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The Making of Minjung : Democracy and the Politics of Representation in South Korea /

"In this intellectual and cultural history of the minjung ("common people's") movement in South Korea, [author] shows how the movement arose in the 1970s and 1980s in response to the repressive authoritarian regime and grew out of a widespread sense that the nation's "f...

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Autor principal: Lee, Namhee (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca [N.Y.] : Cornell University Press, 2007.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"In this intellectual and cultural history of the minjung ("common people's") movement in South Korea, [author] shows how the movement arose in the 1970s and 1980s in response to the repressive authoritarian regime and grew out of a widespread sense that the nation's "failed history" left Korean identity profoundly incomplete. [book title] captures this movement in its many dimensions, presenting its intellectual trajectory as a discourse and its impact as a political movement, as well as raising questions about how intellectuals represented the mingjung."--Jacket
Descripción Física:1 online resource (368 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780801461699