State Violence in East Asia.

Intro -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Note on Romanization -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Conceiving State Violence, Justice, and Transition in East Asia -- 1. Interpreting State Violence in Asian Settings -- 2. From the Streets to the National Assembly: Democratic Transition and Demands for Truth about Kwangju in South Korea -- 3. Unsettled State Violence in Japan: The Okinawa Incident -- 4. Popular Views of State Violence in China: The Tiananmen Incident -- 5. Mass Atrocities in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge Reign of Terror -- 6. Counterrevolutionary Violence in Indonesia -- 7. Getting Away with Murder in Thailand: State Violence and Impunity in Phatthalung -- 8. The End of an Illusion: The Mendiola Massacre and Political Transition in Post-Marcos Philippines -- 9. The Four-Eights Democratic Movement and Political Repression in Myanmar -- Conclusion: Comparing State Violence and Reconciliation across East Asia -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Index.

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.

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