A Fractured Liberation: Korea Under Us Occupation

by Kornel Chang

A poignant return to Korea's forgotten "Asian Spring"--a moment ripe with possibility denied by the postwar US military occupation.

When Japanese imperial rule ended in August 1945, the Korean peninsula erupted with hopes that had been bottled up for forty years. New mother Chŏn Sukhŭi marveled at the news, envisioning her son growing up free in an independent Korea. Yi Ilchae, who only days before had been drafted into...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674258436
• ISBN13: 9780674258433
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 304 Pages