Since World War II, students in East and Southeast Asia have led
protest movements that toppled authoritarian regimes in countries
such as Indonesia, South Korea, and Thailand. Elsewhere in the
region, student protests have shaken regimes until they were
brutally suppressed-most famously in China's Tiananmen Square and
in Burma. But despite their significance, these movements have
received only a fraction of the notice that has been given to
American and European student protests of the 1960s and 1970s. The
first book in decades to redress this neglect, Student Activism in
Asia tells the story of student protest movements across Asia.
Taking an interdisciplinary, comparative approach, the contributors
examine ten countries, focusing on those where student protests
have been particularly fierce and consequential: China, Japan, Hong
Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Indonesia, Burma, Malaysia, Thailand,
and the Philippines. They explore similarities and differences
among student movements in these countries, paying special
attention to the influence of four factors: higher education
systems, students' collective identities, students' relationships
with ruling regimes, and transnational flows of activist ideas and
inspirations. The authors include leading specialists on student
activism in each of the countries investigated. Together, these
experts provide a rich picture of an important tradition of
political protest that has ebbed and flowed but has left indelible
marks on Asia's sociopolitical landscape. Contributors: Patricio N.
Abinales, U of Hawaii, Manoa; Prajak Kongkirati, Thammasat U,
Thailand; Win Min, Vahu Development Institute; Stephan Ortmann,
City U of Hong Kong; Mi Park, Dalhousie U, Canada; Patricia G.
Steinhoff, U of Hawaii, Manoa; Mark R. Thompson, City U of Hong
Kong; Teresa Wright, California State U, Long Beach.
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