Change and Continuity in North Korean Politics

Herausgeber: Cathcart, Adam; Winstanley-Chesters, Robert; Green, Christopher K.

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the stable and shifting political, cultural and economic landscapes of North Korea in the era of Kim Jong-un. The contributors deploy a variety of methodologies focused on the content, narratives and discourses of politics under Kim Jong-un, tracing its historical roots and contemporary practical and conceptual manifestations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 425g
• ISBN-13: 9781138681682
• ISBN-10: 1138681687
• Artikelnr.: 47175595

Autorenporträt

Adam Cathcart is lecturer in Chinese history at the University of Leeds, UK. He is the editor of the Sino-NK research website, and of the Papers of the British Association of Korean Studies. Robert Winstanley-Chesters is a Research Fellow of Australian National University. He is the author of Environment, Politics and Ideology in North Korea: Landscape as Political Project (2014). Christopher Green is a researcher in Korean Studies at Leiden University, Netherlands. He is the former international affairs manager of Daily NK in Seoul and translator of the memoir of senior North Korean defector Hwang Jang-yop.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Kim Jong-un Syndrome: North Korean Commemorative Culture and the
Succession Process
2. Wrapped in a Fog: On the DPRK Constitution and the Ten Principles
3. Family Tradition: Modern Representation and the Ideal Woman in Kim
Jong-un's First Year
4. Kim Jong-un and the Practice of Songun Politics
5. Politics and Pollack: Maritime Developmental Paradigms under the Kims
6. 1967: The Transition to Absolute Autocracy in North Korea
7. Pockets of Efficiency: An Institutional Approach to Economic Reform and
Development in North Korea
8. A Hagiography of the Kims & The Childhood of Saints: Kim Jong-il
9. Treasured Swords: Sepho and Environment under the Byungjin Line