The Path of Gratitude: East German Climbers in North Korea's Diamond Mountains.
This article investigates the origins, course, and experiences of two East German mountaineering expeditions to North Korea in the 1980s. Examining how expedition members understood and processed their encounters with socialism in the Far East, it explores how their experiences with time and space a...
| Publicado en: | German Studies Review Vol. 48; no. 2; pp. 289 - 313 |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
May2025
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| Sumario: | This article investigates the origins, course, and experiences of two East German mountaineering expeditions to North Korea in the 1980s. Examining how expedition members understood and processed their encounters with socialism in the Far East, it explores how their experiences with time and space as well as dictatorship and modernity in North Korea led them to ponder the nature and future of state socialism back home in the German Democratic Republic. |
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