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1. History Textbooks and the Wars in Asia

   Divided Memories

   Edited by Gi-Wook Shin, Daniel C. Sneider

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

   Over the past fifteen years Northeast Asia has witnessed growing intraregional exchanges and interactions, especially in the realms of culture and economy. Still, the region cannot escape from the burden of history. This book examines the formation of historical memory in four Northeast Asian...

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
2. South Korean Social Movements

   From Democracy to Civil Society

   Edited by Gi-Wook Shin, Paul Chang

   Series: Routledge Advances in Korean Studies

   This book explores the evolution of social movements in South Korea by focusing on how they have become institutionalized and diffused in the democratic period. The contributors explore the transformation of Korean social movements from the democracy campaigns of the 1970s and 1980s to the rise of...

   Published May 31st 2011 by Routledge
3. Rethinking Historical Injustice and Reconciliation in Northeast Asia

   The Korean Experience

   Edited by Gi-Wook Shin, Soon-Won Park, Daqing Yang

   Series: Politics in Asia

   Despite witnessing phenomenal economic growth and the spread of democratization in recent decades, as well as impressive intra-regional exchanges and interactions in the economic and cultural spheres, the Northeast Asian region still experience wounds from past wrongs that were committed in times...

   Published April 1st 2008 by Routledge