Embassies in the East (British Embassy)

This text traces the history of three Far Eastern embassies through the vicissitudes of war and revolution against the background of an apparent steady decline of Western influence in Asia. Dr Hoare tracks the key events and people shaping the British view of Asia.Key 'dramatis personae' are Sir Harry Parkes, British Minister to Japan, China and Korea; Sir Ernest Satow, the student interpreter who became Minister in Tokyo and Peking, and in more recent years, Sir Charles Eliot, lover of big cars and scholar of Buddhism.This book will interest those wishing to know more about all aspects of Britain in East Asia, whether in the tense years of the Boxer troubles in China, during the wartime repatriation of Britons from Japan and the Japanese Empire, in the traumas of the Korean War, or during the excess of China's Cultural Revolution.

Embassies in the East: The Story of the British and Their Embassies in China, Japan and Korea from 1859 to the Present (British Embassy Series, 1)

Hoare, J.E.

History

Routledge

<p>This text traces the history of three Far Eastern embassies through the vicissitudes of war and revolution against the background of an apparent steady decline of Western influence in Asia. Dr Hoare tracks the key events and people shaping the British view of Asia.<br>Key 'dramatis personae' are Sir Harry Parkes, British Minister to Japan, China and Korea; Sir Ernest Satow, the student interpreter who became Minister in Tokyo and Peking, and in more recent years, Sir Charles Eliot, lover of big cars and scholar of Buddhism.<br>This book will interest those wishing to know more about all aspects of Britain in East Asia, whether in the tense years of the Boxer troubles in China, during the wartime repatriation of Britons from Japan and the Japanese Empire, in the traumas of the Korean War, or during the excess of China's Cultural Revolution.</p>

Reference

The success of the first two volumes in this series has prompted this third volume of 25 further protraits of key personalities, including Natsume Soseki, Thomas Blackiston, Ivan Morris, Admiral Saito and Ozaki Yukio.

Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits, Vol. III (Japan Library)

This volume is an up-to-date primary reference source on North Korea and should be useful reading for anyone visiting or researching the country. Special consideration is given to North Korea's foreign policy, the functioning of the administration, the North's relationship with the South, the question of reunification and nuclear issues. including geography, history, politics and government, economy, education, religious practice, cultural values and view of the outside world. Part II offers more practical guidelines to travellers, including festivals, important cultural and architectural landmarks, business etiquette, dealing with officialdom and taboos. contemporary images of North Korea, covering many aspects of daily and institutional life.

North Korea in the 21st Century

Pares, Susan

Hoare, James E.

Asia

Global Oriental

A primary reference source on North Korea for anyone visiting or researching the country, this title discusses North Korea's foreign policy, the functioning of the administration, the North's relationship with the South, the question of reunification and nuclear issues.

North Korea in the 21st Century: An Interpretive Guide