Disneyland with the Death Penalty (English Wikipedia)

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Hilsum, Lindsay (October 5, 2007). "Why Burma Was Crushed". Channel 4. Archived from the original on October 21, 2012. Retrieved September 24, 2008. He turned Singapore into an immensely rich, alarmingly clean, politically repressive city-state, described by the science-fiction writer William Gibson as "Disneyland with the death penalty".

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"University Scholars Program". National University of Singapore. Archived from the original on October 3, 2008. Retrieved September 24, 2008.

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R. W. Apple Jr. (September 10, 2003). "Asian Journey; Snacker's Paradise: Devouring Singapore's Endless Supper". The New York Times. Retrieved September 23, 2008.

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Cover of Wired issue 1.4 in which Disneyland with the Death Penalty originally appeared

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McCullagh, Declan (August 1, 2003). "Something's in the air: liberties in the face of SARS and other infectious diseases". Reason. Another explanation for Singapore's comparative success in containing SARS is its single-minded determination to take whatever steps necessary, with scant regard for such individual liberties as the right to travel and associate freely. This is the city-state the cyber-punk writer William Gibson once described as "Disneyland with the death penalty": While free trade is largely embraced, chaos is verboten.

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Chong, Terence (2005). "From Global to Local: Singapore's Cultural Policy and Its Consequences". Critical Asian Studies. 37 (4): 553–68. doi:10.1080/14672710500348455. S2CID 153634282.

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Rae, Paul (2004). ""10/12": When Singapore Became the Bali of the Twenty-First Century?" (PDF). Forum on Contemporary Art & Society. No. 5. Singapore: Substation. pp. 218–255. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-01-07. While an ability to capture the zeitgeist is to be taken seriously in a context such as this one, Gibson's journalistic reportage is inevitably unrefined

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Culshaw, Peter (February 26, 2005). "You will now be creative!". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on October 1, 2008. Retrieved September 23, 2008.

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Poole, Steven (October 3, 1996). "Virtually in love". The Guardian. Retrieved October 8, 2009.
Purdon, James (September 12, 2010). "Zero History by William Gibson". The Observer. guardian.co.uk (Guardian Media Group). Retrieved September 12, 2010.

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Gibson, William (September–October 1993). "Disneyland with the Death Penalty". Wired. Vol. 1, no. 4. Condé Nast Publications. Archived from the original on March 13, 2025. Retrieved September 23, 2008.
Culshaw, Peter (February 26, 2005). "You will now be creative!". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on October 1, 2008. Retrieved September 23, 2008.
Hilsum, Lindsay (October 5, 2007). "Why Burma Was Crushed". Channel 4. Archived from the original on October 21, 2012. Retrieved September 24, 2008. He turned Singapore into an immensely rich, alarmingly clean, politically repressive city-state, described by the science-fiction writer William Gibson as "Disneyland with the death penalty".
Gibson, William (May 22, 2003). "S'PORE, IN RETROSPECT". WilliamGibsonBooks.com. Archived from the original on January 21, 2013. Retrieved January 24, 2010.
"University Scholars Program". National University of Singapore. Archived from the original on October 3, 2008. Retrieved September 24, 2008.
Rae, Paul (2004). ""10/12": When Singapore Became the Bali of the Twenty-First Century?" (PDF). Forum on Contemporary Art & Society. No. 5. Singapore: Substation. pp. 218–255. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-01-07. While an ability to capture the zeitgeist is to be taken seriously in a context such as this one, Gibson's journalistic reportage is inevitably unrefined
What is Authenticity? Singapore as Potemkin Metropolis" a response to Gibson and Koolhaas by Tang Weng Hong (archive)

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Gibson, William (May 22, 2003). "S'PORE, IN RETROSPECT". WilliamGibsonBooks.com. Archived from the original on January 21, 2013. Retrieved January 24, 2010.

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Gibson, William (September–October 1993). "Disneyland with the Death Penalty". Wired. Vol. 1, no. 4. Condé Nast Publications. Archived from the original on March 13, 2025. Retrieved September 23, 2008.