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ix IHAVE RELIED ON MY OWN RESEARCH, teaching experience, and a large body of secondary literature on Korea to write this book. In addition, I owe a heavy debt to my colleagues in Korean Studies from a number of different fields. Without their work,a synthetic narrative such as this would be impossible to write. To cite exact references throughout the text would be at cross-purposes with my desire to shape a simple and reader-friendly narrative, one that can be used in college -level courses as well as by the general reader. Many of the analytical observations that appear in this book are not mine, but I have brought them together with my own understanding of how the narrative of modern Korean history should be shaped. Where I use another scholar’s ideas, where I paraphrase, analyze, or otherwise owe a substantial debt to the work of others in shaping a paragraph, I have cited the author and year of publication at the end of the sentence. Where I have quoted directly, I cite author, date of publication, and page numbers. Readers need only consult the references at the back of this volume to find publication titles. Of course I am solely responsible for all mistakes of fact and my thematic shaping of this short narrative. This project was made possible by a timely Korea Foundation Advanced Research Grant. I am grateful to the Korea Foundation for their support throughout the years. Very simply, this grant and the encouragement and commitment of Patricia Crosby at the University of Hawai‘i Press made this project possible. I must also acknowledge the invaluable help and inspiration provided by close colleagues . Special thanks go to my fellow traveler in the recent Korean past, Carter Eckert, whose friendship and good humor have always sustained me. John Duncan also provided encouragement and advice at crucial moments as well as a critical reading of the manuscript. A further debt is owed to two anonymous readers for the University of Hawai‘i Press for their honest, sometimes brutal, but enormously helpful criticism. Of course no project emerges half as well without expert and meticulous copyediting; for this I wish to thank Margaret Black. And my thanks as well to Norman Thorpe, who by sharing his enormous collection of historical photographs, some published herein, helped enliven my imagination and hopefully my prose. Over the years my interaction with and the work of a wonderful group of Koreanists inspired the writing of this book. The writing and consultations with PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS • • • • • • x Preface and Acknowledgments Bruce Cumings, Gari Ledyard, Donald Clark, Vipan Chandra, Gi-Wook Shin, Clark Sorensen, Roger Janelli, Linda Lewis, Laurel Kendall, Edward Shultz, Kenneth Wells, Eun Mee Kim,Wayne Patterson,Andrew Nahm, Chae Jin Lee, Han Kyo Kim, Roger Janelli, Chŏng Chinsŏk, Choi Jang Jip, Kim Min Hwan, Lew Young Ick, Donald Baker, Katie Oh, Park Chung-shin, Nancy Ablemann, Alan Delissan, Koen De Ceuster, Boudewijn Walraven, Andre Schmid, Hwang Kyung Moon, Charles Armstrong, Yoo Sun-Young, Ch’oe Kyong Hee, Hong Kal, Chiho Sawada, were all indispensable in the crafting of this book. Where I have used their ideas, I hope I have represented them accurately. As every author knows well, friends and family play crucial roles in our often lonely pursuit. To my siblings Jim, Mary, and Sue, I can only continue to offer my gratitude for a lifetime of support and love. Special friends Carolyn and Jim Moore and Ellen Brennan also eased my labors by being willing to listen endlessly to my laments. And Sue Hathaway and Scott O’Bryan provided hours of companionship and encouragement at particularly difficult times in the writing of this book. I am profoundly grateful for their understanding and caring. I have dedicated this book to the memory of my graduate school mentor, Jim Palais. If the past is a foreign country, he urged me to travel there and taught me how to decipher its language. I only wish he was still here to take credit for whatever contributions this book makes to the field. ...

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