Search for cultural-intellectual rejuvenation in Asia

LAST month, Professor Michael Heng argued in Singapore that in order to achieve the Asian Century, there is a need for Asian cultural-intellectual rejuvenation. Heng’s lecture was in the tradition of NUS Dean Kishore Mahbubani’s 1998 challenge – “Can Asians think?”

This search for intellectual rejuvenation is made more urgent by the rise of Trumpism, which has overturned the American neo-liberal world order to spread free markets, democracy and technology to the rest of the world.