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Summary:

During the founding of North Korea, competing visions of an ideal modern state proliferated. Independence and democracy were touted by all, but plans for the future of North Korea differed in their ideas about how everyday life should be organized. Daily life came under scrutiny as the primary arena for social change in public and private life. Kim examines the revolutionary events that shaped people's lives in the development of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. By shifting the historical focus from the state and the Great Leader to how villagers experienced social revolution, Kim offers new insights into why North Korea insists on setting its own course.

Table of Contents:

• Revolutions in the everyday
• Legacies : fomenting the revolution
• Three reforms : initiating the revolution
• The collective : enacting the revolution
• Autobiographies : narrating the revolution
• Revolutionary motherhood : gendering the revolution
• "Liberated space" : remembering the revolution.

Author/Creator:

Kim, Suzy, 1972- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Everyday life in the North Korean revolution, 1945-1950 [by Kim, S.]

Subjects:

Revolutions — Social aspects — Korea (North) — History — 20th century

Korea (North) — History — 20th century

Korea (North) — Social life and customs — 20th century

1900-1999

Revolutions

Manners and customs

Revolutions — Social aspects

Korea (North)

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-301) and index.

Physical Description:

xiii, 307 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Physical Characteristics:

map; illustration

Call Numbers:

DS935.55 .K567 2016

ISBNs:

9781501705687 (paperback)
1501705687 (paperback)

OCLC Numbers:

950929415