapore) Eurasian community, one of Singapore’s “This is a wonderful book by one of the minority communities. This book is the foremost statesmen and social thinkers of our definitive record of Eurasian history and time. Though the themes covered display a heritage in Singapore, and serves to educate the younger generation huge variety in this wide-ranging collection of of Eurasians about their roots, the community’s achievements and its essays and speeches by George Yeo, there collective hopes and dreams for the future, as well as provide a useful is a foundational interest in Asia’s vast possibilities that motivates resource for others to learn more about the Eurasian community. his illuminating and powerful reflections.” Amartya Sen Readership: General public. Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences 420pp Feb 2017 978-981-3109-58-2 US$68 £56 Readership: The general public, policy-makers and academics keen 978-981-3109-59-9(pbk) US$34 £28 on Asian politics and international relations. 812pp Jul 2015 978-981-4518-69-7 US$78 £65 The Merlion and Mt. Fuji 978-981-4520-50-8(pbk) US$34 £28 50 Years of Singapore – Japan Relations by Tai Wei Lim (UniSIM, Singapore & East Asian Institute, NUS, Singapore) NOTABLE TITLES Remembering S R Nathan Currently, as the most advanced economies edited by Mushahid Ali & Kumar Ramakrishna in Southeast and Northeast Asia respectively, My Journey in Politics Singapore and Japan will continue to be by Peng Kee Ho demonstrative case studies of economic Managing Diversity in Singapore development in the region. There are edited by Mathew Mathews & Wai Fong Chiang similarities too between these two countries: Dare to be Different 35 an aging population, changing geopolitical realities, mature economies, by Albert Hong and environmental challenges. The Merlion and Mt. Fuji is not just a historical account of the bilateral cooperation but also includes honest Winning with Honour by Siong Guan Lim & Joanne H Lim narratives on what it is like being a Singaporean student on exchange in Japan, an anime and manga fan outside of Japan, and some omotenashi Reflections: The Legacy of Lee Kuan Yew edited by Yang Razali Kassim & Mushahid Ali appreciation. Heart to Heart with Asian Leaders Readership: Although academic in research, the context of the volume edited by John Swee Kheng Ng & Alvin Jong Peng Foo would also interest general readers, who are comfortable with historical Tan Siak Kew facts and figures, and students taking Japanese or Oriental studies. by Fiona Tan 268pp Jan 2017 The Tommy Koh Reader 978-981-3145-69-6 US$48 £40 by Tommy Koh 978-981-3145-70-2(pbk) US$25 £21 Goh Keng Swee edited by Barry Desker & Chong Guan Kwa

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Understanding Singapore Singapore 2065 Politics Leading Insights on Economy and by Bilveer Singh (NUS, Singapore) Environment from 50 Singapore Icons and Beyond Understanding Singapore Politics is written to edited by Euston Quah (NTU, Singapore & address the dearth of a succinct overview on Economic Society of Singapore) Singapore politics. This introductory text looks at the factors that shape the island-republic’s “A stunning collection of perspectives across domestic politics, the key institutions and the spectrum, Singapore 2065 presents a issues in the city-state, electoral power as well compelling look into the future through a series as the political direction Singapore is likely of thought provoking insights. This volume to take in a post-Lee Kuan Yew era. The role of civil and civic society, also celebrates the country’s exceptional including pressures for democratisation, is also examined. In addition, success, retelling the invaluable stories and anecdotes that have paved various new political issues — the importance of race, income equality Singapore’s tremendous journey over the last 50 years. As Singapore and migration — and their implications are discussed. Finally, the linkage continues to chart into the next half century, Singapore 2065 leaves between Singapore’s domestic and foreign policy is analysed. This plenty to ponder and will remain a valuable repository of knowledge for foundational guide to Singapore politics is recommended for anyone many years to come.” who has an interest or a stake in the island republic. Bertil Andersson President, Nanyang Technological University Readership: Secondary and Junior College students, University students, researchers on Singapore politics, as well as professionals Readership: Educational institutions of higher levels, research institutions, such as diplomats and journalists who want to have an insight on various professional societies, government and ministries,foreign Singapore politics. governments; and general readers.

