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Living the Asian century : an undiplomatic memoir

Mahbubani, Kishore, author

2024

Overview

\"Growing up in poverty in the 1950s, Kishore Mahbubani expected to become a common textile salesman after finishing high school. Instead, a government scholarship sent him to the University of Singapore, and four years later he found himself in the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Meanwhile, almost none of Mahbubani's cousins, scattered around the world after India's brutal partition, from Guyana to Hong Kong, would complete university. During this same period, Singapore itself was undergoing a metamorphosis. Granted internal self-governance in 1959 and achieving full independence six years later, the country came of age alongside Mahbubani. And as his star rose, so did the nation's. In Living the Asian Century, Mahbubani vividly chronicles his own life going from a poor childhood in a multiethnic neighbourhood to an illustrious diplomatic career that led him far from Singapore, from Cambodia to Australia, Malaysia to the United States and the UN - including the pinnacle of influence, the Security Council. Along the way Mahbubani has become one of Asia's most widely known commentators and spokespeople, with a unique perspective that straddles India, China, and the West\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: PublicAffairs
• Subject: Mahbubani, Kishore. / Singapore. Ministry of Foreign Affairs Officials and employees Biography. / United Nations Biography. / Diplomats Singapore Biography. / Sindhi (South Asian people) Singapore Biography. / Singapore Foreign relations.
• ISBN: 9781541703049

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
DS610.73.M34 A3 2024	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE