Download or read book The Korean Frontier in America written by Wayne Patterson and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1994-08-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Korean immigration to Hawaii provides a striking glimpse of the inner workings of Yi-dynasty Korea in its final decade. It is a picture of confusion, functionalism, corruption, oppression, and failure of leadership at all levels of government. Patterson suggests that the weakness of the Korean government on the issue of emigration made it easier for Japanese imperialism to succeed in Korea. He also revises the standard interpretation of Japanese foreign policy by suggestion that prestige—the need to prevent the United States from passing a Japanese exclusion act—as well as security was a motivating factor in the establishment of a protectorate over Korea in 1905. In the process he uncovers a heretofore hidden link between Japanese imperialism in Korea and Japanese-American relations at the turn of the century. The author has made extensive use of archival materials in Korea, Japan, Hawaii, and Washington, D.C. in researching a subject that has been neglected both in the United States and Korea. The study presents new information on the subject along with a keen analysis and innovative interpretation in a readable and accessible style. The work will be of significant value to specialists in Korean history, Korean-American relations, Japanese history, Japanese-Korean relations, U.S.-Japanese relations, Hawaiian history, and U.S. diplomatic history.
Download or read book The Korean Frontier in America written by Wayne K. Patterson and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Korean Frontier in America written by Wayne Patterson and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Korean immigration to Hawaii provides a striking glimpse of the inner workings of Yi-dynasty Korea in its final decade. It is a picture of confusion, functionalism, corruption, oppression, and failure of leadership at all levels of government. Patterson suggests that the weakness of the Korean government on the issue of emigration made it easier for Japanese imperialism to succeed in Korea. He also revises the standard interpretation of Japanese foreign policy by suggestion that prestige—the need to prevent the United States from passing a Japanese exclusion act—as well as security was a motivating factor in the establishment of a protectorate over Korea in 1905. In the process he uncovers a heretofore hidden link between Japanese imperialism in Korea and Japanese-American relations at the turn of the century. The author has made extensive use of archival materials in Korea, Japan, Hawaii, and Washington, D.C. in researching a subject that has been neglected both in the United States and Korea. The study presents new information on the subject along with a keen analysis and innovative interpretation in a readable and accessible style. The work will be of significant value to specialists in Korean history, Korean-American relations, Japanese history, Japanese-Korean relations, U.S.-Japanese relations, Hawaiian history, and U.S. diplomatic history.
Download or read book The Korean Frontier in America Immigration to Hawaii 1896 1910 written by Wayne K. Patterson and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 1474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Korean Americans written by Jennifer C. Martin and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the history of Korean immigration to America, including the reasons for emigration, how Korean Americans have been treated by American society, and the influence of Korean culture on America.
Download or read book Korean Americans A Concise History written by Edward T. Chang and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Korean Americans: A Concise History tells the untold stories of the pioneering immigrants, the newly discovered tale of the first Koreatown USA, and about the first Korean aviator. The textbook conveys the Korean American experience by highlighting important moments, people, and incidents that defines this small community. The book takes readers on a journey starting with the beginning of Korean immigration to the United States, to present day issues, trends, and identity.
Download or read book Korean American Relations written by Yur-Bok Lee and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Built upon the highly successful volume One Hundred Years of Korean-American Relations, 1882-1982, this book describes Korea's importance to the United States and the development of the current relationship. The ramifications of this relationship are evident by the facts that South Korea now constitutes America's seventh largest trading partner and 37,000 American troops remain stationed there on alert. North Korea, however, continues to harbor a deep resentment of the United States and its southern neighbor and maintains the fifth largest standing army in the world, situated just north of the world's most fortified demarcation line at the 38th parallel.
Download or read book The Korean Americans written by Tamra Orr and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the history of Korean immigration to the United States, and covers their customs and traditions, and the impact they have had on American culture.
