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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Blackett. A soft-hearted pacifist who once worked for the League of Nations, he arrives in Singapore and promptly begins to wander away from Walter's zealously charted course by getting involved with a beautiful Chinese refugee and exploring the teeming districts of Chinatown and Boat Quay, where lightermen, stevedores and rickshaw pullers scrounge out a meager living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sense of Place: Singapore | 2/19/2009 | See Source »

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