Asia's Unknown Uprisings Volume 2
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Asia's Unknown Uprisings Volume 2

People Power in the Philippines, Burma, Tibet, China, Taiwan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Thailand, and Indonesia, 1947–2009

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Asia's Unknown Uprisings Volume 2

People Power in the Philippines, Burma, Tibet, China, Taiwan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Thailand, and Indonesia, 1947–2009

About this book

Ten years in the making, this magisterial work—the second of a two-volume study—provides a unique perspective on uprisings in nine Asian nations in the past five decades. While the 2011 Arab Spring is well known, the wave of uprisings that swept Asia in the 1980s remain hardly visible. Through a critique of Samuel Huntington's notion of a "Third Wave" of democratization, the author relates Asian uprisings to predecessors in 1968 and shows their subsequent influence on uprisings in Eastern Europe at the end of the 1980s. By empirically reconstructing the specific history of each Asian uprising, significant insight into major constituencies of change and the trajectories of these societies becomes visible.

This book provides detailed histories of uprisings in nine places—the Philippines, Burma, Tibet, China, Taiwan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Thailand, and Indonesia—as well as introductory and concluding chapters that place them in a global context and analyze them in light of major sociological theories. Profusely illustrated with photographs, tables, graphs, and charts, it is the definitive, and defining, work from the eminent participant-observer scholar of social movements.

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Information

Publisher
PM Press
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9781604864885
eBook ISBN
9781604868562
Topic
History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Book Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Tables
  6. List of Charts and Graphs
  7. List of Photographs
  8. List of Abbreviations
  9. Preface
  10. Chapter 1 A World of Uprisings
  11. Chapter 2 The Philippines
  12. Chapter 3 Burma
  13. Chapter 4 Tibet
  14. Chapter 5 China
  15. Chapter 6 Taiwan
  16. Chapter 7 Nepal
  17. Chapter 8 Bangladesh
  18. Chapter 9 Thailand
  19. Chapter 10 Indonesia
  20. Chapter 11 People Power and Its Limits
  21. Chapter 12 The Commune: Freedom’s Phenomenological Form
  22. Chapter 13 Organizations and Movements
  23. Chapter 14 The Changing Face of the Proletariat
  24. Chapter 15 Uprisings in Comparative Perspective
  25. Chapter 16 The System is the Problem
  26. Interviews
  27. Credits
  28. About the Author
  29. Index