In May of 1980, what began as a peaceful demonstration against military rule in Kwangju, South Korea turned into a bloody people's revolt. An eyewitness to the Uprising, Lewis (anthropology, Wittenberg U.), draws upon her fieldwork notes from May of 1980 and ethnographic research she conducted in the 1990s to analyze the event's symbolic importance to the Korean democracy movement. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)