North Korea Confidential

出版者:Tuttle Publishing

作者:Daniel Tudor

页数:224

出版时间:2015-4-14

价格:USD 21.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780804844581

图书标签:朝鲜社科历史英文原版社会北韩政治Korean-Studies社会学

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.

读后感

相比之前看过的《我们最伟大：一个德国喜剧作家的北韩奇遇记》和《朝鲜冷面：一位法国记者暗访北韩的见闻纪实》是对朝鲜社会体制毫无价值的吐槽游记，这本《什么，这才是真的北韩人》才是真正理性思考下的结晶。 这是一本关于世界上最神秘国度的书，两位资深朝鲜问题记者将他们...

相比之前看过的《我们最伟大：一个德国喜剧作家的北韩奇遇记》和《朝鲜冷面：一位法国记者暗访北韩的见闻纪实》是对朝鲜社会体制毫无价值的吐槽游记，这本《什么，这才是真的北韩人》才是真正理性思考下的结晶。 这是一本关于世界上最神秘国度的书，两位资深朝鲜问题记者将他们...

相比之前看过的《我们最伟大：一个德国喜剧作家的北韩奇遇记》和《朝鲜冷面：一位法国记者暗访北韩的见闻纪实》是对朝鲜社会体制毫无价值的吐槽游记，这本《什么，这才是真的北韩人》才是真正理性思考下的结晶。 这是一本关于世界上最神秘国度的书，两位资深朝鲜问题记者将他们...

相比之前看过的《我们最伟大：一个德国喜剧作家的北韩奇遇记》和《朝鲜冷面：一位法国记者暗访北韩的见闻纪实》是对朝鲜社会体制毫无价值的吐槽游记，这本《什么，这才是真的北韩人》才是真正理性思考下的结晶。 这是一本关于世界上最神秘国度的书，两位资深朝鲜问题记者将他们...

相比之前看过的《我们最伟大：一个德国喜剧作家的北韩奇遇记》和《朝鲜冷面：一位法国记者暗访北韩的见闻纪实》是对朝鲜社会体制毫无价值的吐槽游记，这本《什么，这才是真的北韩人》才是真正理性思考下的结晶。 这是一本关于世界上最神秘国度的书，两位资深朝鲜问题记者将他们...

用户评价

Up-to-date, concise and informative. Fair enough to compare current North Korea to China in the 70s as the book keeps reminding me of Nien Cheng's Life and Death in Shanghai.

封闭的隐秘朝鲜，人民的欲望与追求都是相通的。

封闭的隐秘朝鲜，人民的欲望与追求都是相通的。

这本书好在比较写实，一些固有的成见与范式相对少了一些，算是写朝鲜转变的一部杰出之作。

前半部分的确可以，讲了些很刷新人认识的信息，但从中段开始感觉有些乏力。信息不够充足，而作者又花了不少笔墨证实自己的客观性，其实没这个必要。