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The Making of Minjung: Democracy and the Politics of Representation in South Korea by Namhee Lee (Hardback, 2007)
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- DescriptionIn this sweeping intellectual and cultural history of the minjung ( common people's ) movement in South Korea, Namhee Lee shows how the movement arose in the 1970s and 1980s in response to the repressive authoritarian regime and grew out of a widespread sense that the nation's failed history left Korean identity profoundly incomplete. The Making of Minjung captures the movement in its many dimensions, presenting its intellectual trajectory as a discourse and its impact as a political movement, as well as raising questions about how intellectuals represented the minjung. Lee's portrait is based on a wide range of sources: underground pamphlets, diaries, court documents, contemporary newspaper reports, and interviews with participants. Thousands of students and intellectuals left universities during this period and became factory workers, forging an intellectual-labor alliance perhaps unique in world history. At the same time, minjung cultural activists reinvigorated traditional folk theater, created a new minjung literature, and influenced religious practices and academic disciplines. In its transformative scope, the minjung phemen is comparable to better-kwn contemporaneous movements in South Africa, Latin America, and Eastern Europe. Understanding the minjung movement is essential to understanding South Korea's recent resistance to U.S. influence. Along with its well-kwn ecomic transformation, South Korea has also had a profound social and political transformation. The minjung movement drove this transformation, and this book tells its story comprehensively and critically.
Key Features
- Author(s)Namhee Lee
- PublisherCornell University Press
- Date of Publication18/10/2007
- LanguageEnglish
- FormatHardback
- ISBN-100801445663
- ISBN-139780801445668
- SubjectRegional History
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- Place of PublicationIthaca
- Country of PublicationUnited States
- ImprintCornell University Press
- Content Note11
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- Weight685 g
- Width152 mm
- Height229 mm
- Spine28 mm
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