232pp May 2017 500pp Aug 2015 978-981-3209-22-0 US$75 £62 978-981-4663-36-6 US$84 £70 978-981-3209-23-7(pbk) US$45 £37 978-981-4663-37-3(pbk) US$38 £32

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✔ Title Page ✔ Title Page ✔ Title Page 2030 VISION FOR ASEAN - CHINA 22 CATALYST FOR CHANGE: CHINESE 26 CORPORATE GOVERNANCE SYSTEM OF 20 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP: BUSINESS IN ASIA JAPANESE MULTINATIONAL COMPANIES: PERSPECTIVES FROM THINK-TANKS A QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION CHALLENGES OF GOVERNANCE IN A 31 21ST-CENTURY MARITIME SILK ROAD 15 COMPLEX WORLD, THE CRITICAL DECADE, A: CHINA’S FOREIGN 11 INITIATIVE: AIMS AND OBJECTIVES, POLICY (2008-2018) IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES AND CHANGE OF CHINA’S RURAL COMMUNITY: 15 POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS A CASE STUDY OF ZHEJIANG’S CRITICAL ISSUES IN ASSET BUILDING IN 33 JIANSHANXIA VILLAGE SINGAPORE’S DEVELOPMENT 50 YEARS OF ASEAN AND SINGAPORE 34 CHINA AND EAST ASIAN ECONOMIC 17 DEALING WITH AN AMBIGUOUS WORLD 31 50 YEARS OF ENVIRONMENT: 36 INTEGRATION SINGAPORE’S JOURNEY TOWARDS DEVELOPMENT OF GUANGDONG, THE: 18 ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY CHINA HORIZON, THE: GLORY AND DREAM 26 CHINA’S ECONOMIC POWERHOUSE OF A CIVILIZATIONAL STATE 50 YEARS OF INDIAN COMMUNITY IN 36 DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES OF OPEN 8 SINGAPORE CHINA IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE 25 ECONOMIES: CASES FROM EMERGING EAST AND SOUTHEAST ASIA 50 YEARS OF MATERIALS SCIENCE IN 36 CHINA RECONNECTS: JOINING A DEEP- 11 SINGAPORE ROOTED PAST TO A NEW WORLD ORDER DIGITAL ENABLEMENT AND INNOVATION 19 IN CHINA: A CASEBOOK 50 YEARS OF SCIENCE IN SINGAPORE 36 CHINA THROUGH AMERICAN EYES: EARLY 13 DEPICTIONS OF THE CHINESE PEOPLE EAST ASIAN STUDIES IN THE 21 50 YEARS OF SINGAPORE AND THE 36 AND CULTURE IN THE US PRINT MEDIA PERSPECTIVE OF REGIONAL UNITED NATIONS INTEGRATION CHINA-ASEAN RELATIONS: COOPERATION 16 50 YEARS OF SINGAPORE-EUROPE 36 AND DEVELOPMENT (VOLUME 2) ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF KOREA 19 RELATIONS: CELEBRATING SINGAPORE’S CONNECTIONS WITH EUROPE CHINA’S 19TH PARTY CONGRESS: START 13 ECONOMIC DYNAMISM, OPENNESS, 30 OF A NEW ERA AND INCLUSION: HOW SINGAPORE CAN 50 YEARS OF SINGAPORE’S 33 MAKE THE TRANSITION FROM AN ERA OF CHINA’S BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE AND 12 PRODUCTIVITY DRIVE CATCH-UP GROWTH TO LIFE IN A MATURE BUILDING THE COMMUNITY OF COMMON ECONOMY 50 YEARS OF SOCIAL ISSUES IN 36 DESTINY SINGAPORE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF THE INTERNET 18 CHINA’S BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE