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Laying Claim to the Memory of May: A Look Back at the 1980 Kwangju Uprising (Hawaii Studies on Korea)
Laying Claim to the Memory of May A Look Back at the 1980 Kwangju Uprising - Hawaii Studies on Korea
Author: Linda S. Lewis, Linda Sue Lewis
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 people's revolt. In the two decades since, memories of the Kwangju U...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780824825430
ISBN-10: 0824825438
Publication Date: 3/1/2002
Pages: 189
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Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Book Type: Paperback
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