Laying Claim to the Memory of May: A Look Back at the 1980 Kwangju Uprising

by Linda Sue Lewis

The Kwangju Uprising--"Korea's Tiananmen"--is one of the most important political events in late twentieth-century Korean history. What began as a peaceful demonstration against the imposition of military rule in the southwestern city of Kwangju in May 1980 turned into a bloody people's revolt. In the two decades since, memories of the Kwangju Uprising have lived on, assuming symbolic importance in the Korean democracy movement, underlying the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824825438
• ISBN13: 9780824825430
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.0"