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No Concessions

The Life of Yap Thiam Hien, Indonesian Human Rights Lawyer

No Concessions( )
Author: Lev, Daniel S.
Introduction by: Anderson, Benedict
Series title:Critical Dialogues in Southeast Asian Studies
ISBN:978-0-295-99336-2
Publication Date:Nov 2013
Publisher:University of Washington Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $25.00USD $32.00
Book Description:

The compelling personal story of human rights lawyer Yap Thiam Hien (1913-1989) brings decades of modern Indonesian history to life. No Concessions is a penetrating analysis of the trajectory of the Chinese minority in Indonesia over close to a century and the remarkable making of a civic leader. Without abandoning his ethnic roots, Yap transcended them by becoming a courageous legal defender of civil and human rights of all oppressed Indonesians, including former communists...
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Author Biography
Lev, Daniel S. (Author)
Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson was born in Kunming, China on August 26, 1936. He received a degree in classics from Cambridge University in 1957 and a Ph.D. in government from Cornell University in 1967. He taught at Cornell University until his retirement, as an emeritus professor of international studies, in 2002. His best-known book, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, was first published in 1983. He died of heart failure on December 12, 2015 at the age of 79.

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