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UNINA9910821643903321 |
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Autore |
Fahy Sandra |
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Titolo |
Marching through suffering : loss and survival in North Korea / / Sandra Fahy |
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New York : , : Columbia University Press, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (267 p.) |
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Collana |
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Contemporary Asia in the World |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Refugees - Korea (North) |
Refugees - Korea (North) - Attitudes |
Victims of famine - Korea (North) |
Famines - Korea (North) |
Human rights - Korea (North) |
Korea (North) Social conditions |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- CONTENTS -- Note on Translation, Confidentiality, Terms, and Romanization -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Loss and Survival -- 1. The Busy Years -- 2. Cohesion and Disintegration -- 3. The Life of Words -- 4. Life Leaves Death Behind -- 5. Breaking Points -- 6. The New Division -- Conclusion: Is Past Prologue? -- Appendix: A Short History of the North Korean Famine -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Marching Through Suffering is a deeply personal portrait of the ravages of famine and totalitarian politics in modern North Korea since the 1990's. Featuring interviews with more than thirty North Koreans who defected to Seoul and Tokyo, the book explores the subjective experience of the nation's famine and its citizens' social and psychological strategies for coping with the regime. These oral testimonies show how ordinary North Koreans, from farmers and soldiers to students and diplomats, framed the mounting struggles and deaths surrounding them as the famine progressed. Following the development of the disaster, North Koreans deployed complex |
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