Reviews Behind Barbed Wire: Chinese New Villages During the Malayan Emergency, 1948-1960 25 Feb 2021 This book’s main contribution to the wide variety of existing scholarship on the Malayan Emergency is that it centres the voices who were affected most but featured least in previous…
Reviews Amazons of the Huk Rebellion: Gender, Sex and Revolution in the Philippines 28 Jan 2021 This book by Vina Lanzona contributes to the history of revolutionary Cold War politics in Asia by highlighting the role of female revolutionaries. Focusing specifically on the Huk Rebellion in…
Reviews Yogi’s Verdict: They Were Her Property 22 Sep 20205 Jan 2021 This book by historian Stephanie Jones-Rogers makes a case that white women were not just passive participants in slavery but were active and prominent “co-conspirators”. By studying the voices of…
Reviews Yogi’s Circuit Breaker Reviews 14 Jun 202014 Jun 2020 During the Circuit Breaker lockdown period in Singapore that lasted from April 7 to June 1, I spent the time reading several books and watching shows on my to-do list.…
Reviews Yogi’s Verdict: Fauda Season 1 9 Jun 20209 Jun 2020 The Israel-Palestine conflict is often characterised by periods of intense violence with a tense peace squeezed in between. Occasionally, a single incident of terror or military operation captures global attention…
Reviews Yogi’s Verdict: Mossad Exodus 26 May 2020 Welcome to the beautiful Arous Village on the sun-kissed shore of Sudan's Red Sea coast. Enjoy diving in pristine waters guided by the best professionals and enjoy the fresh and…
Reviews Yogi’s Verdict: It Never Rains on National Day 21 May 2020 The National Day Parade is an occasion where the state holds a large birthday bash, smothers citizens in feel-good patriotism and binds them tightly to its definition of national identity.…
Reviews Yogi’s Verdict: Truck de India! A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Hindustan 9 May 2020 An instantly iconic symbol of India is the teeming chaos that permeates every facet of life in this nation of over a billion souls. But few outsiders pause to think…
Reviews Yogi’s Verdict: Circus of Books 9 May 2020 A conservative heterosexual Jewish couple wouldn't be out of place in a synagogue. But it certainly raises more than a few eyebrows when they are the owners of Los Angeles'…
Reviews Yogi’s Verdict: State of Emergency 30 Apr 2020 The twin anniversaries of SG50 and the Singapore Bicentennial have stoked intense interest in Singapore's history. Well-worn narratives have been questioned, dissidents have published books telling their side of the…
