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
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