A Convincing Case for Farquhar

By Ooi Kee Beng

July 2017 BOOK REVIEW
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Book review: William Farquhar and Singapore: Stepping out of Raffles’ Shadow by Nadia H. Wright. Entrepot Publishing, 2017.The immediate success of Singapore led to a grim court battle to decide who her actual founder was. That clash continues in this new and superbly researched book.The present always becomes the past. And the past in turn is something that slowly settles, obscuring as often as it educates; and in time it becomes hardened truth, just like a sun-cured cement pavement.Like a...

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Ooi Kee Beng

is the Executive Director of Penang Institute. His recent books include The Eurasian Core and its Edges: Dialogues with Wang Gungwu on the History of the World (ISEAS 2016). Homepage: wikibeng.com

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