Laying Claim to the Memory of May : : A Look Back at the 1980 Kwangju Uprising / / Linda S. Lewis.
The Kwangju Uprising--"Korea's Tiananmen"--is one of the most important political events in late twentieth-century Korean history. What began as a peaceful demonstration against the imposition of military rule in the southwestern city of Kwangju in May 1980 turned into a bloody people...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2002] ©2002 |
| Year of Publication: | 2002 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Hawai'i Studies on Korea
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Transliteration and Translation
- Introduction
- PART I. Kwangju, 1980: A Narrative Account
- 5.18 Begins
- The "Righteous" Rebellion
- Democracy in Action
- Popular Hopes Crushed
- "Kwangju Continues"
- PART II. City of Light/ City of Outlaws
- Truth Telling in the Fifth Republic
- PART III. Commemorating Kwangju
- Kwangju in the 1990s
- The Construction 0f Memory And the 5.18 Movement
- Making Martyrs and Patriotic Heroes
- The Uprising as Civic Asset
- What Is the "Kwangju Spirit"?
- Remembering Kwangju in Post-Minjung Korea
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index