Lion City av Jeevan Vasagar

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<p><b><i>Lion City</i> tells the extraordinary story of Singapore - the world''s most successful city state.</b><br><br> In 1965, Singapore''s GDP per capita was on a par with Jordan. Now it has outstripped Japan. After the Second World War and a sudden rupture with newly formed Malaysia, Singapore found itself independent - and facing a crisis. It took the bloody-minded determination and vision of Lee Kuan Yew, its founding premier, to take a small island of diverse ethnic groups with a fragile economy and hostile neighbours and meld it into Asia''s first globalised city.<br><br> Jeevan Vasagar, former Singapore correspondent for the<i> Financial Times</i>, masterfully takes us through the intricate history, present and future of this unique diamond-shaped island one degree north of the equator, where new and old have remained connected. <i>Lion City</i> is a personal, insightful and essential guide to the city, and how its remarkable rise is shaping East Asia and the rest of the worl