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Week IX:
March 5th and 7th
Marketization from Below
Tuesday, March 5th
Stumbling toward the Market
Thursday, March 1st
1:30-2:20 Guest Speaker: Linda Lewis, American Friends Service Committee
2:30-3:20 Who's in charge in the DPRK?
Reading:
- Tudor and Pearson, chaps 1-3
- Byung-yeon Kim, chapter 3
Graduate Reading
- Andrei Lankov, Peter Ward, Ho-yeol Yoo and Ji-young Kimg, "Making Money in the State: North Korea Pseudo-State Enterprises in the early 2000s," Journal of East Asian Studies 17 (2017):51-67 (find electronic version on journal on UW library web site)
Study Questions:
- How does having markets change North Korean social structure (social stratification)?
- How does having markets change North Korean culture? Does this matter politically?
- How is modern communications changing North Korean society? Is it politically significant?
- What is the role of humanitarian aid in North Korean society today?
- Paper due March 8th by 11:59PM
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