Degrees

Ph.D., Harvard University
A.M., Harvard University
A.M., Agra University (India)
A.B., Agra University

Main Interests

Wheaton College

• Professor, Department of History, 1990-.
• Associate Professor of History, 1984-90.
• Assistant Professor of Asian History, 1977-84.
• Chairman, Department of History, 1988-91; 1999-2000 Acting Chairman,
• 1996-1997;2006-2007
• Coordinator, Asian Studies Program, Spring 1996; 1992-1995; 1978-1985

Harvard University

• Teaching Fellow in Korean Language, 1970-71.
• Teaching Fellow in Social Sciences 11 (East Asian Civilization) 1972,
• 1976.
• Head Teaching Fellow in Social Sciences 11, 1976-77.
• Teaching Assistant, Government 118 (Government and Politics of Japan),
• 1972, 1973, 1974.
• Tutor in Modern Japanese History, Committee on the A.B. Degree in East
• Asian Studies, 1976-77.

Hanguk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul

• Lecturer in Hindi, 1966-68.
• Meerut College, Meerut (India)
• Lecturer in political science, 1961-65.

Languages: Hindi, Chinese (classical), Japanese, Korean, Urdu, Punjabi, and English

Research Interests

Research interests comprise the modern history of Korea and Korean-Japanese relations.

Fellowships and Grants:

• Republic of Korea language fellowship (sponsored by the Indian School of International Studies, New Delhi, India), 1966-68.
• Harvard-Yenching Institute travel grant for research and travel in Japan, Korea, and India, summer 1973.
• Harvard-Yenching Institute fellowship, 1969-76.
• Wheaton College travel grants for India, Japan and Korea, summer and winter 1979-80; Japan, 1990
• Wheaton College grant for research in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia, Summer 1980.
• Social Science Research Council -- American Council of Learned Societies research grant for revision of Ph.D. dissertation, summer 1982.
• International Cultural Society of Korea (Travel and Research Award, 1990)
• The Academy of Korean Studies Travel and Research Award, The Committee on Korean Studies (of the AAS) Award, Summer1990, for research in Japan. (AKS award declined)
• National Endowment for the Humanities Independent Study Award, Summer 1992
• Fulbright Senior Scholar for Korea, 1993-94

Research in Progress

A comparative study of the Korean and Indian collaborators of Japan and United Kingdom in World War II Korea and India, respectively.

Teaching Interests

History and politics of East Asia and South Asia

Publications

Research Monograph

Imperialism, Resistance and Reform in Late Nineteenth Century Korea:Enlightenment and the Independence Club (1896-98). 240 pages(Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, University ofCalifornia,1988).

Scholarly Articles

"An Outline Study of the Ilchin-hoe (Advancement Society) of Korea," inOccasional Papers on Korea, No. 2, March 1974, (C) JointCommittee on Korean Studies of the Social Science ResearchCouncil and the American Council of Learned Societies, New York.(Published by The University of Washington, Seattle)

"The Independence Club and Korea's First Proposal for a NationalLegislative Assembly," in Occasional Papers on Korea, No. 4,September 1975 (C)JCKS of SSRC-ACLS, New York

"The Concept of Popular Sovereignty: The Case of So Chae-p'il and YunCh'i-ho, in Korea Journal (Korean National Commission for UNESCO,Seoul), Vol. 21, No. 4, April 1981.

"The Korean Enlightenment: A Re-examination," in Korea Journal, Vol.22,No. 5, May 1982. Also published in Korean Culture (KoreanCultural Service, Los Angeles), Vol. 3, No. 2, June 1982.

"Korean Human Rights Consciousness in an Era of Transition: A Surveyof Late 19th-Century Developments" in William Shaw, ed., HumanRightsin Korea, Harvard University, Council on East AsianStudies, 1991

"Sentiment and Ideology in the Nationalism of the Independence Club(1896-98)," in Korean Studies, Vol. 10 (1986) pp. 13-34.

