State Violence in East Asia

by N. Ganesan, Sung Chull Kim

Overview

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 contributor

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813136790
Publisher:	University Press of Kentucky
Publication date:	02/22/2013
Series:	Asia in the New Millennium
Pages:	308
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.10(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

N. Ganesan is professor of southeast Asian politics at the Hiroshima Peace Institute and the coeditor of International Relations in Southeast Asia: Between Bilateralism and Multilateralism. Sung Chull Kim is Humanities Korea Professor in the Institute for Peace and Unification Studies at Seoul National University.

Editorial Reviews

"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

"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

"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

"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

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