Charles K. Armstrong (ed.)

Korean Society

Civil Society, Democracy and the State
Herausgeber: Armstrong, Charles K

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Conceptually innovative, up-to-date and timely, the new edition of this successful text examines Korea as one of the most dramatic cases in the world of ordinary citizens participating in the transformation of politics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9780415770576
• ISBN-10: 0415770572
• Artikelnr.: 22192715

Autorenporträt

Charles K. Armstrong is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center for Korean Research at Columbia University, New York.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction to the Second Edition 1. Civil Society in West and East 2. The
Problematic Modernity of Confucianism: "Civil Society" in Choson Korea 3.
Civil Society and Democratization in South Korea 4. Engendering Civil
Society: The Role of the Labor Movement 5. The South Korean Student
Movement: Undongkwon as Counterpublic Sphere 6. Women and Civil Society in
South Korea 7. Commemorating Kwangju: The 5.18 Movement and Civil Society
in the Late 1990s 8. Protestant Christianity and the State 9. Beyond the
DMZ: The Possibility of Civil Society in North Korea