AND 12 PLUS ERA: A CASE STUDY OF SHANGHAI 50 YEARS OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION IN 36 RMB INTERNATIONALIZATION SINGAPORE: HOW TO BUILD A WORLD EDUCATING FOR EMPATHY: SERVICE 30 CHINA’S BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE 14 CLASS TVET SYSTEM LEARNING IN PUBLIC POLICY EDUCATION AND THE WORLD’S LARGEST SMALL 50 YEARS OF THE CHINESE COMMUNITY 36 COMMODITY MARKET: YIWU BUSINESS ENSURING A SQUARE MEAL: WOMEN AND 9 IN SINGAPORE CIRCLE FOOD SECURITY IN SOUTHEAST ASIA 50 YEARS OF URBAN PLANNING IN 36 CHINA’S BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE: 12 ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS RESEARCH 16 SINGAPORE UNDERSTANDING THE DYNAMICS OF A AND CHINA’S GREEN DEVELOPMENT ABDULLAH BIN ABDUL KADIR MUNSYI: HIS 28 GREAT TRANSFORMATION STRATEGY VOYAGES AND LEGACIES (IN 2 VOLUMES) CHINA’S BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVES AND 26 FAREWELL TO CHINA’S GDP WORSHIP 23 ITS NEIGHBORING DIPLOMACY ACHIEVING ENERGY SECURITY IN ASIA: 5 FORGING A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE FOR 5 DIVERSIFICATION, INTEGRATION AND CHINA’S BELT AND ROAD: THE INITIATIVE 12 ASIAN CITIES: CASE STUDIES ON URBAN POLICY IMPLICATIONS AND ITS FINANCIAL FOCUS REGENERATION AGEING IN ASIA: CONTEMPORARY 4 CHINA’S CHANGE: THE GREATEST SHOW 13 FROM THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL TSUNAMI 5 TRENDS AND POLICY ISSUES ON EARTH TO THE PROPERTY BUBBLES IN ASIA: THE NEED FOR A NEW DISCIPLINE ON ANNUAL COMPETITIVENESS ANALYSIS 10 CHINA’S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 15 MACROECONOMIC MANAGEMENT AND IMPACT ESTIMATION OF EXCHANGE STRATEGIES: TRANSFORMATION AND RATES ON EXPORTS FROM SUB- INNOVATION FULFILLING THE TRUST: 50 YEARS OF 32 NATIONAL ECONOMIES OF INDIA SHAPING MUSLIM RELIGIOUS LIFE IN CHINA’S ECONOMIC MODERNISATION 19 SINGAPORE ANNUAL COMPETITIVENESS ANALYSIS 8 AND STRUCTURAL CHANGES: ESSAYS IN AND IMPACT ESTIMATION OF EXCHANGE HONOUR OF JOHN WONG GENDER INEQUALITY: SOCIOECONOMIC 4 RATES ON EXPORTS FROM SUB- ANALYSIS AND DEVELOPING COUNTRY CHINA’S ECONOMY IN TRANSFORMATION 24 NATIONAL ECONOMIES OF INDONESIA CASE STUDIES UNDER THE NEW NORMAL ANNUAL COMPETITIVENESS ANALYSIS 8 GENERAL HISTORY OF THE CHINESE IN 29 CHINA’S EDUCATION REFORM: CURRENT 21 AND IMPACT ESTIMATION OF EXCHANGE SINGAPORE, A RATES ON TRADE IN VALUE-ADDED OF ISSUES AND NEW HORIZONS ASEAN ECONOMIES GEORGE YEO ON BONSAI, BANYAN AND 35 CHINA’S OMNIDIRECTIONAL PERIPHERAL 18 THE TAO ANTHROPOLOGY OF CHINA, THE: CHINA 25 DIPLOMACY AS ETHNOGRAPHIC AND THEORETICAL GLOBAL NEXUS, THE: POLITICAL 16 CHINA’S ONE BELT ONE ROAD INITIATIVE 26 CRITIQUE ECONOMIES, CONNECTIVITY, AND THE CHINA’S RISE IN MAINLAND ASEAN: NEW 