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A Fractured Liberation : Korea under US Occupation.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chang, Kornel.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Korean reunification question (1945- ).
- Korea--History--Allied occupation, 1945-1948.
- Korea.
- Korea--Politics and government--1945-1948.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (299 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- 2025.
- Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2025.
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-674-29946-9
- 0-674-29947-7
- OCLC:
- 1509374095
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