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Gwangju Uprising - The Rebellion for Democracy in South Korea (Paperback)
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Gwangju Uprising - The Rebellion for Democracy in South Korea (Paperback)
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On 18th May 1980, student activists gathered in the South Korean
city of Gwangju to protest the coup d'etat and martial law
government of General Chun Doo-hwan. The security forces responded
with unmitigated violence, and over the next ten days hundreds of
students, activists and citizens were arrested, tortured and
murdered. The events of the uprising shaped over a decade of
resistance to the repressive South Korean regime, and paved the way
for the country's democratisation in the 1990s. The subject of
right-wing conspiracy and controversy in South Korea, the texts of
Gwangju Uprising survived in underground circulation and were
recently republished. This fresh translation by Slin Jung of the
original text, compiled from eye-witness testimonies, forms a
gripping and full account of both the events of the uprising and
the political situation which preceded and followed the violence of
those days. The edition contains a preface by Hwang Sok-yong,
material which situates the uprising in its longer-term local and
international context. The resulting volume is an unrivalled
account of the movement for democracy and freedom in South Korea in
the tumultuous period of the 1980s dictatorship. A vital collection
for those interested in East Asian contemporary history and the
global struggle for democracy.
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