Download or read book Race for Empire written by Takashi Fujitani and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Race for Empire offers a profound and challenging reinterpretation of nationalism, racism, and wartime mobilization during the Asia-Pacific war. In parallel case studies—of Japanese Americans mobilized to serve in the United States Army and of Koreans recruited or drafted into the Japanese military—T. Fujitani examines the U.S. and Japanese empires as they struggled to manage racialized populations while waging total war. Fujitani probes governmental policies and analyzes representations of these soldiers—on film, in literature, and in archival documents—to reveal how characteristics of racism, nationalism, capitalism, gender politics, and the family changed on both sides. He demonstrates that the United States and Japan became increasingly alike over the course of the war, perhaps most tellingly in their common attempts to disavow racism even as they reproduced it in new ways and forms.
Download or read book Koreans in America written by Wayne Patterson and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1992 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys the immigration of Koreans to America from 1903 to the present time and identifies the contributions of individual Koreans to American life and culture.
Download or read book Korean American Experience in the United States written by Christian Kim and published by The Hermit Kingdom Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A very exciting book on Koreans in the United States!" This book is very helpful for understanding the nature and the history of the Korean community in the USA. There are over one million Korean-Americans in the USA. Despite the small number and a short immigration history, Korean-Americans have been able to contribute to America in important ways. Korean-American students generally comprise the biggest block of ethnic minorities in Ivy League universities and other leading research universities. The current Yale University Law School Dean is Korean-American. A Korean-American has been the leader of the biggest Presbyterian denomination in the USA. Korean-Americans can be found all over the USA in every profession, and they have been very successful. And, perhaps, the Korean-American community is the most evangelical Christian ethnic community in America. In fact, many InterVarsity Christian Fellowship and Campus Crusade for Christ leaders in America's major universities are Korean-Americans. How is it that Korean-Americans came to play such an important role in the American society, particularly in the area of religion? This is a very good book to understand what makes the Korean-Americans "tick." Particularly insightful are the ways in which Christian Kim, the author, captures general patterns for the Korean-Americans and their successes. This is by far the best introductory book on Korean-Americans in the market and will be very useful for use in classroom settings, both on the high school and college levels, in courses dealing with ethnic studies and the Asian experience in American history and society.
Download or read book Han in the Upper Left written by and published by Chin Music Press Inc.. This book was released on 2016-05-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This in-depth look at one of the fastest-growing immigrant groups in the Pacific Northwest provides a much-needed overview of the Korean American experience as well as moving personal anecdotes. Graphs offer information about Korean immigration patterns over time, while black-and-white portraits reveal the people behind the statistics. The Korean American Historical Society is a nonprofit organization founded in 1985 to enrich the collective memory of Korean Americans by collecting, maintaining, and transmitting their stories.
Download or read book Asian American written by David Palumbo-Liu and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that the invention of Asian American identities serves as an index to the historical formation of modern America. By tracing constructions of "Asian American" to an interpenetrating dynamic between Asia and America, the author obtains a deeper understanding of key issues in American culture, history, and society. The formation of America in the twentieth century has had everything to do with "westward expansion" across the "Pacific frontier" and the movement of Asians onto American soil. After the passage of the last piece of anti-Asian legislation in the 1930's, the United States found it had to grapple with both the presence of Asians already in America and the imperative to develop its neocolonial interests in East Asia. The author argues that, under these double imperatives, a great wall between "Asian" and "American" is constructed precisely when the two threatened to merge. Yet the very incompleteness of American identity has allowed specific and contingent fusion of "Asian" and "American" at particular historical junctures. From the importation of Asian labor in the mid-nineteenth century, the territorialization of Hawaii and the Philippines in the late-nineteenth century, through wars with Japan, Korea, and Vietnam and the Cold War with China, to today's Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation group, the United States in the modern age has seen its national identity as strongly attached to the Pacific. As this has taken place, so has the formation of a variety of Asian American identities. Each contains a specific notion of America and reveals a particular conception of "Asian" and "American." Complicating the usual notion of "identity politics" and drawing on a wide range of writingssociological, historical, cultural, medical, anthropological, geographic, economic, journalistic, and politicalthe author studies both how the formation of these identifications discloses the response of America to the presence of Asians and how Asian Americans themselves have inhabited these roles and resisted such categorizations, inventing their own particular subjectivities as Americans.
