TY - BOOK ID - 78340906 TI - Contentious Kwangju : the May 18 uprising in Korea's past and present AU - Shin, Gi-Wook AU - Hwang, Kyung Moon PY - 2003 SN - 1442210370 1283616882 9786613929334 058546670X 9780585466705 9781442210370 0742519619 9780742519619 0742519627 9780742519626 9781283616881 6613929336 PB - Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, DB - UniCat KW - Kwangju Uprising, Kwangju-si, Korea, 1980. KW - Kwangju Incident, Kwangju-si, Korea, 1980 KW - Kwangju Uprising, Korea (South), 1980 KW - Kwangju-si (Korea) KW - History. KW - Kwangju Uprising, Kwangju-si, Korea, 1980 KW - K9180 KW - K9244 KW - K9300.80 KW - Korea: History -- post World War II (1945- ) KW - Korea: Geography and local history -- Chŏlla-namdo, Chŏnra-namdo -- Kwangju KW - Korea: Social sciences -- social and cultural history -- modern period, postwar period (1945- ) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78340906 AB - One of the largest political protests in contemporary Korean history, the May 1980 Kwangju Uprising still exerts a profound, often contested, influence in Korean society. Through a deft combination of personal reflections and academic analysis, Contentious Kwangju offers a comprehensive examination of the multiple, shifting meanings of this seminal event and explains how the memory of Kwangju has affected Korean life from politics to culture. In keeping with the book's title, the essays offer competing interpretations of the Kw ER -