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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Dear KS moderator,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Sorry to write again, but could you please send out the announcement below, a slightly revised version. Thank you,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Jooyeon<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>CKR is pleased to announce the publication of Cheehyung Harrison Kim’a book <i>Heroes and Toilers: Work as Life in Postwar North Korea, 1953-1961</i> published by Columbia University Press. This is the second book in the Center for Korean Research book series. For more information on the series, please visit: <a href="http://ckr.weai.columbia.edu/ckr-cup-book-series/">http://ckr.weai.columbia.edu/ckr-cup-book-series/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i>Heroes and Toilers: Work as Life in Postwar North Korea, 1953–1961</i></b><br>Cheehyung Harrison Kim<br>Columbia University Press<br>Date of Publication: November 2018<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In search of national unity and state control in the decade following the Korean War, North Korea turned to labor. Mandating rapid industrial growth, the government stressed order and consistency in everyday life at both work and home. In <i>Heroes and Toilers</i>, Cheehyung Harrison Kim offers an unprecedented account of life and labor in postwar North Korea that brings together the roles of governance and resistance.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Kim traces the state’s pursuit of progress through industrialism and examines how ordinary people challenged it every step of the way. Even more than coercion or violence, he argues, work was crucial to state control. Industrial labor was both mode of production and mode of governance, characterized by repetitive work, mass mobilization, labor heroes, and the insistence on convergence between living and working. At the same time, workers challenged and reconfigured state power to accommodate their circumstances—coming late to work, switching jobs, fighting with bosses, and profiting from the black market, as well as following approved paths to secure their livelihood, resolve conflict, and find happiness. <i>Heroes and Toilers</i> is a groundbreaking analysis of postwar North Korea that avoids the pitfalls of exoticism and exceptionalism to offer a new answer to the fundamental question of North Korea’s historical development.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>ABOUT THE AUTHOR<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Cheehyung Harrison Kim is assistant professor of history at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The CKR/CUP Book Series is supported by the Core University Program for Korean Studies through the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>and the Korean Studies Promotion Service of the Academy of Korean Studies (AKS-2016-OLU-2250006).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Best,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>Jooyeon Kim <br>Assistant Director</span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><i><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'><a href="http://ckr.weai.columbia.edu/" target="_blank"><span style='color:blue'>The Center for Korean Research</span></a></span></i><u><span style='color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'><a href="http://weai.columbia.edu/" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:blue'>Weatherhead East Asian Institute</span></a></span><span style='color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>Columbia University</span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white'>420 West 118th Street, Office 907</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><br><span style='background:white'>New York, New York 10027<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'><a href="https://www.facebook.com/CenterForKoreanResearch/"><span style='color:blue'>facebook</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>