20 SOCIAL SCIENCES ART OF MODERN ORIENTAL 24 DYNAMICS AND CHANGING LANDSCAPE MANAGEMENT: APPLYING THE CHINESE, GREEN DEVELOPMENT OF ASIA-PACIFIC 5 JAPANESE AND KOREAN MANAGEMENT CHINA’S TOWNSHIP SYSTEM: 22 CITIES: BUILDING BETTER CITIES STYLES AT WORK GOVERNANCE AND REFORM TOWARDS 2030 ASIAN AGRIBUSINESS MANAGEMENT: 7 CHINESE FIRMS GOING GLOBAL: CAN 22 HANDBOOK OF TERRORISM IN THE 7 CASE STUDIES IN GROWTH, MARKETING, THEY SUCCEED? ASIA-PACIFIC AND UPGRADING STRATEGIES CHINESE HISTORY AND LITERATURE: 21 HEALTH CARE POLICY IN EAST ASIA: 17 BASIC PRINCIPLES OF CHINESE 19 NEW WAYS TO EXAMINE CHINA’S PAST A WORLD SCIENTIFIC REFERENCE PHILOSOPHY (VOLUMES 1 & 2) (IN 4 VOLUMES) CHINESE MIGRANTS WRITE HOME: 13 BASIC RESEARCH AND INDUSTRIAL 20 A DUAL-LANGUAGE ANTHOLOGY OF HISTORY OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES: 22 INNOVATION IN CHINA TWENTIETH-CENTURY FAMILY LETTERS PORTUGAL AND EAST ASIA V - VISUAL AND TEXTUAL REPRESENTATIONS IN 39 BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE IN THE 12 CHINESE SOCIETY IN THE XI JINPING ERA 17 GLOBAL CONTEXT, THE EXCHANGES BETWEEN EUROPE AND CHINESE URBANISM: URBAN FORM AND 14 EAST ASIA 16TH - 18TH CENTURIES BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE, THE: ASEAN 8 LIFE IN THE TANG-SONG DYNASTIES COUNTRIES’ PERSPECTIVES HISTORY OF MEDICINE IN CHINESE 14 CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE STATE IN 34 CULTURE, A (IN 2 VOLUMES) BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE: CHINESE 12 SINGAPORE VERSION OF “MARSHALL PLAN”? HOW TO BECOME A MODERNIZED 14 COLLECTED READINGS ON COMMUNITY 28 COUNTRY: CHINA MODERNIZATION BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE: 12 DEVELOPMENT IN SINGAPORE REPORT OUTLOOK (2001-2016) INTERREGIONAL COOPERATION BETWEEN ASIA AND EUROPE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ARENAS IN 27 HOW WORKING TOGETHER MATTERS: 32 SINGAPORE ADVERSITY, ASPIRATION, ACTION BUILDING INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACIES IN 9 ASEAN CONSUMPTION PATTERNS OF THE 22 IMPACT ESTIMATION OF EXCHANGE 15 MIDDLE CLASS IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA RATES ON EXPORTS AND ANNUAL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT, MERGER AND 25 UPDATE OF COMPETITIVENESS ANALYSIS CRISIS MANAGEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY SOUTH KOREAN 24 FOR 34 GREATER CHINA ECONOMIES FIRMS IN JAPAN: FEATURING CASE ECONOMY: CHALLENGES AND STUDIES FROM FORTUNE 500 PROSPECTS INCOME DISTRIBUTION AND CHINA’S 16 ECONOMIC “NEW NORMAL” COMPANIES COORDINATION OF BRICS DEVELOPMENT 5 CAN SINGAPORE FALL?: MAKING THE 31 STRATEGIES TOWARDS SHARED INDEPENDENCE ‘65: WAS SINGAPORE 27 FUTURE FOR SINGAPORE PROSPERITY, THE BOOTED OUT?

