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DESCRIPTION:Charles Armstrong on Postmodern Pyongyang: North Korea's Transf
 ormations through its Changing Built EnvironmentCharles Armstrong\, Columb
 ia UniversityNorth Korea’s urban landscape has\nevolved in numerous ways i
 n recent decades\, despite the perception that the\ncountry is stuck in a 
 Stalinist time-warp. Its architecture can be\ncharacterized as "socialist 
 postmodernism." It is dictated by the directives\nof the central state\, b
 ut is surprisingly resonant with both Western\npostmodernism and post-soci
 alist trends in the former Soviet Union and China.\nCharles Armstrong will
  discuss Pyongyang’s built environment as a reflection of\nbroader changes
  in North Korea’s culture and society.&nbsp\;Professor Armstrong is the Ko
 rea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies in the Social\nSciences at Colu
 mbia University. His latest book\, Tyranny of the Weak: North\nKorea and t
 he World\, 1950 – 1992 (Cornell University Press\, 2013)\, won the\nAmeric
 an Historical Association John Fairbank Prize for East Asian History in\n2
 014.&nbsp\;Open to the PublicSponsored by the Department of History and th
 e East Asia Program at the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs  
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SUMMARY:EA presents: Charles Armstrong
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p></p><p><b>Charles Armstrong on Postmodern P
 yongyang: North Korea's Transformations through its Changing Built Environ
 ment</b></p><p><b>Charles Armstrong</b>\, Columbia University</p><p>North 
 Korea’s urban landscape has\nevolved in numerous ways in recent decades\, 
 despite the perception that the\ncountry is stuck in a Stalinist time-warp
 . Its architecture can be\ncharacterized as "socialist postmodernism." It 
 is dictated by the directives\nof the central state\, but is surprisingly 
 resonant with both Western\npostmodernism and post-socialist trends in the
  former Soviet Union and China.\nCharles Armstrong will discuss Pyongyang’
 s built environment as a reflection of\nbroader changes in North Korea’s c
 ulture and society.&nbsp\;</p><p>Professor Armstrong is the Korea Foundati
 on Professor of Korean Studies in the Social\nSciences at Columbia Univers
 ity. His latest book\, Tyranny of the Weak: North\nKorea and the World\, 1
 950 – 1992 (Cornell University Press\, 2013)\, won the\nAmerican Historica
 l Association John Fairbank Prize for East Asian History in\n2014.&nbsp\;<
 /p><p>Open to the Public</p><p><i><b>Sponsored by the Department of Histor
 y and the East Asia Program at the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs</b
 ></i></p><p> </p><p> </p><p></p>
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