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A fractured liberation : Korea under US occupation / Kornel Chang.
Van Pelt Library DS917.52 .C428 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chang, Kornel, 1976- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Korean reunification question (1945- ).
- Korea--History--Allied occupation, 1945-1948.
- Korea.
- Korea--Politics and government--1945-1948.
- Physical Description:
- 284 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First Belknap Press of Harvard University Press hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The Belknap Press of 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."-- Provided by publisher.
- 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:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674258433
- 0674258436
- OCLC:
- 1435631801
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