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Voices from Cheju (Jeju): Towards an Archipelagic Imagination

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

Leo T. S. Ching  and
Hyesong Lim
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Abstract

The essay profiles five artists and activists from Cheju Island and narrates their work and commitment to keeping the legacies of the victims of the infamous Cheju 4.3 Incident alive in public discourse. Their activism, embedded in local history and memory, is potentially transnational and archipelagic, inter-referencing and resonating with similar atrocities and related politics of memory and redress in Taiwan's 2.28 Incident as well as the Battle of Okinawa. Together, each use their own methods and experienced to negotiate and resist nationalist historical revision and capitalist speculation, whose acts erase the voices of the dead.

Keywords

Cheju 4.3 Incidentartists/activismCold Wardecolonizationpersonal narrativesthe archipelagic
Type
Research Article
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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 21 , Issue 7 , July 2023 , e2
Copyright
Copyright © The Authors 2023

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