In this entertaining and wide-ranging account, drawn from research undertaken in collaboration with the National Museum of Singapore, Mark Ravinder Frost and Yu-Mei Balasingamchow present Singapore’s mercurial life-story as experienced by the people who participated in it.
Singapore: A Biography brings together a Ming-dynasty travelogue, 19th-centry memoirs and correspondence, modern oral histories and rven radio and television broadcast to reconnect a contemporary audience with the Singapore story.