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✔ Title Page ✔ Title Page ✔ Title Page INDEPENDENT INNOVATION IN CHINA: 23 POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT IN 11 SIR STAMFORD RAFFLES AND SOME OF 29 THEORY AND CASES HONG KONG: A READER HIS FRIENDS AND CONTEMPORARIES: A MEMOIR OF THE FOUNDER OF INDUSTRIAL OVERCAPACITY AND 18 POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CHINA’S BELT 12 SINGAPORE DUPLICATE CONSTRUCTION IN CHINA: AND ROAD INITIATIVE, THE REASONS AND SOLUTIONS SOUND OF MEMORIES, THE: 28 POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE BRICS 4 RECORDINGS FROM THE ORAL HISTORY INSIGHTS ON SINGAPORE’S ECONOMY 30 COUNTRIES, THE (IN 3 VOLUMES) CENTRE, SINGAPORE AND SOCIETY FROM LEADING THINKERS: FROM THE INSTITUTE OF POLICY POLITICAL STABILITY IN A CHANGING 14 SOUTH CHINA SEA DISPUTES AND THE 21 STUDIES’ SINGAPORE PERSPECTIVES CHINA US-CHINA CONTEST, THE: INTERNATIONAL LAW AND GEOPOLITICS INSIGHTS ON SINGAPORE’S POLITICS 30 POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE IN INDIAN 10 AND GOVERNANCE FROM LEADING STATES: BIHAR, WEST BENGAL AND SOUTH CHINA SEA DISPUTES, THE: 13 THINKERS: FROM THE INSTITUTE TRIPURA HISTORICAL, GEOPOLITICAL AND LEGAL OF POLICY STUDIES’ SINGAPORE STUDIES POLITICS, CULTURE AND IDENTITIES IN 26 PERSPECTIVES EAST ASIA: INTEGRATION AND DIVISION SOUTHEAST ASIA AND CHINA: A CONTEST 25 INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE AND RURAL 20 IN MUTUAL SOCIALIZATION POWER BROKING IN THE SHADE: PARTY 9 INDUSTRIALIZATION IN CHINA: THE FINANCES AND MONEY POLITICS IN SPECIAL NEEDS EDUCATION: TRENDS 27 PUTTING-OUT SYSTEM IN HANDICRAFT AND ISSUES IN SINGAPORE INDUSTRY IN LATE QING AND EARLY SOUTHEAST ASIA REPUBLIC PERIOD POWER OF IDEAS, THE: THE RISING 25 SRI LANKA AT CROSSROADS: 10 INFLUENCE OF THINKERS AND THINK GEOPOLITICAL CHALLENGES AND INTERNATIONALIZATION OF 16 NATIONAL INTERESTS TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION FOR TANKS IN CHINA STATE CAPITALISM IN EURASIA 7 CHINESE ENTERPRISES, THE PUBLIC TRUST IN SINGAPORE 30 STUDIES ON CONTEMPORARY CHINA 21 INTERPRETING CHINA’S LEGAL SYSTEM 23 RAY OF HOPE, A: INSPIRING STORIES OF 27 INTERPRETING ZHEJIANG’S 15 50 SINGAPORE SPORTS ICONS STUDY ON CHINESE TRADITIONAL 20 DEVELOPMENT: CULTURAL AND SOCIAL THEORY OF ARTISTIC STYLE REFORM AND DEVELOPMENT IN CHINA: 19 PERSPECTIVES AFTER 40 YEARS STUDYING HONG KONG: 20 YEARS OF 21 INTRODUCTION TO THE CULTURE 32 POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH