The Cleanest Race: How the North Korean See Themselves and Why it Matters
Friday, February 12, 201012:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Pacific)
Brian Myers will talk about his new book The Cleanest Race: How the North Korean See Themselves and Why it Matters (January 2010).
Myers was born in New Jersey and raised in Bermuda, South Africa, and Germany. He has a Ph.D. in North Korean Studies from the University of Tubingen, Germany. His books include Han Sorya and North Korean Literature (1994) and A Reader's Manifesto (2002).
In addition to writing literary criticism for The Atlantic, of which he is a contributing editor, Myers regularly contributes articles on North Korea to the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and academic journals. He is a contributor to a book First Drafts of Korea: The U.S. Media and Perceptions of the Last Cold War Frontier (2009) published by The Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center of Stanford University.
This seminar is supported by the generous grant from Koret Foundation.