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It points to the need for a Merdeka history: an open and fearless culture of historical reckoning that not only untangles us from colonial narratives, but proposes emancipatory possibilities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbout the Editors\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAlfian Sa’at\u003c\/strong\u003e is the Resident Playwright of Wild Rice. His plays with Wild Rice include Hotel (with Marcia Vanderstraaten), The Asian Boys Trilogy, Cooling-Off Day, The Optic Trilogy, Homesick and Merdeka \/ 獨立 \/ சுதந்திரம் (with Neo Hai Bin). He was the winner of the Golden Point Award for Poetry and the National Arts Council Young Artist Award for Literature in 2001. His publications include Collected Plays One, Two, and Three; poetry collections \u003ca data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.citybookroom.com\/product-page\/one-fierce-hour-by-alfian-sa-at\" href=\"https:\/\/www.citybookroom.com\/product-page\/one-fierce-hour-by-alfian-sa-at\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eOne Fierce Hour\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.citybookroom.com\/product-page\/a-history-of-amnesia-alfian-sa-at\" href=\"https:\/\/www.citybookroom.com\/product-page\/a-history-of-amnesia-alfian-sa-at\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eA History of Amnesia\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.citybookroom.com\/product-page\/the-invisible-manusript-by-alfian-sa-at\" href=\"https:\/\/www.citybookroom.com\/product-page\/the-invisible-manusript-by-alfian-sa-at\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eThe Invisible Manuscript\u003c\/a\u003e; and short-story collections\u003ca data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.citybookroom.com\/product-page\/corridor-12-short-stories-by-alfian-sa-at\" href=\"https:\/\/www.citybookroom.com\/product-page\/corridor-12-short-stories-by-alfian-sa-at\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e Corridor \u003c\/a\u003eand\u003ca data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.citybookroom.com\/product-page\/malay-sketches-by-alfian-sa-at\" href=\"https:\/\/www.citybookroom.com\/product-page\/malay-sketches-by-alfian-sa-at\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e Malay Sketches\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFaris Joraimi\u003c\/strong\u003e is pursuing his BA(Hons) in History at the Yale-NUS College. His research interests lie in the narrative traditions, cultural politics and intellectual history of the Malay world. He hopes to pursue graduate studies and explore ways in which texts and their materiality reflect broader processes of exchange, circulation and consumption in the early modern Nusantara. He has written for a number of platforms, including s\/pores, Mynah Magazine, New Naratif, Karyawan, Passage, Budi Kritik and 天下 (Commonwealth Magazine, Taiwan). \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSai Siew Min\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Taipei-based Singaporean historian who researches Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia with a focus on imperial formation in Southeast Asia, the cultural politics of colonialism and nationalism, language, race and Chineseness. She is a founder member of the s\/pores collective. Her essays on historiography in Singapore have appeared online in s\/pores: new directions in Singapore Studies. Her academic writings have appeared in the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Journal of Chinese Overseas, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies. 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Inspired by Brown Is Haram, a performance-lecture on minority-race narratives staged at The Substation in 2021, this anthology reflects on how brownness is constructed, sidelined, but also celebrated in this nation-state. Through a combination of essays, academic works, poems, and stories by brown individuals, Brown is Redacted both attempts to and fails to create a singular brown experience. What this anthology does produce instead, is a moving and expressive work of solidarity and vulnerability.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBrown is Redacted\u003c\/em\u003e is an incredible and much-needed collection of work that challenges preconceived notions about state- and socially created categories. The works here interrogate the nature of identity, using the lenses of art, academia and personal experience and capturing the dreary pain of being othered as well as the powerful joy of being seen. 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But it has become so much more than that. For Bersih was – is? – a Big Thing. You don’t bring the nation’s capital to a standstill – five times from 2007 to 2016 – without leaving an enduring impact.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBut how did it start, and by whom? (Spoiler alert: It wasn’t Ambiga.) Dozens of people involved in the very first Bersih speak candidly to journalist Danny Lim about the motivations, strategies, surprising cooperations and inevitable compromises that resulted in the movement.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBersih played a crucial – and very public – role in revolutionising the political landscape in Malaysia. For the genesis of Bersih is the genesis of Pakatan Rakyat, which led to Pakatan Harapan and the end of Barisan Nasional’s 61-year stranglehold on power.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWE ARE MARCHING NOW is a breezy account of who was there, what they did – and where we are now.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbout the author\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDanny Lim is a freelance journalist and writer who has worked for many Malaysian and international media organisations on a wide variety of issues, most frequently with the BBC, as well as Al-Jazeera and The Edge.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"ISRIZAL","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43575983931610,"sku":"","price":20.