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Author Myers, B. R., 1963-

Title The cleanest race : how North Koreans see themselves and why it matters / B.R. Myers.

Publication Info. Brooklyn, N.Y. : Melville House, [2010]
©2010

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  HN730.6.Z9 M66 2010    Available  ---
Edition 1st ed.
Description 200 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-200).
Summary "Here B. R. Myers, a North Korea analyst and a contributing editor of The Atlantic, presents the first full-length study of the North Korean worldview. Drawing on extensive research into the regime's domestic propaganda, including films, romance novels and other artifacts of the personality cult, Myers analyzes each of the country's official myths in turn - from the notion of Koreans' unique moral purity, to the myth of an America quaking in terror of "the Iron General." In a concise but groundbreaking historical section, Myers also traces the origins of this official culture back to the Japanese fascist thought in which North Korea's first idealogues were schooled."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject Korea (North) -- Social conditions.
Korea (North)
Social conditions.
Propaganda, North Korean -- Social aspects.
Propaganda, North Korean.
Social aspects.
Nationalism -- Korea (North)
Nationalism.
National characteristics, Korean.
National characteristics, Korean.
Ethnicity -- Korea (North)
Ethnicity.
ISBN 9781933633916
1933633913