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The term “Asian values” became popularized in the political discourse in the 1980s and 1990s. The most vocal proponents of Asian values were Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew and Malaysia’s Mahathir Mohammed and their deputies and government officials, as well as post-Tiananmen Chinese leaders.1 Most notable of all these three strands of the Asian values debate is the “Singapore School”, which “comprises leaders who have articulated a defence of the Singapore regime, either in their personal or official capacities”.2
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Anthony J. Langlois, The Politics of Justice and Human Rights: Southeast Asia and Universalist Theory (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), p. 21.
Raj Vasil, A sianising Singapore: The PAP’ s Managemen t of Ethnicity (Singapore: Heinemann Asia, 1995)
Some argue that it began even earlier in 1970 or so. See Michael Barr, Cultural Politics and Asian Values: The Tepid War (London and New York: Routledge, 2002).
See Cumculum Development Institute of Singapore, Good Citizen: 5B (Textbook) (Singapore: EPB Publishers, 1983) (in Chinese), pp. 24–25.
CDIS, Good Citizen: 1A (Textbook) (Singapore: EPB Publishers, 1980) (in Chinese), pp. 30–31.
CDIS, Good Citizen: 3A (Textbook) (Singapore: EPB Publishers, 1981) (in Chinese)
CDIS, Good Citizen: 3A (Textbook) (Singapore: EPB Publishers, 1981)
CDIS, Good Citizen: SA (Textbook) (Singapore: EPB Publishers, 1982)
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Chia, YT. (2015). The Crisis of “Deculturalization” and the Invention of “Asian Values”. In: Education, Culture and the Singapore Developmental State. Education, Economy and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137374608_4
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