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Reading North Korea: An Ethnological Inquiry. By Sonia Ryang. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2012. xiii, 244 pp. $39.95 (cloth).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2013

Wonjung Min
Wonjung Min*
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Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
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Wonjung_min@uc.cl
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Book Reviews—Korea
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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 72 , Issue 4 , November 2013 , pp. 1014 - 1015
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013 

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References

11 See Sonia Ryang CV, Department of Anthropology, University of Iowa, 2013, http://clas.uiowa.edu/anthropology/people/sonia-ryang (accessed April 12, 2013).

12 Pukhan munhak yŏngu charyo ch'ongsŏ [A series of reference on North Korean literature] (Seoul: Kuhacharyowŏn, 2012)Google Scholar is one example.

13 Han, Jung-Mo and Jeong, Seong-Mu, Juch'eŭi munye riron yŏnggu [A study of Juche literary art theory] (Pyongyang: Sahoekwahakchulpansa, 1983)Google Scholar, 40. Quoted in Ryang, Sonia, Reading North Korea (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press Asia Center, 2012)Google Scholar, 186.

14 Park, Kyung-Ae and Snyder, Scott (eds.), North Korea in Transition: Politics, Economy, and Society (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2013)Google Scholar; Hassig, Ralph C. and Oh, Kongdan, The Hidden People of North Korea: Everyday Life in the Hermit Kingdom (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2009)Google Scholar; and Demick, Barbara, Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea (New York: Spiegel and Grau, 2010)Google Scholar might be the most recent humanistic approaches to this region.