ON EFFICIENCY AND 18 AND HISTORY OF THE TEOCHEWS IN DEVELOPMENTS SINGAPORE, AN FAIRNESS OF RESOURCES ALLOCATION BY CHINA’S GOVERNMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY MANAGEMENT AND 4 IS THE PEOPLE’S ACTION PARTY HERE 28 ADMINISTRATION BUSINESS STRATEGY IN ASIA TO STAY?: ANALYSING THE RESILIENCE RESURGENCE OF IDEOLOGICAL 5 SUSTAINABLE ENERGY TRANSITION 10 OF THE ONE-PARTY DOMINANT STATE IN IN SOUTH ASIA: CHALLENGES AND DIFFERENCES AND ITS SOCIAL POLITICAL SINGAPORE OPPORTUNITIES CONSEQUENCES, THE: CASE STUDIES OF IS THIS THE ASIAN CENTURY? 7 36 INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRIES SUZHOU INDUSTRIAL PARK: 17 ACHIEVEMENTS, CHALLENGES AND KIASUNOMICS©: STORIES OF 33 RISING FROM THE ASHES: UN 8 SINGAPOREAN ECONOMIC BEHAVIOURS PROSPECTS PEACEBUILDING IN TIMOR-LESTE LEE KUAN YEW THROUGH THE EYES OF 35 TALL ORDER: THE GOH CHOK TONG 32 RIVALRY AND COOPERATION IN THE ASIA- 4 CHINESE SCHOLARS STORY VOLUME 1 PACIFIC: THE DYNAMICS OF A REGION IN MAJULAH!: 50 YEARS OF MALAY/MUSLIM 36 TRANSITION (IN 2 VOLUMES) TEACHER’S RACE COURSE, A: 29 COMMUNITY IN SINGAPORE RUMINATIONS AND REFLECTIONS ROCKS, RADIO AND RADAR: THE 29 MEMOIRS OF A FLYING TIGER: THE STORY 27 EXTRAORDINARY SCIENTIFIC, SOCIAL TECHNICAL HISTORY OF CHINA’S GRAND 16 CANAL, THE OF A WWII VETERAN AND SIA PIONEER AND MILITARY LIFE OF ELIZABETH PILOT ALEXANDER TENG GUIDE TO THE CHINESE 28 ORCHESTRA, THE MERCHANTS, BANKERS, GOVERNORS: 34 RURAL REFORM AND DEVELOPMENT: 15 BRITISH ENTERPRISE IN SINGAPORE AND A CASE STUDY OF CHINA’S ZHEJIANG THEORY AND POLICIES OF MUTUAL 17 MALAYA, 1786-1920 PROVINCE BENEFIT AND WIN-WIN STRATEGY, MERLION AND MT. FUJI, THE: 50 YEARS OF 35 THE: RESEARCH ON SUSTAINABLE SEEKING A BETTER URBAN FUTURE 31 SINGAPORE-JAPAN RELATIONS DEVELOPMENT OF CHINA’S OPEN SERVING SINGAPORE: MY JOURNEY 27 ECONOMY MINDANAO: THE LONG JOURNEY TO 9 PEACE AND PROSPERITY SHADOWS ACROSS THE GOLDEN 8 TIMOR-LESTE/AUSTRALIA CONCILIATION, 9 LAND: MYANMAR’S OPENING, FOREIGN THE: A VICTORY FOR UNCLOS AND MODI AND THE WORLD: (RE) 10 PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES CONSTRUCTING INDIAN FOREIGN POLICY INFLUENCE AND INVESTMENT TOKKATSU: THE JAPANESE EDUCATIONAL 18 SILK ROAD: THE STUDY OF DRAMA 12 MORALIZATION OF CHINA 23 MODEL OF HOLISTIC EDUCATION CULTURE MUCH MORE THAN ACADEMIC ABILITIES 29 TOMMY KOH: SERVING SINGAPORE AND 34 SINGAPORE 2065: LEADING INSIGHTS ON 37 THE WORLD MULTILATERAL APPROACH IN CHINA’S 23 ECONOMY AND ENVIRONMENT FROM 50 