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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Yang, Chen Ning, 1922 author. | Yu, Yingshi, author. | Wang, Gungwu, author.
Title: Lee Kuan Yew through the eyes of Chinese scholars / Chen-Ning Yang,
Ying-Shih Yu, Gungwu Wang and others.
Other titles: Xue zhe tan Li Guangyao. English
Description: New Jersey : World Scientific, [2017]
Identifiers: LCCN 2016048666 | ISBN 9789813202313 (hardcover) |
ISBN 9789813209374 (softcover)
Subjects: LCSH: Lee, Kuan Yew, 1923-2015. | Singapore--History. |
Singapore--Politics and government.
Classification: LCC DS610.73.L45 Y36513 2017 | DDC 959.57/051092 [B] --dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016048666
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This work is a translation of
Singapore: Global Publishing, 2015
ISBN 978-981-4704-06-9
Translator and editor: Sharon Khoo
Printed in Singapore
Contents
Cai Dingjian
Chua Chee Lay
Chen Kang
Du Ping
He Aiguo
Lam Hang Chi
Liu Hong and Zhang Huimei
Lawrence J. Lau
L Yuanli
Wang Gungwu
Su Guaning
Yu Ying-Shih
Zhang Jun
Zheng Yongnian
Chew Cheng Hai
Preface to the English edition
By Phua Kok Khoo
Since Singapores Minister Mentor and founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yews passing in March 2015, there have been a vast number of books published about him. So why publish another one? The distinctive feature of this compilation is the evaluation of Lee Kuan Yews life, work and philosophy through the eyes of Chinese scholars. All the contributors are ethnic Chinese and bring to the subject a distinctly Asian perspective even though several of them have made their homes outside Asia. The contributors come from a variety of academic backgrounds, including a Nobel laureate in physics, Chen-Ning Yang, as well as historians, political scientists, economists and Confucian scholars. They include Singaporeans such as Wang Gungwu and Chew Cheng Hai, and also scholars from China, US and Hong Kong such as Yongnian Zheng, Ying-Shih Yu, Lawrence Lau and Hang-Chi Lam. Together, they present a rich and multifaceted view of Lee Kuan Yew. There is a wide variety of style and length in the contributions; some contributions are brief and focused; others are more lengthy and eloquent. It is hoped that this book will give the reader a fuller and deeper understanding of Lee Kuan Yew the man, as well as Singapore his nation.
The World Scientific Publishing Group has published other books about Lee Kuan Yew:
Keeping My Mandarin Alive: Lee Kuan YewsLanguage Learning Experience (2005, English and Chinese editions) and
Reflections: the Legacy of Lee Kuan Yew (2015). This compilation was originally published in Chinese
Global Publishing, 2015) as a tribute to this great man. Translated into English, the material is now accessible to a wider audience.
January 2017
Contributors
Kok-Khoo Phua
Chairman of World Scientific Publishing Company; Founding Director of the Institute of Advanced Studies, Nanyang Technological University.
Chen-Ning Yang
Physicist; Nobel laureate (1957); Fellow of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the American Physical Society; Honorary Director of the Institute of Advanced Study, Tsinghua University, Beijing. Formerly a researcher at the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton University; Professor and Director of the Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stony Brook University.
Dingjian Cai
Chinese constitutional law scholar. Formerly Deputy Director of the Secretariat of the Standing Committee of the National Peoples Congress; Executive Director of the Center for Peoples Congress and Foreign Legislative Studies of Peking University Law School. He passed away in Beijing in 2010.
Chee-Lay Chua
Writer, poet and academic; author and editor of several books including Keeping My Mandarin Alive: Lee Kuan Yews Language Learning Experience; represented Singapore in the SingaporeFrance Writing Residency in Bordeaux, France in 2015. He was Lee Kuan Yews Mandarin tutor for several years.
Kang Chen
Economist; Professor and Director of the Master in Public Administration and Management Programme at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. Formerly head of the Economics Division, Nanyang Technological University; Wang Yanan Professor of Economics, Xiamen University.
Ping Du
Commentator for Phoenix Satellite TV, Hong Kong. Formerly a columnist for Lianhe Zaobao, Singapore.
Aiguo He
Historian; Researcher at the Center for Comparative Studies of Modernization, Fudan University and the Fudan Development Institute. His research focuses on the modernization of China; has written several books and articles.
Hang-Chi Lam
Founder of the Hong Kong Economic Journal; well-known columnist and commentator on politics and economics. He was awarded an OBE in 1991 and received an honorary degree from Lingnan University in 1999.
Hong Liu
Historian; Tan Kah Kee Endowed Professor and Chair, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University; Director of the Nanyang Centre for Public Administration. Formerly Inaugural Director of the Centre for Chinese Studies and Professor of East Asian Studies, University of Manchester.
Huimei Zhang
Historian; Post-doctoral fellow at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University.
Lawrence J. Lau
Economist; Ralph and Claire Landau Professor of Economics, Institute of Global Economics and Finance, Chinese University of Hong Kong. Formerly Kwoh-Ting Li Professor of Economic Development at Stanford University; Co-Director of the Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University; Director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research; Vice-Chancellor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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