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 suppressi...

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Main Author: Chang, Kornel S., 1976- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2025.
Edition:First Belknap Press of Harvard University Press hardcover edition.
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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."--
Physical Description:284 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780674258433
0674258436