A review of To Catch a Traitor in Lee Kuan Yew’s Prison, by Francis T. Seow.
About the Author
Christopher Lingle is an economist who recently resigned his position as a senior fellow in European studies at the National University of Singapore, where he had begun teaching in September 1993.
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