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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Kim, Charles R., 1974- author.     Subjects     Youth protest movements -- Korea (South) -- History.     Korea (South) -- Civilization -- American influences.     Korea (South) -- History -- 1948-1960.     Korea (South) -- Politics and government -- 1948-1960.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Kim, Charles R., 1974- author.       by title:      Youth for nation : c...         MARC Display

Youth for nation : culture and protest in Cold War South Korea / Charles R. Kim. by Kim, Charles R., 1974- author. Honolulu, Hawai'i : University of Hawai'i Press, [2017] Subjects Youth protest movements -- Korea (South) -- History.   Korea (South) -- Civilization -- American influences.   Korea (South) -- History -- 1948-1960.   Korea (South) -- Politics and government -- 1948-1960. ISBN:  9780824855949 (hardcover) : 0824855949 (hardcover) Series:  Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. Description:  xi, 264 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm. Requests:  0 Summary:  "This in-depth exploration of culture, media, and protest follows South Korea's transition from the Korean War to the political struggles and socioeconomic transformations of the Park Chung Hee era. Although the post-Korean War years are commonly remembered as a time of crisis and disarray, Charles Kim contends that they also created a formative and productive juncture in which South Koreans reworked pre-1945 constructions of national identity to meet the political and cultural needs of postcolonial nation-building. He explores how state ideologues and mainstream intellectuals expanded their efforts by elevating the nation's youth as the core protagonist of a newly independent Korea. By designating students and young men and women as the hope and exemplars of the new nation-state, the discursive stage was set for the remarkable outburst of the April Revolution in 1960"--Publisher's website   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 322.40951 Ki Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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