James Hoare
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "For". Template:Use dmy dates James Edward Hoare Template:Postnominals (born 1943) is a British academic and historian specialising in Korean and Chinese studies, and a career diplomat in the British Foreign Office.
Academia
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, 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][4]
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]
Hoare was awarded an OBE in the 2025 New Year Honours for "services to UK interests in the Korean Peninsula".[5]
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.[6] Script error: No such module "Hatnote".
- Books
- 2018 - Culture, Power and Politics in Treaty-Port Japan 1854-1899 Template:ISBN (cloth)
- 2015 - Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Korea Template:ISBN
- 2013 - Critical Readings on North and South Korea Template:ISBN (cloth)
- 2012 - Historical Dictionary of Democratic People's Republic of Korea Template:ISBN
- 2005 - A Political and Economic Dictionary of East Asia Template:ISBN
- 2007 - Korea: The Past and Present with Susan Pares. London: Global Oriental. Template:ISBN (cloth)
- 1999 - Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits, Vol. III. London: RoutledgeCurzon. Template:ISBN (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. Template:ISBN
- 1999 -- Korea: a Historical and Cultural Dictionary with Richard Rutt. London: Routledge. Template:ISBN
- 1994 - Japan's Treaty Ports and Foreign Settlements: The Uninvited Guests 1858-1899. London: Curzon. Template:ISBN
- 1994 - Nish, Ian and James E. Hoare, eds. Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits, Vol. II. London: RoutledgeCurzon. Template:ISBN
- 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.
See also
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Notes
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- ↑ Nahm, Andrew C. et al. (2004) Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Korea, 2nd ed., p. x.
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- ↑ a b Kyodo News International, "Britain appoints James Hoare as N. Korea charge," BNET. February 5, 2001.
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