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Namhee Lee - The Making of Minjung: Democracy and the Politics of Representation in South Korea - 9780801445668 - V9780801445668
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The Making of Minjung: Democracy and the Politics of Representation in South Korea

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Description for The Making of Minjung: Democracy and the Politics of Representation in South Korea hardcover. Num Pages: 368 pages, 11. BIC Classification: 1FPKS; 3JJPL; HBJF; HBLW3; JPHF; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 685.

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 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, ... Read more

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 phenomenon is comparable to better-known 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-known economic 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.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801445668
SKU
V9780801445668
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Namhee Lee
Namhee Lee is Associate Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Reviews for The Making of Minjung: Democracy and the Politics of Representation in South Korea
Lee's books is one of few studies that attempts to analyze the Korean democratic movement from its origins in the early 1970s to its denouement in the 1990s. While most studies focus on the May 1980 Gwangju uprising or the post 1987 democratic transition and consolidation, Lee's book covers the entire period of the movement, Thus, in Lee's book we ... Read more

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