Chances are you know very little about oppositionist Chee Soon Juan.
He is the current leader of the Singapore Democratic Party and has been portrayed as a gangster and mad man on the one hand, and a freedom fighter on the other. Now there's a book about him, written by 10 authors, to help you make your own informed opinion.
“I hope that this is the birth of Dr Chee as a new man, as a new person, seen not from the light of the newspapers and the Government but from the light of people who really know him,” Mr Fong Hoe Fang, a publisher, who edited the book Teacher, Thinker, Rebel Why? Portraits of Chee Soon Juan.
Among the essays is one by Dr Tan Lip Hong, who touches on the establishment of Speaker's Corner and Dr Chee's role in it. “It was a milestone...he's changed a lot of minds and he's been very persistent and is a die-hard, and that has opened up the political space for all of us,” he writes.
Click here to order the book online.
Chances are you know very little about oppositionist Chee Soon Juan.
He is the current leader of the Singapore Democratic Party and has been portrayed as a gangster and mad man on the one hand, and a freedom fighter on the other. Now there's a book about him, written by 10 authors, to help you make your own informed opinion.
“I hope that this is the birth of Dr Chee as a new man, as a new person, seen not from the light of the newspapers and the Government but from the light of people who really know him,” Mr Fong Hoe Fang, a publisher, who edited the book Teacher, Thinker, Rebel Why? Portraits of Chee Soon Juan.
Among the essays is one by Dr Tan Lip Hong, who touches on the establishment of Speaker's Corner and Dr Chee's role in it. “It was a milestone...he's changed a lot of minds and he's been very persistent and is a die-hard, and that has opened up the political space for all of us,” he writes.
Click here to order the book online.