Acknowledgments vii
Preface ix
Theodore Jun Yoo
Introduction: What Is South Korea? xiii
John Lie
PART I: LIBERATION AND THE POLITICS OF THE PEOPLE
1. The State as Betrayal and People as Refugees: The Politics of Return 3
Yerim Kim
2. Street Politics and the Production of Representations 15
Cheon Junghwan
3. Days and Nights of Taking up Arms: Guns, Young Men, and Liberation 40
Hyeryoung Lee
PART II: THE COLD WAR’S HOT WAR: CONFLICT, RECONSTRUCTION, AND FREEDOM
4. The State as God: North and South Korean Occupation and Mobilization Policies During the Korean War 67
Kim Dong-choon
5. Morals and Liberal Democracy After the Korean War 92
Lee Bong-beom
6. Traveling in Asia: The (Im)possibility of Intraregional Traffic 106
Chang Se-jin
PART III: ARTICULATIONS OF RESISTANCE AND NETWORKS
7. The Intellectual Landscape of 1964: Anti-communism, Nationalism, Democracy, Liberalism, and Developmentalism 131
Kim Kun Woo
8. The April Revolution and the May Coup: The Topos of Liberty and Bread 149
Boduerae Kwon
PART IV: BODY, SPACE, AND AFFECTIVE DEMOCRACY
9. The April Uprising of the “Youth Generation” and the Rituals of Resistance 177
Kim Miran
10. A Spatial Sociology of the April 19 Uprising and May 16 Coup 192
Kim Baek Yung
11. Those Deprived in 1971: The Housing Protests 217
Kim Won
PART V: FROM DECADENCE TO REVOLT: FISSURES IN THE STATE
12. Hostess Movies and the Hypernationalization Project of the Mobilization Regime 241
Yoo Sun Young
13. The Boom in Nonelite Writings and the Expansion of the Literary Field 258
Kim Sunghwan
14. Counter-Violence and Anti-Violence: The May 18 Armed Struggle and Social Movements of the 1980s 272
Kim Jung Han
Afterword 293
Bruce Cumings
Contributors 297
Chronology 299
Index 31
