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<p class="MsoNormal">To Whom It May Concern:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:KO">Please post the following to the mailing list. Thank you! Dongyoun Hwang<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Publication of Kim San and Nym Wales (edited and annotated by George O. Totten III and Dongyoun Hwang),
<i>Song of Arirang: The Life of A Korean Revolutionary in China</i> (Los Angeles: Kaya Press, 2024)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<a name="_59c47ola27e1"></a><span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:116%;font-weight:normal">An intimate telling of the life and times of Korean revolutionary Kim San.<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:155%;color:#333333">First published in 1941 and long unavailable,
<i>Song of Arirang</i> tells the true story of Korean revolutionary Kim San (Jang Jirak), who left colonized Korea as a teenager to fight against Japanese imperialism and fought alongside Mao's Red Army during the Chinese Revolution. This remarkably intimate
memoir (as told to the American journalist Nym Wales, aka Helen Foster Snow) brings to vivid life some of the most dramatic events of the period.</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:155%;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:155%;color:#333333">With its first-hand account of early 20th-century guerilla insurgency and radical cross-pollination, this rare, behind-the-scenes look into what Wales describes as "the psyche of a dedicated and
thoughtful revolutionary" gives voice to the brutality, betrayal and alliances that rocked East Asia at the beginning of the last century and continue to shape the region—and the world—today. Kaya's edition of
<i>Song of Arirang</i> includes the writings (both literary and in essay form) of Kim San himself, translated into English for the first time ever, as well as contextualizing notes by George Totten and Dongyoun Hwang, and a new forward by Arif Dirlik.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none">_________________________<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none">Dongyoun Hwang, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none">Professor of Asian Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none">Soka University of America<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none">Aliso Viejo, CA 92656<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none">U.S.A.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none">Tel: 949-480-4031<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none">Fax: 949-480-4264<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:dhwang@soka.edu"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none">dhwang@soka.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none">
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