摘要：on 31 august 1960, the singaPore Free Press ran an article with the rather contro- versial headline: “Bad boys … comics to blame, say the teachers”. Some 58 teachers from english schools had met at a closed- door meeting to debate the ill-effects of comics on teenagers. After six long hours, the meeting concluded that comics were a form of “misguided culture” and con- tributed towards juvenile delinquency in Singapore. The declaration was part of the government’s decade-long campaign against “yellow culture” — a movement against Western decadence, pornogra- phy and gangsterism — that had been launched the previous year.
