The Making of Minjung: Democracy and the Politics of Representation in South Korea

by Namhee Lee

Book Overview

In 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801475732
• ISBN13: 9780801475733
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher