Student Activism in Asia: Between Protest and Powerlessness

by StephanOrtmann (Author), EdwardAspinall (Author), PatricioN.Abinales (Author), Meredith L . Weiss (Author)

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  2012

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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.