Marching through suffering : loss and survival in North Korea

Marching through suffering : loss and survival in North Korea /

"Marching Through Suffering is a deeply personal portrait of the ravages of famine and totalitarian politics in modern North Korea since the 1990s. Featuring interviews with more than thirty North Koreans who defected to Seoul and Tokyo, the book explores the subjective experience of the nation...

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Main Author: Fahy, Sandra (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2015]
Series:Contemporary Asia in the world.
Subjects:
Refugees > Korea (North) > Biography.
Refugees > Korea (North) > Attitudes.
Victims of famine > Korea (North)
Famines > Korea (North)
Human rights > Korea (North)
Starvation.
Communism.
Social history.
Social control.
Resilience, Psychological
Starvation
Refugees
Communism
Social Conditions
Social Control, Formal
Interviews as Topic
starvation.
communism.
social history.
Korea (North) > Social conditions.
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Electronic books.
Biography
Biographies.
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Table of 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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