Download or read book A Thematic Interpretation of US History written by Bong Joong Kim and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is aimed at two groups of readers in particular. The first group is American readers, since some Americans may be interested in reading about how their history is interpreted from a Korean historian's perspective. Due to the position and power of the United States in the world, there are various ways in which historians around the world, not to mention American historians, understand and analyze US history. The second target reader group comprises the Koreans, since the United States is a mirror that reflects Korea's past, present, and future. In that respect, looking at American history from a Korean perspective would help Koreans understand the nation's past and present.This book tries to find answers to three questions that the author have in American history. First, many Americans view their country as a "country of liberty." National pride often makes people associate their country with a value they themselves admire. It is uncommon, however, for countries to think of their country as a synonym for specific values--a term that represents it, as does liberty in the United States. Hence, it is worth tracing America's various identities across the entire history of the United States, where Americans have come to regard their country as a country of liberty and how it has become established. Second, the United States has been overwhelmed by regional conflicts since the beginning of the Union. The Civil War, which broke out in 1861, was a tragedy born out of regional conflicts. We have witnessed countless cases in world history where regional conflicts and emotions interfered with a country's progress, and some of these conflicts have had tragic consequences. Korea is no exception in this regard. Therefore, it is worth asking how the United States overcame the tragedy of the Civil War.Finally, it can be said that the American people have admired only a few US presidents in the history of their nation. Asking American students to name the five most respected presidents would be easy, but it would not be comfortable to ask for ten. If the United States' presidents are classified as good and not-so-good for convenience, there will be far more not-so-good presidents than good presidents. That being said, why do most Americans think presidential leadership has played an essential role in American democracy and prosperity? These questions will be the primary focus of this book, which does not follow the conventional writing style of a history book that is written in chronological order. Instead, this is an interpretative history of the United States, with several themes: presidential leadership and American democracy, regional conflicts, frontier experience, multiculturalism, and foreign relations. By considering such themes, this book provides a retrospective look at the history of the United States. Also, unlike the traditional method of using the third-person pronoun, in this book, this book uses the first-person pronoun--because author's experiences and observations serve as an essential part of the contents.
Download or read book Asian american Education written by Meyer Weinberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asian-American Education: Historical Background and Current Realities fills a gap in the study of the social and historical experiences of Asians in U.S. schools. It is the first historical work to provide American readers with information about highly individual ethnic groups rather than viewing distinctly different groups as one vague, global entity such as "Asians." The people who populate each chapter are portrayed as active participants in their history rather than as passive victims of their culture. Each of the twelve country-specific chapters begins with a description of the kind of education received in the home country, including how widely available it was, how equal or unequal the society was, and what were the circumstances under which the emigration of children from the country occurred. The latter part of each of these chapters deals with the education these children have received in the United States. Throughout the book, instead of dwelling on a relatively narrow range of children who perform spectacularly well, the author tries to discover the educational situation typical among average students. The order of chapters is roughly chronological in terms of when the first sizable numbers of immigrants came from a specific country.
Download or read book The United States in the Korean War written by Don Lawson and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Korean Americans A Concise History written by Edward T. Chang and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-05-17 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Korean Americans: A Concise History tells the untold stories of the pioneering immigrants, the newly discovered tale of the first Koreatown USA, and about the first Korean aviator. The textbook conveys the Korean American experience by highlighting important moments, people, and incidents that defines this small community. The book takes readers on a journey starting with the beginning of Korean immigration to the United States, to present day issues, trends, and identity.
