State Violence in East Asia

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

Author: N. Ganesan
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 02/22/2013
Pages: 308
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780813136790

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.

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