A Building with One Side Missing: Liberal Arts and Illiberal Modernities in Singapore

Raffles College, Singapore’s first comprehensive institution of higher education, brought a particular pedagogical community into being from its opening in 1928 to its temporary closure during the Pacific War in December 1941. Two areas of tension at the college were the incorporation of Asia and As...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Sojourn (Singapore) 2018-03, Vol.33 (1), p.1-28
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