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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813136792
• ISBN13: 9780813136790
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher