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Chapter 1:Interpreting the Cold War and the New Cold War in Asia -- Chapter 2: Curating Memory: Cold-War Narratives in Museums and Memorials in Taiwan, Vietnam, South Korea, And Cambodia -- Chapter 3: Ecology as a Cold-War Scale: Lau Kek Huat's Absent Without Leave and Ha Jin's War Trash -- Chapter 4: Where is My Homeland? Mainland Chinese Refugees and Hong Kong Tenement Films during the Cold-War Era -- Chapter 5: Grand Strategies and Everyday Struggles under the New Cold War and COVID-19: A Sociological Political Economy -- Chapter 6: The Cold-War Structure of Feeling: Revisiting the Discourse of "Dalumei" (Mainland Little Sister) in Taiwan -- Chapter 7: China's Health Diplomacy in the "New-Cold-War" Era: Contrasting the Battle of Narratives in Europe and the Middle East and North Africa -- Chapter 8: Hungary and the New-Cold-War Narrative on China -- Chapter 9: Haunted History: Exorcizing the Cold War.

1 Interpreting the Cold War and the New Cold War in Asia -- Cold-War Histories -- Cold-War Conflicts in Asia -- The Korean War -- The Vietnam War -- The Chinese Civil War -- The Malayan Emergency -- China in the Cold War and the New Cold War -- Cold-War Ideological Struggle -- Cold-War Narratives -- Museums and Monuments -- Films and Television Serials -- Novels and Non-Fiction Books -- News -- Cold-War Lived Experience -- References -- 2 Curating Memory: Cold-War Narratives in Museums and Memorials in Taiwan, Vietnam, South Korea, and Cambodia -- Kinmen, Taiwan: The Island as an Open-Air Museum (December 2015) -- Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: Amusement Grounds and Propaganda (January 2016) -- Seoul, South Korea: A Monument to Gratitude? (April 2016) -- Siem Reap and Phnom Penh, Cambodia: Narrating Victimhood, Complicity, and Guilt (July-August 2016) -- New York, United States of America (Winter 2019-Summer 2022) -- References -- 3 Ecology as a Cold-War Scale: Lau Kek Huat's Absent Without Leave and Ha Jin's War Trash -- Bodies and the Jungle in Absent Without Leave -- Bodies and Territoriality in War Trash -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 Where Is My Homeland? Mainland Chinese Refugees and Hong Kong Tenement Films During the Cold-War Era -- British Hong Kong, Mainland Chinese Refugees, and the Battle for Hearts and Minds -- Pro-communist "Patriotic" Cinema -- Home, Sweet Home (1950) -- The Show Must Go On (1952) -- The Dividing Wall (1952) -- U.S.-Backed Pro-nationalist "Free" Cinema -- Halfway Down (1955) -- The Mandarin's Bowls (1956) -- Coda -- References -- 5 Grand Strategies and Everyday Struggles Under the New Cold War and COVID-19: A Sociological Political Economy -- Geopolitics, COVID-19, and the New Cold War.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Editor and Contributors -- About the Editor -- List of Contributors -- List of Tables -- 1 Neoliberal Globalization, Authoritarian Populism, and Moral Panics -- Pandemic in Singapore: Year One -- Becoming a Neoliberal Global City -- Authoritarian-Populist Reactions -- Moral Panic -- Emerging from the Pandemic, Resilient? -- References -- 2 Neoliberal Singapore: Nation-State and Global City -- Survival and the Siege Mentality -- The Global City -- Authoritarian Neoliberalism -- Pragmatism, Elitism, and Paternalism -- The Persistent Centrality of the State -- A Corporate Style of State Management -- Market Morality -- The Singapore Model Abroad -- In a Time of Crisis, a Victim of Its Own (Neoliberal) Success? -- Course Correction: Towards a More Inclusive City-State? -- References -- 3 Public Health Legacies: Tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, and SARS in Singapore -- A Neoliberal Public Health System -- Moral Panics, Stigmatization, and Threat Perception -- Sars, a Wake-Up Call -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 Tackling Covid-19, the Singapore Way -- The Singapore Success Story and Its Hidden Failures -- From Vulnerability to Preparedness -- 2 January to 6 February 2020: Early Response -- 7 February to 14 March 2020: Reinforcing Measures -- 15 March to 6 April 2020: Managing the Panic -- Circuit Breaker and the Transition to a New Normal -- A Covid-19 General Election: A Mandate for Action and Leadership Succession -- References -- 5 The Contradictions and Challenges of Singapore's Immigration Policy -- Foreign Talent -- Migrant Workers -- Cosmopolitan Singapore -- The PAP Government's Pragmatism -- The Great Recession of 2007-2009 -- The General Elections of 2011 -- The Population White Paper and Little India Riot of 2013 -- The Impact of the Pandemic on Foreigners in Singapore -- References.

