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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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'…
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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…

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