[KS] U.S. involvement in the Gwangju Uprising

Brother Anthony ansonjae at sogang.ac.kr
Thu Nov 24 01:39:09 EST 2011


The student should obviously start by reading and questioning the official US version contained in the US government's lengthy statement available at http://seoul.usembassy.gov/backgrounder.html 

there's a lot there to mull over

then there might be something in

Kwangju Diary: Beyond Death, Beyond the Darkness of the Age 
by Lee Jai-eui, translated from the Korean by Kap Su Seol and Nick Mamatas 
UCLA Asian Pacific Monograph Series, 172 pp., $14.95 (paper)                                                   

(Bruce Cumings has written something there)

The Kwangju Uprising: Eyewitness Press Accounts of Korea?s Tiananmen 
edited by Henry Scott-Stokes and Lee Jai-eui, with a foreword by President Kim Dae-jung 
M.E. Sharpe, 239 pp., $37.50; $10.95 (paper)

the fullest online bibliography would probably be Matt's:

http://populargusts.blogspot.com/2006/05/bibliography-of-kwangju-uprising-in.html 

but it dates from 2006. perhaps ask him if he knows anything more recent,

And there are the publications of the May 18 Memorial Foundation  http://eng.518.org/eng/html/main.html?TM18MF=04010000 

What else might there be? Lots, I hope

Br Anthony
Sogang University, Seoul




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