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Publication of Kim San and Nym Wales (edited and annotated by George O. Totten III and Dongyoun Hwang), Song of Arirang: The Life of A Korean Revolutionary in China (Los Angeles: Kaya Press, 2024)

An intimate telling of the life and times of Korean revolutionary Kim San.
First published in 1941 and long unavailable, Song of Arirang 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.
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 Song of Arirang 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.
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Dongyoun Hwang, Ph.D.
Professor of Asian Studies
Soka University of America
1 University Dr.
Aliso Viejo, CA 92656
U.S.A.

Tel: 949-480-4031
Fax: 949-480-4264
dhwang at soka.edu<mailto:dhwang at soka.edu>

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