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However, Lee Kuan Yew believed that the crux of the challenge was that Singapore was a terrible place to do business.

why on earth would we believe that a colonizing impulse would magically lead to universal prosperity this time around?

Hawaiians' authenticity as an autochthonous people was and is often tied to their relationship to land and ocean.

respectively—transforms colonial possession into benign and mutually agreeable exchanges, all the while disguising the material, economic, and political conditions under which colonized islanders labored.

I keenly hope that the wise administrators in Singapore will continue their commitment to the humanities and social sciences.

Bobby recognized that Chinese people would have little interest in the libertarian ideas of American Bitcoiners—decades of state-sponsored communism had killed most interest in ideologies.

fragmentation of the social sense-making and collective action capacity

We can find similar efforts in the grass-roots movements that were begun in Republican China by Liang Shuming and Tao Xingzhi, the mass-education movement of Jimmy Yan, the folklore movement of Zhou Zuoren and Gu Jiegang, the industrial cooperative movement that was simulataneous with the Yan’an cooperatives of the late 1930s and 1940s, and the ear

Guobin Yang and Craig Calhoun have dubbed this activism the ‘Green public sphere’ in China.