...Gregory Henderson Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1977 1977 Embassy at War: An Account of the Early Weeks of the Korean War and U.S. Relations with South Korean President Syngman Rhee . By Harold Joyce Noble , edited With an Introduction By Frank Baldwin . Seattle...

...Mesrob Vartavarian Foreign Friends: Syngman Rhee, American Exceptionalism, and the Division of Korea . By David P. Fields . Lexington : University Press of Kentucky , 2019 . vi, 254 pp. ISBN: 9780813177199 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022...

...Clarence Norwood Weems Korea's Syngman Rhee: An Unauthorized Portrait . By Richard C. Allen (pseudonym). Rutland and Tokyo : Charles E. Tuttle , 1960 . 259 . Illustrated, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $3.75. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1961 1961 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Hong Yung Lee Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 Syngman Rhee: The Prison Years of a Young Radical . By Chong-Sik Lee . Seoul : Yonsei University Press , 2001 . xix , 207 pp. ₩10,000 (cloth). 1074 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES emotionally connected, way...

...Suk Koo Rhee Abstract This article analyzes the ways that Korean Chinese migrants are exploited aesthetically in their ancestral homeland by focusing on their mass-media refiguration. These return migrants, or the Chosŏnjok, have been received by their South Korean co-ethnics into what may...

...John Y. Rhee New Korea. New Land of the Morning Calm . By Kyung Cho Chung . New York : Macmillan , 1962 . 286 . Photographs, Map, Appendix, Index. $6.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1962 1962 BOOK REVIEWS 561 that the United States was carrying nearly...

...Jooyeon Rhee From Domestic Women to Sensitive Young Men: Translating the Individual in Early Colonial Korea . By Yoon Sun Yang . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2017 . xii, 211 pp. ISBN: 9780674976979 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Jooyeon Rhee Imperial Romance: Fictions of Colonial Intimacy in Korea, 1905–1945 . By Su Yun Kim . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press , 2020 . xi, 204 pp. ISBN: 9781501751882 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 Studies of Koreans...

...Ma-Ji Rhee Moral and Spiritual Cultivation in Japanese Neo-Confucianism: The Life and Thought of Kaibara Ekken (1630–1714) . By Mary E. Tucker . Albany : State University of New York Press , 1989 . vi , 451 pp. $49.50 (cloth); $16.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Sooh-Rhee Ryu Protesting America: Democracy and the U.S.-Korea Alliance . By Katharine H. S. Moon . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2012 . xi, 260 pp. $29.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013  2013 Katharine Moon provides...

..., Han gave a decisive verdict on how Korean liberal democracy had been eclipsed under the two spuriously liberal governments of Syngman Rhee and Chang Myŏn. His legal apology for Park's authoritarian constitutional regime echoed Schmitt's defense of the Führer by invoking the president as an incarnation...

...Dennis Hart The Spirit of Independence: A Primer of Korean Modernization and Reform . By Syngman Rhee . Translated, Annotated, and with an Introduction by Han-Kyo Kim. Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2001 . xvii, 305 pp. $52.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Copyright ©...

...Anthony P. D'Costa The State and Industry in South Korea: The Limits of the Authoritarian State . By Jong-Chan Rhee . London and New York : Routledge , 1994 . xiii, 289 pp. $65.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 806 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

... Dwight D. 1953 . “Letter to Syngman Rhee,” Papers of D. D. Eisenhower (DDE), International Series, DDE Library, November 11. Abilene, Kansas. Eisenhower Dwight D. 1960 . “Memorandum of Conference with the President, June 20, 1960.” Papers of DDE, International Series, DDE Library. Farley...

... such as the peninsula's liberation from Japanese colonial rule, its division, the emergence of two separate states, the Korean War, the demise of the Syngman Rhee regime, the coup d'etat by Major General Park Chung Hee, and the ROK-Japan diplomatic normalization have Washington's fingerprints on them. Ascertaining...

... sentiment in Korea played in shaping the dialogue between South Korea and Japan, and how the political groups in South Korea, including Syngman Rhee's own, manipulated anti-Japanese feeling in order to gain popular support. The underlying assumption of Cheong's study is that "[t]he reason for the diplomatic...

... Rightists disavowed (Ha 2007 , 176). New Right–associated scholars attacked leftist nationalist historiography condemning the oppression and exploitation of the Korean people under Japanese colonial rule (1910–45) and the subsequent authoritarian regimes of Syngman Rhee (1948–60) and Park Chung Hee (1961...

... South Korea was considerably lower than was generally assumed. While the difficulties the U.S. encountered dealing with Syngman Rhee are well documented in the extant literature, the picture that emerges from this book of how the U.S. "persuaded" him to resign as president in April I960 is most...

...) after the boundaries of permitted agricultural practice began to be demarcated in 1875. Such experiences inform powerful memories and beliefs and thereby help one to understand the euphoria that Steve Rhee describes among Dayak peoples in Kalimantan surrounding decentralization in post-Suharto Indonesia...

... stubbornly nationalistic that he often annoyed his American friends. In this sense, the implication of Lee's portrait of Rhee goes beyond mere biographical interest. Rhee represents the first generation of Koreans who benefited from both a traditional and a western education, and were thus torn between two...