Chapter One: Neoliberal Globalization, Authoritarian Populism -- Chapter Two: Neoliberal Singapore: Nation-State and Global City -- Chapter Three: Public Health Legacies: Tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, and Sars in Singapore -- Chapter Four: Tackling Covid-19, The Singapore Way -- Chapter Five: The Contradictions and Challenges of Singapore's Immigration Policy -- Chapter Six: Migrant Worker Dormitories: Virus in A Neoliberal Politics Of Space.

Contemporary Singapore is simultaneously a small postcolonial multicultural nation state and a cosmopolitan global city. To manage fundamental contradictions, the state takes the lead in authoring the national narrative. This is partly an internal process of nation building, but it is also achieved through more commercially motivated and outward facing efforts at nation and city branding. Both sets of processes contribute to Singapore's capacity to influence foreign affairs, if only for national self-preservation. For a small state with resource limitations, this is mainly through the exercise of smart power, or the ability to strategically combine soft and hard power resources

1. Singapore's dominant party system -- 2. Harnessing talent for a macho-meritocratic elite -- 3. Pragmatism and the neoliberal state -- 4. The patriarchal state's feminization of civil society -- 5. Gay activism, religious conservatism, and the policing of neoliberal crises -- 6. Moral panic and the migrant worker folk devil -- 7. Inventing and reinventing the public -- 8. The Singapore Story : censorship and nostalgia in the creative city -- 9. Imagining futures after Lee Kuan Yew.

"Provides a detailed analysis of how governance in Singapore has evolved since independence to become what it is today, and what its prospects might be in a post-Lee Kuan Yew future. Firstly, it discusses the question of political leadership, electoral dominance and legislative monopoly in Singapore's one-party dominant system and the system's durability. Secondly, it tracks developments in Singapore's public administration, critically analysing the formation and transformation of meritocracy and pragmatism, two key components of the state ideology. Thirdly, it discusses developments within civil society, focusing in particular on issues related to patriarchy and feminism, hetero-normativity and gay activism, immigration and migrant worker exploitation, and the contest over history and national narratives in academia, the media and the arts. Fourthly, it discusses the PAP government's efforts to connect with the public, including its national public engagement exercises that can be interpreted as a subtler approach to social and political control. In increasingly complex conditions, the state struggles to maintain its hegemony while securing a pre-eminent position in the global economic order. Tan demonstrates how trends in these four areas converge in ways that signal plausible futures for a post-LKY Singapore"--

"Provides a detailed analysis of how governance in Singapore has evolved since independence to become what it is today, and what its prospects might be in a post-Lee Kuan Yew future. Firstly, it discusses the question of political leadership, electoral dominance and legislative monopoly in Singapore's one-party dominant system and the system's durability. Secondly, it tracks developments in Singapore's public administration, critically analysing the formation and transformation of meritocracy and pragmatism, two key components of the state ideology. Thirdly, it discusses developments within civil society, focusing in particular on issues related to patriarchy and feminism, hetero-normativity and gay activism, immigration and migrant worker exploitation, and the contest over history and national narratives in academia, the media and the arts. Fourthly, it discusses the PAP government's efforts to connect with the public, including its national public engagement exercises that can be interpreted as a subtler approach to social and political control. In increasingly complex conditions, the state struggles to maintain its hegemony while securing a pre-eminent position in the global economic order. Tan demonstrates how trends in these four areas converge in ways that signal plausible futures for a post-LKY Singapore"--

In 2015, Singaporeans voted in parliamentary elections. The incumbent People's Action Party won a landslide victory, in contrast with its performance in the 2011 elections, which had been the worst since Singapore gained independence. The party successfully reinvented itself as a more left-leaning and responsive party in government. Its public image improved by its association with Lee Kuan Yew, who passed away in this jubilee year.

In the "new normal" following the 2011 general election, Singapore seems poised for further development toward liberal democracy. However, the ruling People's Action Party is attempting to reinvent itself and regain its hegemonic position, which requires finding credible solutions for very challenging problems to do with policy, communication, and public image.