State Violence in East Asia (Asia in the New Millennium) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0813136792 ISBN 13: 9780813136790

Verlag: The University Press of Kentucky, 2013

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""A timely work, presenting various international perspectives and demonstrating up-to-date scholarly accomplishment that challenges experts, policy-makers, and educators to move into the 'dark-side' of the political history of Asian countries. This remarkable volume of original essays draws on extensive multi-national archival research, especially newly released documents."" -- Xiaobing Li, author of A History of the Modern Chinese Army ""Whether read for specific cases or in its entirety, State Violence in Asia is a significant contribution to scholarship on post-World War II Asia generally, and Cold War Asia specifically."" -- John E. Van Sant, coeditor of The Historical Dictionary of United States-Japan Relations

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The world was watching when footage of the "tank man"-the lone Chinese citizen blocking the passage of a column of tanks during the brutal 1989 crackdown on protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen Square-first appeared in the media. The furtive video is now regarded as an iconic depiction of a government's violence against its own people. Throughout the twentieth century, states across East Asia committed many relatively undocumented atrocities, with victims numbering in the millions. The contributors to this insightful volume analyze many of the most notorious cases, including the Japanese army's Okinawan killings in 1945, Indonesia's anticommunist purge in 1965-1968, Thailand's Red Drum incinerations in 1972-1975, Cambodia's Khmer Rouge massacre in 1975-1978, Korea's Kwangju crackdown in 1980, the Philippines' Mendiola incident in 1987, Myanmar's suppression of the democratic movement in 1988, and China's Tiananmen incident. With in-depth investigation of events that have long been misunderstood or kept hidden from public scrutiny, State Violence in East Asia provides critical insights into the political and cultural dynamics of state-sanctioned violence and discusses ways to prevent it in the future.

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• Verlag: The University Press of Kentucky
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0813136792
• ISBN 13: 9780813136790
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 310
• Herausgeber: Ganesan N., Kim Sung Chull