Download or read book Detention Camps in Asia written by Robert Cribb and published by Social Sciences in Asia. This book was released on 2022 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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"--