Gwangju Uprising
Language: en
Pages: 513
Authors: Hwang Sok-yong
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-11-15 - Publisher: Verso Books

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The essential account of the South Korean 1980 pro-democracy rebellion On May 18, 1980, student activists gathered in the South Korean city of Gwangju to protes
South Korean Democracy
Language: en
Pages: 217
Authors: Georgy Katsiaficas
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-20 - Publisher: Routledge

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This new book offers a retrospective appraisal of the Gwangju Uprising by academics, activists and artists from Gwangju, Korea. It analyzes the events of the Gw
Witnessing Gwangju
Language: en
Pages: 226
Authors: Paul Courtright
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-05-01 - Publisher: Hollym

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As a young Peace Corps volunteer, working with leprosy patients in rural South Korea in 1980, Paul Courtright got caught in the middle of a brutal military supp
The Gwangju Uprising
Language: en
Pages: 354
Authors: Chŏng-un Ch'oe
Categories: Korea (South)
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Homa & Sekey Books

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This book explores the implications of the Gwangju Democratic Uprising, which took place in May 1980 when paratroopers brutally broke up a group of protesters w
Human Acts
Language: en
Pages: 208
Authors: Han Kang
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-01-17 - Publisher: Hogarth

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From the internationally bestselling author of The Vegetarian, a “rare and astonishing” (The Observer) portrait of political unrest and the universal strugg