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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
(Excerpt from amazon.com)
我們正生活於民主的時代，而甚麼是民主？民主生活的含義是甚麼？今天民主對我們來說意味著甚麼？本書將針對這些問題探究具有可行性之不同的民主模式，思索懸而未決的議題，以及當代民主進行思考的若干替換方式。本書更針對原著中擱置的問題，收錄兩篇作者重要的新論文，完整地呈現民主在民族間與國家間的意涵和互動關係。本書更針對原著中擱置的問題，收錄兩篇作者重要的新論文，完整地呈現民主在民族間與國家間的意涵和互動關係。
本書內容包括從學潮到大學問題的總檢討、全港專上學生罷休組織法的商榷、專上學生組織的經濟背景、評介專上學生組織的活動、左派在專上學院的活動等內容。
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