... of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea in Shanghai in the fall of 1919. As the first umbrella organization for the exile movement, the Provisional Government attracted major leaders such as Syngman Rhee, An Ch'angho, and Yi Tonghwi as well as younger activists from Japan and Korea. Activities...

... written, well organized, and rests on a solid research. For years to come, both to specialist and general public, it is going to be a major work on North Korea along with a few other available works in English (i.e., Scalapino's North Korea Today, 1963; Paige's The Korean People's Democratic Republic...

... clues, especially two letters sent from Shanghai to Ku Ch'un-son, president of the Taehan Kungminhoe, "Greater Korea National Association," in Chientao. The first letter, dated May n , 1920, was sent by three leading officials of the Provisional Government, Premier Yi, Kim Rip (Chief Secretary...

... for Korea. Plate 4 is an index to the 25 provincial plates and includes tables of provincial areas and population, as well as urban and rural population estimates for the mainland as a whole between 1949 and 1956. Preceding the body of the atlas are several pages of text and tables. These include...

... presents a panoramic view of the multiple and diverse aspects of South Korean politics and government since the founding of the Republic of Korea in 1948. In allowing each contributing author to pursue his or her own framework of analysis and perspectives on Korea's political culture, the editors succeeded...

... that a historical model of modern Korean political systems may be older than the Republic of Korea Provisional Government or the communist guerrilla movements respectively, the self-claimed roots of rival South and North Korean regimes. Why not the reforming Korean Empire (1897 1910)? EUGENE Y. PARK University...

... of the romanization system with a guide to pronunciation. The hangul spelling follows, wherever possible, the Republic of Korea Government's specific spelling rules. (Unfortunately, there appears to be a move to discard these rules and go back to the chaotic situation in which persons spelled phonetically according...

... conservative detective Hong Chong-u; the failure, on page 33, to connect up Russian concessions to Japan with respect to Korea in the Nishi-Rosen Agreement of 1898 with Russia's vital lease of Port Arthur; the assertion on pages 22, 50, 55, and 60 that a dominant figure at the Provisional Government's...

... war in Manchuria that has been celebrated as the single basis of Korean independence (while acknowledging that the Soviet Union, and perhaps even the United States, was instrumental in defeating Japan in World War II). The Republic of Korea in the South traces its lineage to the Korean Provisional...

... and the United States in the south. This division reified the growing tensions between the US and the USSR and contributed to the creation of two opposing provisional governments in 1948, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the ROK. Immediate and subsequent disagreements within the United...

... JAPAN Bailey, Don C , A Glossary of Japanese Neologisms [Joseph K. Yamagiwa] Bellah, Robert N., Tokugawa Religion [H. D. Harootunian] Bronfenbrenner, Martin, Academic Encounter. The American University in Japan and Korea [John W. Bennett] Cary, James, Japan Today, Reluctant Ally [Claude A. Buss] Conroy...

... of contemporary Asian affairs should welcome it not only for its lucid analysis, but also for its wealth of documentation on the role of the PLA in China's nation-building. J. CHESTER CHENG San Francisco State University Korea Under Japanese Colonial Rule. EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW C. NAHM. Kalamazoo...

...Masaru Ikei Abstract The revolution that erupted in China in 1911 came as a shock to Japan. The Japanese had taken advantage of the opportunity created by their victory over Russia in 1905 to annex Korea and extend their influence into China. Their chief aim was to use the Korean peninsula...

... of Korea's experience of modernity, after liberation the state continued to penetrate deeper into the society and that this process of accelerated governmentalization on the heels of the national democratic revolution produced a new system of Communist laws and social regulations in the DPRK, which combined...

... in 1919. As the legitimate successor to the Korean Provisional Government that arose directly after the March First Movement, South Korea inherited and embodied the Korean innate spirit of resistance as well. The parallels to and lessons for the modern era were obvious: once again facing a national crisis...

..., it “does not undermine good morals or other social order [ sŏllyang han p'ungsok kita sahoe chilsŏ ] of the Republic of Korea.” 15 Article 10 of the Korean Act on Private International Law states, “In case a foreign law governs, that law shall not apply if the application of its provisions evidently...

... tradition" (p. 268). The alleged "Confucian cultural tradition" (perhaps someone will one day figure out how to define it) has certainly not prevented democratic reform in Taiwan or South Korea (a verity that Chun Doo Hwan and Roh Tae Woo will likely have much time to contemplate). Further, the suggestion...

...]. People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy . 2010b . “ROK Government Should Strengthen Crisis Management System, Not Military Might,” last modified December 12, http://blog.peoplepower21.org/English/20999 [accessed February 11, 2011]. Republic of Korea, Ministry of National Defense . 2002...

... of a provisional revolutionary government, claiming to supplant the government headed by President Sukarno. In Thailand, Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat, who had replaced Field Marshal Pibul Songgram, reasserted and tightened his dictatorial control. In the Middle East the United Arab Republic was established under...

... a Master's degree in Political Science in 1922. He was awarded an honorary Doctorate by Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea, in 1968. 6 Additional details of these episodes will be in William G. Saywell and Herman Mast III, Unless Its Ideology Fails: Tat Chi-t'ao and the Chinese Kuomintang, 1912...