Lee Kuan Yew: An Overview

Biographical Materials

• Brief Biography (needed)
• Chronology: To Singaporean Independence
• Japanese Brutality: Lee Kuan Yews's First-Hand Experience of the Conquerors
• Living Conditions in Singapore of the 1960s: Lee Kuan Yew's Encounters with Slum Life

The End of the British Empire, Singapore's Independence, and the Problems of the New Nation

• Lee Kuan Yew on the Inevitable End of The British Empire
• The Flight of Colonial Administrators at the Japanese Invasion: Lee Kuan Yew on the Beginning of the End of the British Empire
• Lessons from African Decolonization: Lee Kuan Yew's Visits in the 1960s and 1970s
• Malaysia Expels Singapore! Lee Kuan Yew on His Country's Independence

Statements of Lee Kuan Yew's Political Positions, Policies, and Theories

• The Asian Way Forward
• The Opposition of Civil Liberties and Stability, Security, and Economic Progress
• Lee Kuan Yew's Opposition to Trial by Jury
• Political Lessons from the Japanese Occupation of Singapore
• Lee Kuan Yew on the Japanese Army and the Atomic Bomb
• Malay vs. Chinese Culture
• Strong Leadership and the Catherine Lim Case
• Lee Kuan Yew on Jeyaretnam
• "The Fairness of the System": Lee Kuan Yew's Encounter with Britain's National Health Service
• Philip Holden on Postcolonial Autobiographies

Selected Bibliography

• Han Fook Kwang, Warren Fernandez, Sumiko Tan. Lee Kuan Yew: The Man and His Ideas. Singapore: Times, 1998.
• Lee Kuan Yew. The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew. Singapore: Times, 1998.