If I shall learn for the study, there're always something else "more important" to do. This week I’m reading From Third World To First written by Lee Kuan Yew, the first Prime Minister of Singapore, who changed Singapore thoroughly within 40 years.
My boyfriend bought the book in 2005 before our trip to Singapore. But afterwards the thick volume averted him from reading it. He had less time. Last week I picked it up again from the bookshelf. After reading its foreword and the first chapter I decided to continue. It is too interesting to drop out.
As the chapters are not ordered chronological, I chose the parts related to China, which interested me most, to start with. Surpris- ingly, unlike most of foreigners Lee has an objective view on China and the CCP.
Between the lines I sense his openness, astuteness and other qualities too numerous to articulate. Singapore simply flourished under his strategic leadership. How capable!
to be continued
My boyfriend bought the book in 2005 before our trip to Singapore. But afterwards the thick volume averted him from reading it. He had less time. Last week I picked it up again from the bookshelf. After reading its foreword and the first chapter I decided to continue. It is too interesting to drop out.
As the chapters are not ordered chronological, I chose the parts related to China, which interested me most, to start with. Surpris- ingly, unlike most of foreigners Lee has an objective view on China and the CCP.
Between the lines I sense his openness, astuteness and other qualities too numerous to articulate. Singapore simply flourished under his strategic leadership. How capable!
to be continued
2 comments:
So much for the repression of press freedom, political criticism and other highly valued civil rights by the West. But then, it's not the West but the East...
I agree that whn I listened to his statements, this guy has a vision. But does his constituenties shares the same vision ?
Singapore, the new ideal city much like Plato thought it millenia ago ?
I haven't yet enough time to finish the book. However what I know is, I like this book, and the one who wrote it.
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