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Summary:

"After liberation in 1945, Koreans erupted with hopes for reform that had been bottled up during forty years of Japanese imperial rule. Arguing that permanent North-South division was far from inevitable, Kornel Chang explores the movement for a unified Korean social democracy and its suppression by anticommunist US military authorities."-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Prologue : A Family Debate
• Introduction: Korea's Asian Spring
• Pursuing Liberation
• Fractures Appear
• The Race to Korea
• Reversing the Tide
• False Starts and Missed Opportunities
• Rising Up
• Taking a Shot at the Middle
• Searching for a Way Out
• Fighting over Separate Elections
• Strongman Rising
• Conclusion: Paths Not Taken.

Author/Creator:

Chang, Kornel S., 1976- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

A fractured liberation: Korea under US occupation [by Chang, K.S.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Fractured liberation [by Chang, K.S.] (First Belknap Press of Harvard University Press hardcover edition; Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2025 — ISBN 9780674258433; LCCN 2024008850; OCLC Number 1435631801)

Subjects:

Korean reunification question (1945- )

Korea — History — Allied occupation, 1945-1948

Korea — Politics and government — 1945-1948

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (284 pages) : illustrations, maps

Call Numbers:

DS917.52 .C428 2025eb

ISBNs:

9780674299474 (electronic bk.)
0674299477 (electronic bk.)
9780674258433 [Invalid]
0674258436 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1506746073