The Making of Minjung
Democracy and the Politics of Representation in South Korea



Namhee Lee

Cornell University Press
2007

368 pages, 6 x 9, 11 halftones
ISBN: 978-0-8014-4566-8

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“A tour de force! The Making of Minjung puts the South Korean struggles for democracy and social justice on the world historical stage. An answer to the postcolonial predicament, a movement, and a transformative public sphere, minjung emerges as a remarkable historical constellation. Namhee Lee's is that sort of history of the present that takes us into the future.”—Nancy Abelmann, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

“In The Making of Minjung, which is notable for its evenhandedness, Namhee Lee has given us what will become the standard work on the confluence of political, economic, and social forces underlying South Korea's transition from military dictatorship to a flourishing democracy.”—Donald N. Clark, Trinity University

“The Making of Minjung is a pathbreaking book on an important movement in Korea's contemporary social and political history. It is extremely well researched, full of new insights, and true to the lived realities of student activists and their allies in Korea's democratic development.”—Joseph Wong, University of Toronto

“Richly documented and deftly narrated, Namhee Lee's study of Korea's minjung movement captures one of the most interesting moments of Koreran political and cultural history.”—Hagen Koo, University of Hawaii