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9344\/0730\/products\/1C10428C-5BB5-49F0-887E-14207102E824.jpg?v=1671876552"},{"product_id":"comet-in-our-sky-lim-chin-siong-in-history-new-edition","title":"Comet in Our Sky : Lim Chin Siong in History (New edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdited by Poo Soo Kai\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLim Chin Siong was the most prominent left-wing leader in Singapore for a decade until he was eliminated from the political scene by the infamous Operation Coldstore on February 2, 1963. 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The author pulls into the spotlight the key contradictions that organise families in contemporary Singapore, conditions that families around the world share: prosperity without pleasure, childhoods without playfulness and education that feels like work for parents and children alike, especially for mothers. Teo You Yenn argues that anxiety, competition and hierarchy influence the tacit knowledge and everyday practices of parents more than we realise. Inequality, she reminds us, harms us all, not just those struggling at the bottom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough meticulous research, conveyed through the empathetic voice of a lifelong educator, this book prompts us to realise our shared humanity, our care for our children and the promise of a family life beyond the stresses of kiasu parenting. As you pick up this book, know that Teo You Yenn is asking every reader to make a break from a life structured by inequality to participate in creating a new collective culture of inclusive prosperity, built on the values of ethical agency, solidarity and respect for human worth.—\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSmitha Radhakrishnan\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e (\u003c\/span\u003eMarion Butler McLean Professor\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ein the History of Ideas and Professor of Sociology,\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eWellesley College)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a book that asks us to look closely at how responsibility and care are practised in everyday life and what we quietly pass on and pass over in the process. It articulates with particular force the gap between the values we profess out loud and the quieter logics we reproduce through habit, silence and structure—giving shape to tensions many of us live with but rarely have language for.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten with striking intellectual precision and a profound attentiveness to lived experience, this is scholarship that makes room for the heart without sacrificing rigour, and for rigour without losing the human. This work is incisive, intimate and quietly heartbreaking in what it helps us see. It asks, with quiet insistence, what we are really raising ourselves—and our children—to value, and why that question matters more than ever now. —\u003cstrong\u003ePooja Nansi\u003c\/strong\u003e, Poet\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe idea that the family is a basic unit of society is widely held, and not just in Asian societies. 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Teo You Yenn’s \u003ci\u003eUnease\u003c\/i\u003e is both a model of qualitative social research—learning deeply from the lived experiences of wage workers in Singapore—and a meditation on the disjuncture between ideal and reality and how we can imagine a good society based on relationships of mutuality and solidarity.—\u003cstrong\u003eKwok Kian Woon\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e(\u003c\/span\u003eEmeritus Professor of Sociology, Nanyang Technological University)\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTeo You Yenn does it again. \u003ci\u003eUnease\u003c\/i\u003e represents what good social science research should look like, marrying analytical sharpness with social consciousness. In her typically accessible writing style, she details the lived realities of some Singaporean families which are often glossed over or ignored when macro data is put forth.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eStatistics do not always capture the complex lives of individuals. This book fills that gap well, reminding us that human beings should never be reduced to mere numbers.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProf Teo takes the experiences of ordinary Singaporeans seriously. More of us should. Her impassioned call for Singapore to engage in self-introspection on ideas such as meritocracy should be genuinely considered by those in power and everyone else, as evidently, not everyone benefits equally from the system. Hopefully, those who read the book will be filled with some unease, realising that for many people, life is not as comfortable as the stats suggest. Singaporeans should indeed be, in her words, “allowed ambivalence, contradictory feelings, and critical responses to our own lives and the city”. —\u003cstrong\u003eWalid Jumblatt Abdullah\u003c\/strong\u003e (Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University; Author of \u003ci\u003eWhy Palestine?: Reflections From Singapore \u003c\/i\u003e)\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTeo You Yenn looks behind the façade of Singapore’s developmental success at what it feels like to actually live there. She finds that many parents feel a palpable sense of unease. Under intense pressure to do everything it takes to help their kids succeed, they feel overextended, stressed out, exhausted and yet still inadequate. They also feel like they have no choice but to play this game. They feel trapped, ironically, by a national identity predicated on success.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe brilliance of \u003ci\u003eUnease\u003c\/i\u003e is its systematic and sensitive exploration of the texture of everyday life in Singapore. It goes a long way in helping us understand not only how Singaporeans feel but also why they feel this way. The book enlarges our perspective on ‘development’ by examining its hidden psychic and emotional costs. In doing so, it creates the space necessary for Singaporeans (and all of us) to ask crucial questions about what a good society—not just a rich or developed one—should look like. —\u003cstrong\u003eMarco Garrido\u003c\/strong\u003e (Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, The University of Chicago )\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhy, in a country that prides itself on its ‘pro-family’ policies, do parents feel deep unease and worry about their children? Drawing on the lived experience of Singapore parents across class and gender, Teo You Yenn shows that their fears about their children’s preparedness for uncertain futures crowd out the joys and possibilities of parenting. In lucid, approachable prose, she demonstrates how structural constraints—state policy, labour markets, educational systems—shape what seem like individual parenting decisions. Teo vividly illuminates how social conditions shape lived realities and political subjectivities, and how inequalities come to seem natural. Her analysis offers an alternative political imaginary, defined by a common sense of collective care, solidarity and agency, rather than individualism and fear.—\u003cstrong\u003eRachel Sherman\u003c\/strong\u003e (Michael E. Gellert Professor of Sociology, The New School;\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAuthor of Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnease\u003c\/i\u003e—what a marvellous title, and what an excellent book. Teo has not only revealed the palpable tension between the imagined and real narratives of Singaporean families, but also opened an important portal that tells us about the lives and realities of families in countries across the world! A real accomplishment and a must-read for anyone interested in learning about family and society today. —\u003cstrong\u003eIto Peng (\u003c\/strong\u003eProfessor and Canada Research Chair in Global Social Policy; Director, Centre for Global Social Policy, Department of Sociology and Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTeo You Yenn offers another lucid analysis of Singaporean families. Blending sociological insight with rich ethnographic stories and a commitment to social change, she uncovers the roots of parental anxieties, explores the broader context of inequality and invites readers to reflect on what a good society should look like.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eLan Pei-Chia\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e (\u003c\/span\u003eDistinguished Professor of Sociology, National Taiwan University)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTEO You Yenn\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor and Provost’s Chair in Sociology, and Director of the Centre for the Study of Social Inequality, at Nanyang Technological University. Her research focuses on poverty and inequality, care regimes and minimum income standards. 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At the age of 73, Xi Xi traveled extensively across Asia, from tropical forests to conservation centers, immersing herself in the natural world of apes and monkeys\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eXi Xi then documented 51 endearing ape and monkey puppets that she had sewn, weaving them into a series of insightful dialogues with her friend, the Hong Kong writer Ho Fuk Yan. These discussions cover the depiction of apes and monkeys in Chinese and Western literature, painting, drama, and film, as well as the close relationship between humans and their primate relatives. Xi Xi's own words, imbued with a profound empathy, reveal the heart of her work: \"If there is a common theme to our conversation, it is to respect life and speak for those lives that have been discriminated against in the history of human development, and apes are the starting point for this.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"City Book Room ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48043973443802,"sku":"9789882373556","price":80.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9344\/0730\/files\/51f94tVoovL._AC_UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1781242068"},{"product_id":"yuan_hou_zhi_xixi","title":"猿猴志 \/ 西西","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e2011 香港書展「年度文學作家」　西西 繼娃娃屋、毛熊後，再使 巧手縫猿，妙筆寫猴 趣緻之外，更是充滿關愛及創意，獨一無二的「西西體猿猴」 　從十八世紀英國喬治亞風的娃娃屋（《我的喬治亞》），到栩栩如生的中國古代毛熊（《縫熊志》），西西的「手作工藝╱公仔」主題創作，像是趟賞玩不盡的奇趣旅程，而她就是嚮導，再一次，帶引我們踏入神秘的猿猴世界。 　\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e為作《猿猴志》，西西以七十三之齡，仍行至亞洲（日本、新加坡、馬來西亞、中國、香港）各動物園、保育中心、熱帶雨林……等，實地遊訪，探察猿猴原貌，據以直美詳實的文字，抒寫五十一隻她親手縫製、模樣可愛的猿猴布偶；並有一系列與香港作家好友何福仁的深入對談，囊括中西文學、繪畫、戲劇、電影裡的猿猴形象，又及人類與近親猿猴的緊密情結，展現兩人博學的見聞與知識 ── 這六篇對談的精神，西西自己說：我們的談話，如果有一個主題，那就是尊重生命，為那些人類發展上一直受歧視的生命說話，猿猴是切入點。 　\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e閱讀猿猴，其實是閱讀我們自己，可以讀到彼此的相同，也可以讀到彼此的相異。 　而希望人類對於自然環境的珍惜、尊重，生靈能否自由且愉悅地存在著，在每隻猿猴諧趣、繽紛的造型色彩下，誠是全書的諄諄關懷。 　書中介紹之猿猴分為五類：原猴類、新大陸猴、舊大陸猴、猿類，另將數量稀少、已瀕滅絕邊緣者編為一類「那些瀕臨滅絕的靈長目」。每篇猿猴文章均附西西手作猴圖，以及猿猴原樣或西西、何福仁手繪插圖，以供讀者對照觀賞。「附錄」中更煞費苦心，蒐集整理了種種猿猴分類科目表，希望大家對於這些近親生靈，能夠有更進一步的認識與瞭解。\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e英譯本 \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/citybookroom.com\/products\/the-monkey-chronicles-xi-xi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eThe Monkey Chronicles\u003c\/a\u003e 於 2026 年出版。\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"City Book Room ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48044051726554,"sku":"9789576743184","price":25.2,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9344\/0730\/files\/9789576743184-550x550h.jpg?v=1781247750"},{"product_id":"pre-order-shopkeepers-of-chinatown-loh-kah-seng-stephen-dobbs","title":"[Pre-order] Shopkeepers of Chinatown \/ Loh Kah Seng, Stephen Dobbs","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe book will be available after mid of July! \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWithin this book are stories of shopkeepers, stallholders and other small businesses rarely featured in the Singapore Story. 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