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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| 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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Table of Contents:
- Prologue : A Family Debate
- Introduction: Korea's Asian Spring
- Pursuing Liberation
- Fractures Appear
- The Race to Korea
- Reversing the Tide
- False Starts and Missed Opportunities
- Rising Up
- Taking a Shot at the Middle
- Searching for a Way Out
- Fighting over Separate Elections
- Strongman Rising
- Conclusion: Paths Not Taken.
