Laying claim to the memory of May : a look back at the 1980 Kwangju Uprising /
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 peop...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press : Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawaiʻi,
©2002.
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Colección: | Hawaiʻi studies on Korea.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I Kwangju, 1980: A Narrative Account
- 5.18 Begins: Violence and Confusion on the City's Streets
- "Righteous" Rebellion: Citizens Fight Back
- Democracy in Action: The Days of "Free Kwangju"
- Popular Hopes Crushed: The Army Retakes the City
- "Kwangju Continues": The Summer of 1980 and Beyond
- pt. II City of Light/City of Outlaws
- Truth Telling in the Fifth Republic
- pt. III Commemorating Kwangju: From Lamentation To Celebration
- Kwangju in the 1990s
- Construction of Memory and the 5.18 Movement: An Overview
- Making Martyrs and Patriotic Heroes: Direct Victims' Groups and the Legitimation of 5.18
- Uprising as Civic Asset: New Citizens' Groups and the Reimaging of Kwangju
- What Is the "Kwangju Spirit"?
- Remembering Kwangju in Post-Minjung Korea.