"Review article on Kim Key-Hiuk, The Last Phase of the East Asian WorldOrder: Korea, Japan and the Chinese Empire (Berkeley and LosAngeles: University of California Press, 1980); and MartinaDeuchler, Confucian Gentlemen and Barbarian Envoys (Seattle andLondon:University of Washington Press, 1977), in Journal ofKorean Studies, Vol. 6 (1985-87).

Articles on the Independence Party, So Chae-p'il, Pak Yong-hyo, and Yu Kil-chun in the Encyclopedia of Asian History, (New York:Charles Scribner's Sons, 1987).

"Pioneer Thinkers in Yi Korea's Quest for Modernization" in KoreanCulture(Los Angeles: March 1987).

"Characteristics of the Pro-British Indian Intellectuals During theColonial Period," in Studies on the Pro-Japanese Korean Faction(Seoul: Karam Kihoek summer '94 and summer '95). Thesearticles and journal are in the Korean language.

"The Development of Nationalism and Democracy in Late 19th-CenturyKorea," in A Fresh Elucidation of Modern Korean Communications(Seoul: Minumsa, 1996). The article and the book are in theKorean language.

"Comparative Intellectual and Activist Responses to the West: China, Korea,and Japan," in So Chaepil and His Times, Seoul, 2003

"Annoted Bibliography on the Korean War," Korea Society, New York (2001).

Book Reviews - Long (3-10 pages)

Review of Sandra Mattielli, ed., Virtues in Conflict: Tradition andthe Korean Woman (Seoul: Royal Asiatic Society, 1977), in Journal ofKorean Studies, Vol. 2, 1980.

Review of Lee Kwang-nin, Han'guk kaehwa sasang yon'gu (Seoul:Ilchogak, 1979), in Journal of Korean Studies, Vol. 3, 1981.

Review of Robert R. Swartout, Jr., Mandarins, Gunboats and PowerPolitics(Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii, 1980), in KoreanStudies (Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawaii) Vol. 5, 1982.

"The Virtue-Law Dichotomy in Yi Korea," a review of William Shaw, LegalNorms in a Confucian State (Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies,University of California, 1981), in Journal of Korean Studies, Vol 5, 1984.

Review of Quee-Young Kim, The Fall of Syngman Rhee (Berkeley:Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, 1983), inJournal ofKorean Studies, Vol 5, 1984.

Review of Daesook Suh and Young-Nok Koo, eds., Korea and the UnitedStates: A Century of Cooperation (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1985), in Korean Studies, Vol. 9, 1985.

Feature review of Kozo Yamamura, ed., The Cambridge History of Japan,Vol. 3 (Medieval Japan) in History: Review of New Books (Fall 1991).

Review of Yur-Bok Lee and Wayne Patterson, ed., One Hundred Years ofKorean-American Relations, 1882-1982 (University City: University of Alabama Press, 1986) in Korean Studies, Vol. 11, 1987.

Review of Michael E. Robinson, Cultural Nationalism in ColonialKorea,1920-1925, Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1988) inKorean Studies, Vol. 14, 1990

Review of Yur-Bok Lee, West Goes East: Paul Georg Von Möllendorff and Great Power Imperialisiam Late Yi Korea (Honolulu: University ofHawaii Press, 1988) in Journal of Korean Studies, Vol. 7, 1990.

Review of Donald N. Clark ed., Korea Briefing, 1991 (Boulder: WestviewPress, 1991), in Journal of Asian and African Studies (Leiden: E.J.Brill), Summer 1992.

Review of Robert A. Scalapino, The Politics of Development:Perspectives on Twentieth-Century Asia (Harvard University Press, 1989)in Korean Studies, 16 (1992).

Review of John Chay, Diplomacy of Asymmetry: Korean-American Relationsto 1910 (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1990), in The Journal of Korean Studies, Vol. 8, 1992.

Feature Review of Gina Barnes, China, Korea and Japan: The Rise of Civilization in East Asia (London: Thames and Hudson, 1994), in History: Review of New Books (Winter, [OE]94).

