After the Korean War - An Intimate History

The first comprehensive analysis of the Korean War and its enduring legacies through the lenses of intimate human and social experience.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Massacres in Korea; 2. Bad gemeinschaft; 3. Peace in the feud; 4. Guilt by association; 5. Morality and ideology; 6. The quiet revolution; Conclusion.

About the author

Heonik Kwon is Senior Research Fellow in Social Science and Professor of Anthropology at Trinity College, Cambridge. He is the author of The Other Cold War (Cambridge, 2010), Ghosts of War in Vietnam (Cambridge, 2008) and After the Massacre: Commemoration and Consolation in Ha My and My Lai (2006).

Summary

This ground-breaking study investigates the history and legacy of the Korean War within the realm of intimate human social experience. In doing so, it boldly reclaims kinship as a vital category in historical and political enquiry and examines how Korea's civil war memories remain present in the Korean consciousness.

Product details

• Authors: Heonik Kwon, Heonik (University of Cambridge) Kwon, Kwon Heonik
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781108487924
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48792-4
• No. of pages: 246
• Series: Studies in the Social and Cult; Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Korea, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, HISTORY / Asia / General, Social & cultural history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, Asian History, Korean War