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Record Nr.

UNINA9910466869303321

Autore

Asad Latif

Titolo

The life and times of Gerald de Cruz : a Singaporean of many worlds / / Asad-ul Iqbal Latif

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

981-4620-69-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 223 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Life and times of Gerald de Cruz

Disciplina

959.57

Soggetti

Communists - Singapore

Nationalists - Singapore

Electronic books.

Singapore Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Family Tree: Gerald Evelyn de Cruz -- 1. Don de Cruz de la Singapura -- 2. Childhood and Youth -- 3. The Japanese Occupation -- 4. The Communist Years -- 5. Going Abroad -- 6. The English Years -- 7. Return to Singapore -- 8. The Political Thinker -- 9. Friend of Labour -- 10. The Columnist -- 11. The Family Man -- APPENDIX -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sommario/riassunto

Gerald de Cruz's life overlapped many of the spheres of Singapore's history after World War II. As a Eurasian, a nationalist, a communist and then a democratic socialist, as a journalist and a writer, he represents the insurgent energies of a truculent time when a nascent nation was seeking the basis of statehood. His commitment to progressive ideas and movements reveals a man of integrity in search of himself in a better world. This book seeks to portray his place in time, particularly for younger Singaporeans who did not live in an era that has inaugurated the history of independent Singapore.