The Promised Republic by Russell Burge
In The Promised Republic, Russell Burge offers a bold new history of South Korea’s rapid development. By focusing on the experience of rural-to-urban migrants who built and lived in Seoul’s shantytowns, Burge historicizes national development as a site of struggle with the urban poor at its center. What would a society of postcolonial abundance look like? Who was this society built for, and how would access to the city that formed its economic center be claimed and defended? These were the questions at stake in the urban struggles of the 1960s and 1970s, an era when authorities found themselves caught between a mandate to create well-disciplined cities and the promise of broad uplift that legitimated their leadership. Utilizing memoirs, interviews, newspapers, journals, photographs, literature, anthropological records, and critical as well as official sources, Burge reconstructs a not-altogether-vanished world and provides historical background of conflicts over urban access and inequality that continue to enrage and resonate to this day.-
An Introduction to Literary Chinese
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Hideyoshi
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Disciplining the State
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The Tokyo War Crimes Trial
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Islands of Eight Million Smiles
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The Late Tang
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Neo-Confucianism in History
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Rethinking the 1898 Reform Period
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House and Home in Modern Japan
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Writing Technology in Meiji Japan
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The Silver Thread of the Deep
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Earthquake Children
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War and National Reinvention
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Deliverance and Submission
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Defining Engagement
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Dead Letters
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Constructing Korean Origins
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Harnessing Divinity
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Word Embodied
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The Evolution of Labor Relations in Japan
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China during the Great Depression
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Robert Hart and Chinas Early Modernization
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Body, Society, and Nation
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The Dao of Muhammad
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The Efficacious Landscape
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A Patterned Past
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Jewel in the Ashes
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Breaking Barriers
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Colonial Industrialization and Labor in Korea
Russell Burge is Korea Foundation Assistant Professor of Korean History at Indiana University Bloomington.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780674304819 |
| ISBN 10 | 0674304810 |
| Title | The Promised Republic |
| Author | Russell Burge |
| Series | Harvard East Asian Monographs |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press |
| Year published | 2026-06-02 |
| Number of pages | 360 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |