North Korea’s Mundane Revolution (eBook)

Socialist Living and the Rise of Kim Il Sung, 1953–1965

Andre Schmid (Autor)

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2024
352 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-39286-1 (ISBN)

Infos

When the crucial years after the Korean War are remembered today, histories about North Korea largely recount a grand epic of revolution centering on the ascent of Kim Il Sung to absolute power. Often overshadowed in this storyline, however, are the myriad ways the Korean population participated in party-state projects to rebuild their lives and country after the devastation of the war. North Korea's Mundane Revolution traces the origins of the country's long-term durability in the questions that Korean women and men raised about the modern individual, housing, family life, and consumption. Using a wide range of overlooked sources, Andre Schmid examines the formation of a gendered socialist lifestyle in North Korea by focusing on the localized processes of socioeconomic and cultural change. This style of "New Living" replaced radical definitions of gender and class revolution with the politics of individual self-reform and cultural elevation, leading to a depoliticization of the country's political culture in the very years that Kim Il Sung rose to power.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.1.2024
• Reihe/Serie: Asia Pacific Modern
• Reihe/Serie: Asia Pacific Modern
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: advice literature • apartments • Biopolitics • China • Cold War • Collective • consumption • Cultural Change • domesticity • domestic spaces • Family • Ideology • Industry • Labor • neighborhood committee • north Korean history • Party state • Pyongyang • Soviet Union • transition to socialism
• ISBN-10: 0-520-39286-8 / 0520392868
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-39286-1 / 9780520392861