James Hoare

James Edward Hoare (born 1943) is a British academic and historian specialising in Korean and Chinese studies, and a career diplomat in the British Foreign Office.

For the member of the Christian Brothers, see James Aloysius Hoare.

Academia

Dr. Hoare is a graduate of London's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). He has long been a member of the Anglo-Korean Society, the Korean Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, and the Royal Society for Asian Affairs.[1]

In 2006, Dr. Hoare was President of the British Association of Korean Studies (BAKS).[2]

Foreign service

After Britain and North Korea re-established diplomatic relations in 2000, Hoare was appointed British Chargé d'affaires in Pyongyang; and his work laid the foundation for the establishment of a full embassy in the North Korean capital.[3]

Previously, Hoare had been head of the Foreign Office's North Asia and Pacific Research Group. He joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1969 and was stationed in Seoul in 1981-1984 and in Beijing in 1988-1991.[3]

Selected work

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about James Hoare, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 30+ works in 60+ publications in 3 languages and 4,000+ library holdings.[4]

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Books
  • 2018 - Culture, Power and Politics in Treaty-Port Japan 1854-1899 ISBN 978-1-898823-61-2 (cloth)
  • 2015 - Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Korea ISBN 978-0810849495
  • 2013 - Critical Readings on North and South Korea ISBN 978-9004208766 (cloth)
  • 2012 - Historical Dictionary of Democratic People's Republic of Korea ISBN 978-0810861510
  • 2005 - A Political and Economic Dictionary of East Asia ISBN 978-1857432589
  • 2007 - Korea: The Past and Present with Susan Pares. London: Global Oriental. ISBN 978-1-901903-54-6 (cloth)
  • 1999 - Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits, Vol. III. London: RoutledgeCurzon. ISBN 978-1-873410-89-9 (cloth)
  • 1999 - Embassies in the East: The Story of the British and their Embassies in China, Japan and Korea from 1859 to the Present. London: Curzon. ISBN 0-7007-0512-0
  • 1999 -- Korea: a Historical and Cultural Dictionary with Richard Rutt. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-7007-0464-4
  • 1994 - Japan's Treaty Ports and Foreign Settlements: The Uninvited Guests 1858-1899. London: Curzon. ISBN 1-873410-26-3
  • 1994 - Nish, Ian and James E. Hoare, eds. Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits, Vol. II. London: RoutledgeCurzon. ISBN 1-873410-62-X
  • 1988 - James Hoare & Susan Pares. Korea: An Introduction. Keegan Paul International. https://books.google.com/books/about/Korea.html?id=_zoOAAAAQAAJ.
Periodicals
  • 1994 - "Building Politics: the British Embassy Peking, 1949-1992," in The Pacific Review,' Vol. 7.
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See also

Notes
  1. Nahm, Andrew C. et al. (2004) Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Korea, 2nd ed., p. x.
  2. BAKS: Council Archived 2008-09-22 at the Wayback Machine
  3. Kyodo News International, "Britain appoints James Hoare as N. Korea charge," BNET. February 5, 2001.
  4. WorldCat Identities Archived 2010-12-30 at the Wayback Machine: Hoare, James
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