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State violence in East Asia / edited by N. Ganesan and Sung Chull Kim.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Asia in the new millennium.
- Asia in the New Millennium
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political violence--East Asia.
- Political violence.
- Political violence--Southeast Asia.
- State-sponsored terrorism--East Asia.
- State-sponsored terrorism.
- State-sponsored terrorism--Southeast Asia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (0 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction : conceiving state violence, justice, and transition in East Asia / Sung Chull Kim and N. Ganesan
- Interpreting state violence in Asian settings / Vince Boudreau
- From the streets to the National Assembly : democratic transition and demands for truth about Kwangju in South Korea / Namhee Lee
- Unsettled state violence in Japan : the Okinawa incident / Hayashi Hirofumi
- Popular views of state violence in China : the Tinanmen incident / Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Kate Merkel-Hess
- Mass atrocities in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge reign of terror / Sorpong Peou
- Counterrevolutionary violence in Indonesia / Douglas Kammen
- Getting away with murder in Thailand : state violence and impunity in Phatthalung / Tyrell Haberkorn
- The end of an illusion : the Mendiola massacre and political transition in post-Marcos Philippines / Rommel A. Curaming
- The four-eights democratic movement and political repression in Myanmar / Kyaw Yin Hlaing
- Conclusion : comparing state violence and reconciliation across East Asia / N. Ganesan and Sung Chull Kim.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780813136806
- 0813136806
- 9780813140612
- 0813140617
- OCLC:
- 826659752
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