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To Catch a Tartar: A Dissident in Lee Kuan Yew's Prison (Southeast Asia Studies Monograph Series) - Hardcover

Seow, Francis T.

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9780938692553: To Catch a Tartar: A Dissident in Lee Kuan Yew's Prison (Southeast Asia Studies Monograph Series)
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ISBN 10: 0938692550 ISBN 13: 9780938692553
Publisher: Yale Univ Southeast Asia Studies

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A semi-autobiographical account of Seow's experiences as a government official and his 72-day detention in 1988 for (quote) courting if not colluding (unquote) with U.S. diplomats to build an opposition in Singapore

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About the Author

Francis Seow was educated at Saint Joeph's Institution in Singapore and at the Honorable Society of the Middle Temple, London. He joined the Singapore Legal Service in 1956, serving as deputy public prosecutor until 1972, when he entered private law practice. Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew approved his appointment as senior counsel to a Commission of Inquiry which "successfully exposed communist tactics" in the Secondary IV examination boycott by Chinese students. Seow was subsequently appointed Solicitor General of Singapore. Seow dates the beginnings of political friction between himself and Lee Kuan Yew's government from 1986 when Seow was elected president of the Law Society. In 1989, Seow was appointed the first Orville Schell Fellow, Yale Law School, and in 1990, a Fellow at East Asian Legal Studies, Harvard Law School. A widower, Seow now lives in Arlington, Massachusetts.

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"...a devastating account of the destruction of the rule of law..." -- Ian Baruma, The New York Review

"...a very necessary book which will affect public perceptions...a worthy contribution to the serious study of repression everywhere." --Margaret John, Amnesty International

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