Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors.
North Korea is one of the most troubled societies on earth. The country's 24 million people live under a violent dictatorship led by a single family, which relentlessly pursues the development of nuclear arms, which periodically incites risky military clashes with the larger, richer, liberal South, and which forces each and every person to play a role in the "theater state" even as it pays little more than lip service to the wellbeing of the overwhelming majority.
With this deeply anachronistic system eventually failed in the 1990s, it triggered a famine that decimated the countryside and obliterated the lives of many hundreds of thousands of people. However, it also changed life forever for those who survived.
A lawless form of marketization came to replace the iron rice bowl of work in state companies, and the Orwellian mind control of the Korean Workers' Party was replaced for many by dreams of trade and profit. A new North Korea Society was born from the horrors of the era—one that is more susceptible to outside information than ever before with the advent of k-pop and video-carrying USB sticks. This is the North Korean society that is described in this book.
In seven fascinating chapters the authors explore what life is actually like in modern North Korea today for the ordinary "man and woman on the street." They interview experts and tap a broad variety of sources to bring a startling new insider's view of North Korean society—from members of Pyongyang's ruling families to defectors from different periods and regions, to diplomats and NGOs with years of experience in the country, to cross-border traders from neighboring China, and textual accounts appearing in English, Korean and Chinese sources. The resulting stories reveal the horror as well as the innovation and humor which abound in this fascinating country.
0 有用 babelfish 2020-12-25 06:38:30
通篇according to one source,给我一种作者根本没有求证过就写书的感觉……
0 有用 王哥 2020-06-09 04:24:42
书里有关朝鲜的市场、休闲娱乐和时尚这几个方面的内容以前没了解过。写得有点无聊,像教科书。
0 有用 格柏乌 2017-12-14 06:54:58
内容至少看起来很可靠,没有传奇小说式的夸大渲染
0 有用 已注销 2016-10-08 11:14:25
我对我的时代的回应大概就是,女儿求我安慰她
0 有用 elena_sokolova 2015-07-01 19:10:54
今年为数不多的买了之后觉得钱没白花的书。今年4月新出版的,内容很新,全面,足够严谨,文笔也好,三个晚上就读完了。而且喜欢注释是在每页下方,而不是全堆在书最后。
0 有用 AmiZ米 2023-12-24 09:57:00 墨西哥
from finn//3.5 資本主義凝視有點太嚴重,兩位作者彷彿活在後資本主義天堂,不過最後一章寫得很好,政權永遠不會倒下,只會互相勾結
0 有用 babelfish 2020-12-25 06:38:30
通篇according to one source,给我一种作者根本没有求证过就写书的感觉……
0 有用 AED野外捕手 2020-10-28 05:23:16
蛮记录的东西 细节写得很真实世界 不能自己去就只能看看游记咯
0 有用 秋天的芦苇 2020-06-29 11:15:11
一本很有意思的小书,可以更好的了解一个国家不为人知的一面
0 有用 王哥 2020-06-09 04:24:42
书里有关朝鲜的市场、休闲娱乐和时尚这几个方面的内容以前没了解过。写得有点无聊,像教科书。