Living the Asian Century: An Undiplomatic Memoir

在这本激动人心的回忆录中，一位杰出的政治家和外交家追溯了新加坡共和国从一个贫穷的殖民地转变为亚洲强国的过程 20 世纪 50 年代，马凯硕在贫困中长大，他原本以为高中毕业后会成为一名普通的纺织品销售员。然而，政府奖学金将他送入新加坡大学，四年后，他进入了该国外交部。与此同时，马凯硕的表兄弟在印度残酷的分治后分散在世界各地，从圭亚那到中国香港，几乎没有人能完成大学学业。 在同一时期，新加坡本身正在经历蜕变。1959 年，新加坡获得内部自治，六年后实现完全独立，这个国家与马凯硕一起成长。随着他的明星地位上升，这个国家的明星地位也上升了。 在《生活在亚洲世纪》一书中，马凯硕生动地记述了自己的人生历程：从多民族社区的贫困童年到辉煌的外交生涯，他远离新加坡，从柬埔寨到澳大利亚，从马来西亚到美国和联合国，包括影响力的高峰——安理会。 一路走来，马凯硕已成为亚洲知名的评论家和发言人之一，其独特视角横跨印度、中国和西方。 In this stirring memoir, a preeminent politician and diplomat traces the transformation of the Republic of Singapore from a poor colony into an Asian powerhouse Growing up in poverty in the 1950s, Kishore Mahbubani expected to become a common textile salesman after finishing high school. Instead, a government scholarship sent him to the University of Singapore, and four years later he found himself in the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Meanwhile, almost none of Mahbubani's cousins, scattered around the world after India's brutal partition, from Guyana to Hong Kong, China, would complete university. During this same period, Singapore itself was undergoing a metamorphosis. Granted internal self-governance in 1959 and achieving full independence six years later, the country came of age alongside Mahbubani. And as his star rose, so did the nation's. In Living the Asian Century, Mahbubani vividly chronicles his own life going from a poor young life in a multiethnic neighborhood to an illustrious diplomatic career that led him far from Singapore, from Cambodia to Australia, Malaysia to the United States and the UN-including the pinnacle of influence, the Security Council. Along the way Mahbubani has become one of Asia's most widely known commentators and spokespeople, with a unique perspective that straddles India, China, and the West.