{"id":223820,"date":"2025-10-19T04:45:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T04:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/223820\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T04:45:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T04:45:23","slug":"weekend-long-read-how-singapores-chief-architect-helped-shape-reform-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/223820\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Long Read: How Singapore\u2019s \u2018Chief Architect\u2019 Helped Shape Reform in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published: Oct. 17, 2025\u00a0\u00a07:56 p.m.\u00a0\u00a0GMT+8<\/p>\n<p>                             &#13;<br \/>\n                                 \u60a8\u7684\u6d4f\u89c8\u5668\u4e0d\u652f\u6301 audio \u6807\u7b7e\u3002&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                                    Listen to this article&#13;<br \/>\n                                    &#13;<br \/>\n                                        1x&#13;<br \/>\n                                    &#13;\n                                <\/p>\n<p>     <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/176070145032071_1280_720.jpg\" alt=\"In the hallway leading from the living room to the living area, a smiling bust of Goh Keng Swee stands. Ding Lisong, founder of Guangdong Development Bank, presented this bust personally and in the name of Gu Mu in 1998. Photo: Vickie\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In the hallway leading from the living room to the living area, a smiling bust of Goh Keng Swee stands. Ding Lisong, founder of Guangdong Development Bank, presented this bust personally and in the name of Gu Mu in 1998. Photo: Vickie<\/p>\n<p>(Singapore) \u2014 In a quiet corner of Singapore\u2019s eastern coast, an unassuming two-story house could easily be mistaken for any other. Step inside, though, and it unfolds like a miniature China museum. The rooms are filled with ink paintings, porcelain vases, hand-woven carpets, bronze horses and embroidery from every corner of the country \u2014 Jiangsu, Guangdong, Yunnan, Guizhou and beyond.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/loading.gif\" alt=\"loadingImg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve accessed an article available only to subscribers<\/p>\n<p>VIEW OPTIONS\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><a data-flip-widget=\"shareflip\" href=\"https:\/\/flipboard.com\" class=\"share-flipboard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n              Share now and your friends&#13;<br \/>\n              will read it for free!&#13;\n            <\/p>\n<p>Share this article<\/p>\n<p>Open WeChat and scan the QR code<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published: Oct. 17, 2025\u00a0\u00a07:56 p.m.\u00a0\u00a0GMT+8 &#13; \u60a8\u7684\u6d4f\u89c8\u5668\u4e0d\u652f\u6301 audio \u6807\u7b7e\u3002&#13; &#13; Listen to this article&#13; &#13; 1x&#13; &#13; In&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-223820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}