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27%OFFJieun Baek - North Korea´s Hidden Revolution: How the Information Underground Is Transforming a Closed Society - 9780300217810 - V9780300217810
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North Korea´s Hidden Revolution: How the Information Underground Is Transforming a Closed Society

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Description for North Korea´s Hidden Revolution: How the Information Underground Is Transforming a Closed Society Hardback. The story of North Korea's information underground and how it inspires people to seek better lives beyond their country's borders Num Pages: 312 pages, 9 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1FPKN; 3JM; HBJF; HBLX; JPWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 243 x 31. Weight in Grams: 604.
The story of North Korea's information underground and how it inspires people to seek better lives beyond their country's borders One of the least understood countries in the world, North Korea has long been known for its repressive regime. Yet it is far from being an impenetrable black box. Media flows covertly into the country, and fault lines are appearing in the government's sealed informational borders. Drawing on deeply personal interviews with North Korean defectors from all walks of life, ranging from propaganda artists to diplomats, Jieun Baek tells the story of North Korea's information underground-the ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300217810
SKU
V9780300217810
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About Jieun Baek
Jieun Baek is a Ph.D. candidate in Public Policy at the University of Oxford. Previously, she was a research fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University and worked at Google, where, among other roles, she served as Google Ideas' North Korea expert. Baek received her bachelor's and master's degrees in Public Policy from Harvard. ... Read more

Reviews for North Korea´s Hidden Revolution: How the Information Underground Is Transforming a Closed Society
A fine primer on the country, based on extensive interviews with defectors. -Min Jin Lee, Times Literary Supplement A fascinating book. -Nicholas Kristof, New York Times In the last two decades, North Korea has gone through dramatic changes, largely because the old system of self-isolation began to crumble. In vivid detail, Jieun Baek's book shows this ... Read more

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