Table of contents : Contents Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration and Translation Introduction PART I. Kwangju, 1980: A Narrative Account 5.18 Begins The “Righteous” Rebellion Democracy in Action Popular Hopes Crushed “Kwangju Continues” PART II. City of Light/ City of Outlaws Truth Telling in the Fifth Republic PART III. Commemorating Kwangju Kwangju in the 1990s The Construction 0f Memory And the 5.18 Movement Making Martyrs and Patriotic Heroes The Uprising as Civic Asset What Is the “Kwangju Spirit”? Remembering Kwangju in Post-Minjung Korea Notes Bibliography Index