Park Chung Hee and Modern Korea: The Roots of Militarism, 1866-1945

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This is a book talk with Carter Eckert, the author of Park Chung Hee and Modern Korea: The Roots of Militarism, 1866-1945

Discussants:
Barak Kushner: Reader in Japanese History, University of Cambridge
Yumi Moon, Associate Professor of History, Stanford University

About the book:
For South Koreans, the twenty years from the early 1960s to late 1970s were the best and worst of times—a period of unprecedented economic growth and of political oppression that deepened as prosperity spread. In this masterly account, Carter J. Eckert finds the roots of South Korea’s dramatic socioeconomic transformation in the country’s long history of militarization—a history personified in South Korea’s paramount leader, Park Chung Hee.

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This event is sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies, APARC Korea Program, Department of History, Stanford Humanities Center, and the FSI Japan Fund.