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Contents Foreword vii by Chua Beng Huat Acknowledgements xi Introduction 1 Chapter 1 The Asian Modern 15 Part 1 Deterritorialisation 31 Chapter 2 The ‘Modern’ Construction of Postcolonial Singapore 33 Chapter 3 Economic Development and the National Narrative 53 Chapter 4 The Homogenised Urban Environment and Locality 77 Part 2 Reterritorialisation 99 Chapter 5 The State, Ethnic Identity and Capitalism 101 Chapter 6 Staging Cultural Fragments, the Singaporean Eunuch 121 and the Asian Lear Epilogue Disciplinary Modernisation, the Asian Economic Crisis 143 and Re-Invention Notes 161 Selected Bibliography 197 Index 207 ...