Review: Asia: Han Unbound
| Published date | 01 September 1998 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070209805300323 |
| Date | 01 September 1998 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
Reviews
ca's
foremost
diplomatic
historians,
used
to
craft
a
work
of
outstanding
the
author
of
Across
the
Pacific
and
synthesis.
His
goal
is
to
convey
the
Power
and
Culture:
The
Japanese
triumph
and
tragedy
of
South
American
War,
1941-1945.
This
Korea's
industrialization,
and
the
volume
is
the
product
of
two
mono-
word
Han
in
the
title
portrays
the
graphs
the
author
originally
pub-
ambiguity
associated
with
that
revo-
lished
in
Japanese.
Its
two
recurring
lution:
it
refers
both
to
South
Korea
themes
are
the
cultural
dimensions
and
to the
Korean
cultural
expres-
of
Japan's
relations
with
the outside
sion
of
ressentiment.
world
and the
overall
inability
of
its
Lie
argues
that
land
reform
estab-
foreign policy-makers,
with
the
lished
a
critical
base
for
Korean
tragic
exception
of
the 1931-45
era,
modernization
and
that
economic
to
create
a
broader
sense
of
Japan's
development
was
accelerated
in
the
international
purpose.
Iriye
criti-
196
0s
by
a
series
of
contingent
cizes
postwar
Japanese
politicians
external
factors
-
the
1965
normal-
for
not
making
a
more
significant
ization
of
relations
with
Japan,
contribution
to world
order and
Korean
diaspora
networks,
and
calls
on
them
to
reconceptualize
United
States
procurement
during
foreign
affairs
beyond
narrow
eco-
the
Vietnam
War.
nomic and
strategic self-interest.
In
Protectionism
was
important
as
a
world
which
is
becoming
increas-
well.
In
the
1970s
the military
gov-
ingly
interlinked,
Iriye
recommends
ernment
insulated
the
domestic
that
the
Japanese
people
develop
market
from
foreign
competition,
more historical
perspective
on
their
provided
incentives
for
private
firms
past
and
'identify
with
those
people to
expand
production,
and
facilitat-
and
those
forces
everywhere
that
ed
the exploitation
of
Korea's
major
promote
greater openness,
interde- comparative
advantage,
cheap
pendence,
and
communication
labour.
across
national
boundaries'
(p
189).
The
state
was
unable
to
contain
the
contradictions
inherent
in
the
HAN
UNBOUND
rapid
development
process,
and
in
The
political
economy
of
South the
next
decade
demands
for
Korea
democratization
grew
from
a
coali-
John
Lie
tion
of
forces
which
included
stu-
Stanford:
Stanford
University
Press,
dents,
workers,
and
Christians.
As
1998,
xx,
256
pp,
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the
author
points
out,
the
interna-
tional
conditions
which
made
Lie
has
produced
a
fine
example
of
Korea
the
envy
of
many
developing
how secondary
materials
can
be
countries
no
longer
exist,
and
the
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