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Nonviolence in Asia : the art of dying or a road to change? / edited by Katrin Goldstein-Kyaga.

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Nonviolence in Asia : the art of dying or a road to change? / edited by Katrin Goldstein-Kyaga.
Publication
Stockholm : Center for Pacific Asia Studies, Stockholm University, 1999.

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Additional Authors
  • Goldstein-Kyaga, Katrin.
  • Carlson, Bo Kage, 1939-
  • Robinson, Geoffrey, 1957-
  • Svensson, Marina.
  • Stockholms universitet. Centrum för stillahavsasienstudier.
Description
76 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Summary
Examines the roots of the nonviolence movements of India, Tibet, East Timor and China and analyses their prospects.
Subject
  • Nonviolence > Timor Timur
  • Nonviolence > Asia
  • Passive resistance > Asia
  • Nonviolence > Tibet Autonomous Region
  • Nonviolence > India
  • Nonviolence > Burma
  • Nonviolence > China
  • Ahiṃsā
  • Nonviolence > Timor-Leste
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction / Katrin Goldstein-Kyaga -- Ahimsa: old concept, modern strategy for struggle / Bo Kage Carlson -- Nonviolence as ethnic identity among Tibetans / Katrin Goldstein-Kyaga -- Learning the art of dying: the promise and the limits of nonviolence in Burma and East Timor / Geoffrey Robinson -- Political opposition, violence and nonviolence in twentieth-century China / Marina Svensson.
ISBN
9197360406
OCLC
41443087
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library