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DESCRIPTION:East Asia Program presents: Charles K. Armstrong - Postmodern P
 yongyang: North Korea's Trasnformations through its Changing Built Environ
 mentCharles K. Armstrong\, Korea Foundation Professor&nbsp\;of Korean Stud
 ies in the Social Sciences\, History Department\, Columbia University\n\nN
 orth Korea's urban landscape has\nevolved in numerous ways over the last s
 everal decades\, especially in recent\nyears when creeping marketization\n
 has\ncreated new spaces of consumption\, distribution and social interacti
 on. North\nKorea's transformations are parallel to those of former sociali
 st countries of\nthe Soviet Union and Eastern Europe\, with which North Ko
 rea has maintained\nclose connections throughout the regime's existence. T
 he trend in Pyongyang’s\nbuilt environment since 1989 can be characterized
  as "socialist\npostmodernism\," still dictated by the directives of the c
 entral state yet\nsurprisingly resonant with both Western postmodernism an
 d post-socialist trends\nin the former Soviet Union and China.\n\nProfesso
 r\nArmstrong’s teaching and research interests\ninclude modern Korean hist
 ory\, East Asian international history\, US-East Asian\nrelations and worl
 d history. He is the author\, editor or co-editor of several\nbooks\, incl
 uding The Koreas\; Tyranny\nof the Weak: North Korea and the World\, 1950–
 1992\; Korea\nat the Center: Dynamics of Regionalism in Northeast Asia\; K
 orean\nSociety: Civil Society\, Democracy and the State\; and The\nNorth K
 orean Revolution\,\n1945–1950.\n\nFor\ninformation on accessibility\, or t
 o request accommodation\, please contact Oana\nZabava&nbsp\;at\n(315) 443-
 9248 or oazabava@syr.eduSponsored by the East Asia Program at the Moynihan
  Institute of Global Affairs\n\n \n\n \n\n 
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SUMMARY:East Asia Program presents: Charles K. Armstrong - Postmodern Pyong
 yang: North Korea's Trasnformations through its Changing Built Environment
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p><strong>East Asia Program presents: Charles
  K. Armstrong - Postmodern Pyongyang: North Korea's Trasnformations throug
 h its Changing Built Environment</strong></p><p><strong>Charles K. Armstro
 ng</strong>\, <em>Korea Foundation Professor&nbsp\;of Korean Studies in th
 e Social Sciences\, History Department\, Columbia University</em></p><p>\n
 \n</p><p>North Korea's urban landscape has\nevolved in numerous ways over 
 the last several decades\, especially in recent\nyears when creeping marke
 tization\nhas\ncreated new spaces of consumption\, distribution and social
  interaction. North\nKorea's transformations are parallel to those of form
 er socialist countries of\nthe Soviet Union and Eastern Europe\, with whic
 h North Korea has maintained\nclose connections throughout the regime's ex
 istence. The trend in Pyongyang’s\nbuilt environment since 1989 can be cha
 racterized as "socialist\npostmodernism\," still dictated by the directive
 s of the central state yet\nsurprisingly resonant with both Western postmo
 dernism and post-socialist trends\nin the former Soviet Union and China.</
 p><p>\n\n</p><p>Professor\nArmstrong’s teaching and research interests\nin
 clude modern Korean history\, East Asian international history\, US-East A
 sian\nrelations and world history. He is the author\, editor or co-editor 
 of several\nbooks\, including <em>The Koreas\; Tyranny\nof the Weak: North
  Korea and the World\, 1950–1992\; Korea\nat the Center: Dynamics of Regio
 nalism in Northeast Asia\; Korean\nSociety: Civil Society\, Democracy and 
 the State\; and The\nNorth Korean Revolution\,\n1945–1950</em>.</p><p>\n\n
 </p><p>For\ninformation on accessibility\, or to request accommodation\, p
 lease contact Oana\nZabava&nbsp\;at\n(315) 443-9248 or oazabava@syr.edu</p
 ><p><strong><em>Sponsored by the East Asia Program at the Moynihan Institu
 te of Global Affairs</em></strong><br></p>\n\n <p>\n\n </p><p>\n\n </p>
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