Contentious Kwangju: The May 18th. Uprising in Korea's Past and Present (2003) is a book which came as a result of papers presented in a conference hosted by USC and UCLA's Korean Studies Departments and is edited by Shin Gi-wook and Hwang Kyung-moon.
This book is available on Google Books and therefore you can read it here or purchase here
A really good book which combines analytical, personal retrospectives (part-1) with scholarly explorations of the uprising's aftermath (part-2). A very comprehensive reassessment of the events and the effects available in English (xii).
This book is available on Google Books and therefore you can read it here or purchase here
A really good book which combines analytical, personal retrospectives (part-1) with scholarly explorations of the uprising's aftermath (part-2). A very comprehensive reassessment of the events and the effects available in English (xii).
More on Gwangju (Kwangju) Uprising can be seen on this website here.
Kwangju Incident is also called Gwangju Massacre, 5-18 Gwangju Democratic Movement (5.18 Minjuhwa Undong/민주화 운동), Gwangju uprising,
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