FOREIGN POLICY SINGAPORE ICONS AND BEYOND TRADE AND INVESTMENT IN SOUTH ASIA: 10 AN ANALYSIS MY GP, MY MENTAL HEALTHCARE 28 SINGAPORE AND HONG KONG: 18 PROVIDER: A TERTIARY-PRIMARY CARE COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON THE TRANSFORMATION OF CHINA’S 17 COLLABORATION FOR COMMUNITY 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF HONG KONG’S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, THE: MENTAL HEALTHCARE PERSPECTIVES OF SINO-US ECONOMISTS HANDOVER TO CHINA MY MATERNAL ROOTS: A STORY OF 30 UNDERSTANDING SINGAPORE POLITICS 37 SINGAPORE BLUE CHIPS, THE: THE 34 FAMILY, FAITH AND FREEDOM REWARDS & RISKS OF INVESTING IN UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES IN 33 MYANMAR: REINTEGRATING INTO THE 9 SINGAPORE’S LARGEST CORPORATES SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY SINGAPORE ETHNIC MOSAIC, THE: MANY 33 UNRAVELLING MODERN CHINA 11 NATIONAL SERVICE IN SINGAPORE 32 40 CULTURES, ONE PEOPLE URBAN COMPOSITE DEVELOPMENT 20 NEW SILK ROAD: CHINA MEETS EUROPE 24 SINGAPORE EURASIANS: MEMORIES, 35 INDEX FOR 17 SHANDONG CITIES: IN THE BALTIC SEA REGION, THE - HOPES AND DREAMS RANKING AND SIMULATION ANALYSIS A BUSINESS PERSPECTIVE BASED ON CHINA’S FIVE DEVELOPMENT SINGAPORE PERSPECTIVES 2018: 32 CONCEPTS NEW WAVES IN CHINA’S PHILOSOPHICAL 21 TOGETHER STUDIES US VS CHINA: FROM TRADE WAR TO 11 SINGAPORE PERSPECTIVES: SINGAPORE. 29 RECIPROCAL DEAL NORTH KOREAN NUCLEAR WEAPON 13 WORLD AND REUNIFICATION OF THE KOREAN WHEN TREES FALL, MONKEYS SCATTER: 24 PENINSULA SINGAPORE-CHINA RELATIONS: 50 YEARS 36 RETHINKING DEMOCRACY IN CHINA OCEAN IN A DROP, THE - SINGAPORE: 31 SINGAPORE’S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: 35 WHOSE COMFORT?: BODY, SEXUALITY 11 THE NEXT FIFTY YEARS RETROSPECTION AND REFLECTIONS AND IDENTITY OF KOREAN ‘COMFORT WOMEN’ AND JAPANESE SOLDIERS OUR LIVES TO LIVE: PUTTING A WOMAN’S 36 SINGAPORE’S FISCAL STRATEGIES FOR 33 DURING WWII FACE TO CHANGE IN SINGAPORE GROWTH: A JOURNEY OF SELF-RELIANCE WORLD SCIENTIFIC REFERENCE ON 7 PERSPECTIVES ON THE SECURITY OF 36 SINGAPORE’S HEALTH CARE SYSTEM: 36 ASIA AND THE WORLD ECONOMY SINGAPORE: THE FIRST 50 YEARS WHAT 50 YEARS HAVE ACHIEVED (IN 3 VOLUMES) PISA AND PIRLS: THE EFFECTS OF 5 SINGAPORE’S REAL ESTATE: 50 YEARS OF 36 WORLD SCIENTIFIC REFERENCE ON ASIA- 6 CULTURE AND SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT TRANSFORMATION PACIFIC TRADE POLICIES (IN 2 VOLUMES)

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