Return of the “Asian values” debateCULTURAL POLITICS AND ASIAN VALUES: The tepid warby Michael D. BarrLondon: RoutledgeCurzon / Melbourne: Palgrave MacmillanPaperback RRP: $49.95In 1977, then Prime Minister of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, began to use the term “Asian values” to explain Singapore’s emergence from being a poor nation with no natural resources in the 1950s into a powerhouse of East Asia.The people of Singapore, he said, “were an Asian-Oriental-type society, hard working, thrifty and di…
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