State Violence in East Asia - Hardcover

by N. Ganesan (Editor), Sung Chull Kim (Editor)

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 Biography

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.