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