North Korea : beyond charismatic politics /

North Korea : beyond charismatic politics /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Kwon, Heonik, 1962-
Imprint:	Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc, ©2012.
Description:	1 online resource : illustrations.
Language:	English
Series:	Asia/Pacific/perspectives Asia/Pacific/perspectives.
Subject:	Politics and government. Korea (North) -- Politics and government. Korea (North)
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11403872

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Other authors / contributors:	Chung, Byung-Ho, 1955-
ISBN:	9781442215771 1442215771 0742556794 9780742556799 9780742556805
Notes:	Title from PDF title page (viewed Aug. 1, 2012). Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	This timely, pathbreaking study of North Korea's political history and culture sheds invaluable light on the country's unique leadership continuity and succession. Leading scholars Heonik Kwon and Byung-Ho Chung begin by tracing Kim Il Sung's rise to power during the Cold War. They show how his successor, his eldest son, Kim Jong Il, sponsored the production of revolutionary art to unleash a public political culture that would consolidate Kim's charismatic power and his own hereditary authority. The result was the birth of a powerful modern theater state that sustains North K.
Other form:	Print version: 9786613635105
Standard no.:	9786613635105

Table of Contents:

The great national bereavement, 1994
The modern theater state
The barrel of a gun
The graves of revolutionary martyrs
Gifts to the leader
The moral economy.