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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Main Author: Chang, Kornel, 1976- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2025.
Edition:First Belknap Press of Harvard University Press hardcover edition.
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