Peter H. Lee, ed., Sourcebook of Korean Civilization, Vol. II (ColumbiaUniversity Press, 1996), in Pacific Affairs (Winter 1998).
Gi-Wook Shin, Peasant Protest and Social Change in Colonial Korea (University of Washington Press, 1996), in The American HistoricalReview, December 1998.

Book Reviews - Short (1-2 pages)

Review of Harold F. Cook, Korea's 1884 Incident (Seoul: Royal Asiatic Society, 1972), in Pacific Affairs, Vancouver, B.C., Vol. 46, No. 1,Spring 1973.

Review of Dae-Sook Suh and Chae-Jin Lee, ed., Political Leadership inKorea (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1976), inJournal of Asian Studies, Ann Arbor, Vol. 38, No. 2, February 1979.

Review of Yong-Ha Shin, Tongnip hyophoe yon'gu (Seoul: Ilchogak,1976), in Journal of Korean Studies, University of Washington, Seattle,Vol. I,1979.

Review of Louis Allen, The End of the War in Asia (New York:Beckman/Esanu Publishers, Inc., 1979), in the American HistoricalReview, October 1979.

Review of James B. Palais, Politics and Policy in Traditional Korea (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1975), in Journal ofAsian Studies, November, 1980.

Review of Basil Entwistle, Japan's Decisive Decade (Bridgeport, CT: Grosvenor Books, 1985), in History: Review of New Books, Vol. 13, No. 7, July-August, 1985.

Review of Carl T. Smith, Chinese Christians: Elites, Middlemen, andthe Church in in Hong Kong (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986), in History: Review of New Books, Vol. 14, No. 5, May-June, 1986.

Review of Fred C. Bohm and Robert P. Swartout, Jr., ed., Naval Surgeonin Yi Korea. (Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, Universityof California, 1984); and Robert R. Swartout, Jr., ed., An AmericanAdviser in Late Yi Korea (University City: University of AlabamaPress, 1984), in Journal of Asian Studies (Berkeley: University ofCalifornia Press, Vol. 46, No. 4, 1987).

Review of Brian E. McKnight, ed., Law and the State in Traditional EastAsia (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1987) in History: Reviewof New Books, Vol. 16, No. 1, Fall 1987.

Review of Frank K. Upham, Law and Social Change in Postwar Japan(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987) in History: Reviewof New Books, Vol. 17, No. 1, Fall 1988.

Review of Michael Weiner, The Origins of the Korean Community in Japan,1910-1923 Atlantic Highland, N.J.: Humanities Press International, 1989) in Pacific Affairs (November, 1989)

Review of James R. Bartholomew, The Formation of Science in Japan (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989) in History: Review of NewBooks, Summer, 1990.

Review of Carter Eckert, et al, Korea Old and New: A History (Seoul: Ilchogak, 1990), forthcoming in Pacific Affairs (Vancouver, B.C.)

Review of Edwin H. Graegert, Landownership under Colonial Rule:Korea's Japanese Experience, 1910-1935 (University of Hawaii Press,1994) in Pacific Affairs (Winter, 1996)

Review of Dennis L. McNamara, Trade and Transformation in Korea, 1876- 1945 (Westview Press, 1996) in Pacific Affairs, Summer 1997.

Review of Sonia Ryang, North Koreans in Japan Today: Language,Ideology and Identity (Westview Press, 1997), the Journal of Asian Studies (Fall,1997).

Review of Yasunori Fukuoka, Lives of Young Koreans in Japan, in Journal of Asian Studies, Winter, 2000-2001.

Review of Sangmie Choi Schellstede, Comfort Women Speak, (Holmes and Meier, 2002), in Pacific Affairs, Fall 2001.Review of Woon Joe Kang,The Korean Struggle for International Identity, in American Historical Review, December, 2006*

* (Sundry columns and commentaries by me on current affairs in Indian, Korea, Japanese, and American newspapers and magazines have appeared intermittently since 1961.)