Nonviolence in Asia
Subtitle: the art of dying or a road to change?
By: edited by Katrin Goldstein-Kyaga
Publisher: Center for Pacific Asia Studies, Stockholm University
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Stockholm
Language: eng
Number of pages: 76
Subjects: Nonviolence; Passive resistance; Ahiṃsā
Description: Examines the roots of the nonviolence movements of India, Tibet, East Timor and China and analyses their prospects.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Katrin Goldstein-Kyaga; title: Ahimsa: old concept, modern strategy for struggle / Bo Kage Carlson; title: Nonviolence as ethnic identity among Tibetans / Katrin Goldstein-Kyaga; title: Learning the art of dying: the promise and the limits of nonviolence in Burma and East Timor / Geoffrey Robinson; title: Political opposition, violence and nonviolence in twentieth-century China / Marina Svensson.