<p>The author interweaves his personal experiences in China with a discussion of the history, culture, and present situation of the Chinese people and the factors that have formed the Chinese character</p>

The Chinese Looking Glass

History

Dennis. Bloodworth

Asia

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

Clients of Omega

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

HarperCollins Distribution Services

‘Some mug had to do it,’ said Lee Kuan Yew, explaining what appeared to be an act of pure folly – the decision of a politically puny group of young nationalists to take on the powerful communist movement in a crucial struggle for the strategic gateway to the East - Singapore. In the first phase the antagonists became partners, for while the nationalists were obliged to ride the communist tiger to gain the support of the masses, the outlawed communists saw their group as a Trojan Horse through which they could capture constitutional power in a key British colony. But the ultimate aim of the ambitious ‘moderates’ was to rid Singapore of both colonialists and communists, in that order. And they succeeded.    This is no academic study, and the often bizarre inside story of that duel between  ill-matched between adversaries - the People’s Action Party and the Communist United Front - is brought startlingly to life in an account full of irony and paradox, strange encounters, bloody riots, and brutal assasinations. The author takes us into the half-world of the communist underground, with its elaborate tradecraft and secret rendezvous in a vivid tale of ruthlessness matched against ruthlessness, seen from both sides, and told with cool impartiality.

The Tiger and the Trojan Horse

Times Editions-Marshall Cavendish

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