A fractured liberation Korea under US occupation
"After liberation in 1945, Koreans erupted with hopes for reform that had been bottled up during forty years of Japanese imperial rule. Arguing that permanent North-South division was far from inevitable, Kornel Chang explores the movement for a unified Korean social democracy and its suppression by...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England :
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2025.
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| Edition: | First Belknap Press of Harvard University Press hardcover edition. |
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| Summary: | "After liberation in 1945, Koreans erupted with hopes for reform that had been bottled up during forty years of Japanese imperial rule. Arguing that permanent North-South division was far from inevitable, Kornel Chang explores the movement for a unified Korean social democracy and its suppression by anticommunist US military authorities."-- |
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| Physical Description: | 284 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780674258433 0674258436 |
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