Detention Camps in Asia: The Conditions of Confinement in Modern Asian History (Social Sciences in Asia, 41)

Detention camps in Asia have held hundreds of thousands of people – political dissidents, prisoners of war, and civilian populations. This volume examines why states detain, the conditions of detention, and the effects of detention systems on society as a whole. Contents List of Figures and Maps Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Chapter 1 Detention in Camps in Asia: An Overview Part 1 Counterinsurgency Chapter 1 Reconcentration and the Camp System: The Legacy of the Philippine-American War Chapter 2 Detention in Malaya, 1948–1960: Spatial Segregation and Reintegration Techniques Part 2 Isolating Public Enemies Chapter 4 An Experiment with the Island Detention of Public Enemies in Postcolonial Burma Chapter 5 Arbitrary Detention in Indonesia: Buru Prison Island, 1969–1979 Chapter 6 Displacement and Detention on Ataúro Island During the Indonesian Occupation of East Timor Part 3 Torture and Re-Education Chapter 7 Detention Camps and the Order to Annihilate During the 1965–1966 Indonesian Genocide Chapter 8 Torture Camps in Indonesia, 1965–1970 Chapter 9 Vietnam’s Re-Education Camps after 1975: Narratives of Detainees Chapter 10 China’s Re-Education Camps in Xinjiang: Curing the Disease or Killing the Patient? Part 4 Managing Camps Chapter 11 Detention Camps in the Japanese Empire, 1941–1945 Chapter 12 Tan Toey Prisoner of War Camp: The Dilemmas of Command Chapter 13 Captivity on the Home Front: Allied Prisoners of War in Fukuoka during the Second World War Chapter 14 Gender and Politics in the U.S. Army’s Detention of Female Prisoners of War during the Korean Conflict Chapter 15 Seeking Refuge Amid Suffering in Indonesia’s Galang Vietnamese Refugee Camp Index "Why have Asian states - colonial and independent - imprisoned people on a massive scale in detention camps? How have detainees experienced the long months and years of captivity? And what does the creation of camps and the segregation of people in them mean for society as a whole? This ambitious book surveys the systems of detention camps set up in Asia from the beginning of the 20th century in The Philippines, Indonesia, Japan, Malaya, Myanmar (Burma), Vietnam, Timor, Korea and China"-- ǂc Provided by publisher