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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797751403321

Titolo

State violence in East Asia / / edited by N. Ganesan and Sung Chull Kim

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : University Press of Kentucky, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

0-8131-3680-6

0-8131-4061-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (0 p.)

Collana

Asia in the New Millennium

Disciplina

322.4/2095

Soggetti

Political violence - East Asia

Political violence - Southeast Asia

State-sponsored terrorism - East Asia

State-sponsored terrorism - Southeast Asia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.