Catalogue 2012 - GB Gerakbudaya
Catalogue 2012 - GB Gerakbudaya
Catalogue 2012 - GB Gerakbudaya
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SIRD / <strong>Gerakbudaya</strong><br />
New<br />
Once a Jolly Hangman<br />
Singapore Justice in the Dock (2nd Edition)<br />
Alan Shadrake<br />
Over the past few decades,<br />
investigative journalism has come to<br />
mean the kind of brave reporting that<br />
exposes injustice, wrongdoing and,<br />
above all, the abuse of power. Alan<br />
Shadrake’s hard-hitting book cuts<br />
through the official silence to reveal<br />
disturbing truths about Singapore’s<br />
use of the death penalty. From in-depth<br />
interviews with Darshan Singh,<br />
Singapore’s chief executioner for nearly<br />
fifty years, to meticulously researched accounts of numerous<br />
high profile cases, Once a Jolly Hangman is an exposé of<br />
gross abuses of fundamental human rights. This completely<br />
revised and updated edition also offers a compelling<br />
account of the author’s arrest and trial for contempt of<br />
court for daring to put the Singapore justice system in<br />
the dock.<br />
Publisher: SIRD<br />
2011: 260 pp<br />
ISBN: 9789675832215: RM45.00 / S$29.50<br />
New<br />
The Mighty Wave<br />
He Jin<br />
A major novel about the anti-colonial<br />
mass movement in Singapore in the<br />
1950s which started with the Chinese<br />
middle school students assembling on 13<br />
May 1954 at the pavements of Penang<br />
Road to petition the Governor for their<br />
exemption from national service. This<br />
mass gathering was forcibly broken up by<br />
the riot police. It ends with the 1959<br />
general election, in which the political<br />
party they supported triumphed. The protagonists of the<br />
novel look forward to contributing to the new phase in<br />
Singapore’s political development. That was not to be.<br />
Set in the more rustic Singapore in the 1950s some of the<br />
scenes depicted are recognizable by the older generation,<br />
but have disappeared from the modern landscape. They<br />
cover locations like Tiong Bahru, Pasir Panjang, Siglap, and<br />
the Beach Road vicinity. The Mighty Wave is a Singaporean<br />
novel which deserves a place in the country's literary<br />
history.<br />
Publisher: SIRD<br />
2011: 386 pp<br />
ISBN: 9789675832178: RM38.00 / S$24.70<br />
New<br />
Singapore Sucks!<br />
Singa Crew<br />
Tel: +603 - 7957 8342/8343 Fax: +603 - 7954 9202 E-mail: sird@streamyx.com<br />
Website: www.gerakbudaya.com & bookshop.gbgerakbudaya.com<br />
<strong>Catalogue</strong> <strong>2012</strong><br />
If there ever is a book that the Singapore<br />
Tourism Board does not want published,<br />
Singapore Sucks! is it. Tourists looking<br />
for the same old tired propaganda about a<br />
sterilised shopping paradise should go waste<br />
their money on government-owned dailies.<br />
Singapore Sucks! Is a bouquet of sarcasm, is<br />
humour, insolent honesty and the discerning<br />
reader may even recognise a hint of patriotic<br />
fervour. Through an eclectic collection of short stories,<br />
essays and poems, our panel of largely Singaporean writers<br />
have captured and managed to convey the peculiar brand of<br />
insanity that can only be described as Uniquely Singapore.<br />
If you have ever wondered about Singaporeans' fascination<br />
with white culture, the Singlish vs. English divide or those<br />
elusive "Asian values" our politicians keep trying to shove<br />
down our docile minds, then this book is a must-read for you.<br />
Publisher: <strong>Gerakbudaya</strong> Enterprise<br />
2011: 134 pp<br />
ISBN: 9789834479398: RM20.00 / S$13.00<br />
New<br />
The May 13 Generation<br />
The Chinese Middle Schools Student<br />
Movement and Singapore Politics in the<br />
1950s<br />
Edited by Tan Jing Quee, Tan Kok Chiang and Hong Lysa<br />
The May 13 Generation was the first<br />
belonging to the immigrant communities from<br />
China to grapple with the issues of being<br />
Malayan/Singaporean, breaking irrevocably<br />
with the received wisdoms of their elders, and<br />
in a political climate where their explorations<br />
were deemed to be subversive.<br />
This book comprises the recollections penned by the<br />
participants of the era of the 1950s, where their generation<br />
was in the forefront of the anti-colonial movement, and<br />
the work of academic researchers who have examined the<br />
historical framework and context of the period, as well as<br />
how it has been made to fit into the country’s mainstream<br />
history. The researchers have also examined the students’<br />
cultural expressions, whether it is in art, drama, dance<br />
or literature and found them to be socially engaged, and<br />
grappling with the question of who they were as a people.<br />
The cultural explorations of that period have been forgotten<br />
or repudiated. It is revealing just how this amnesia and<br />
silence has become so set.<br />
Publisher: SIRD<br />
2011: 372 pp<br />
ISBN: 9789675832161: RM50.00 / S$32.50