James Edward Hoare (born 1943) is a British

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and

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specialising in Korean and Chinese studies, and a career

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in the

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Academia

Dr. Hoare is a graduate of London's

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(SOAS). He has long been a member of the Anglo-Korean Society, the Korean Branch of the

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, and the

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

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

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in the North Korean capital.Kyodo News International
"Britain appoints James Hoare as N. Korea charge,"
BNET. February 5, 2001. 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.

Selected work

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about James Hoare,

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encompasses roughly 30+ works in 60+ publications in 3 languages and 4,000+ library holdings. WorldCat Identities

Hoare, James
/ref> ;Books * 2018 ''- Culture, Power and Politics in Treaty-Port Japan 1854-1899'' (cloth) *2015 - ''Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Korea'' * 2013 - ''Critical Readings on North and South Korea'' (cloth) *2012 - ''Historical Dictionary of Democratic People's Republic of Korea'' * 2005 - ''A Political and Economic Dictionary of East Asia'' * 2007
''Korea: The Past and Present''
with Susan Pares. London:

Global Oriental Global Oriental is an imprint of the Dutch publishing house Brill.http://www.brill.nl/about/imprints It used to be trade publishing company based in Kent, United Kingdom. It is the publisher of scholarly books on Japan and East Asia in fields su ...

. (cloth) * 1999 - ''Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits,'' Vol. III. London:

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. (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. * 1999 -
''Korea: a Historical and Cultural Dictionary''
with

Richard Rutt Cecil Richard Rutt CBE (27 August 192527 July 2011) was an English Roman Catholic priest and a former Anglican bishop. Rutt spent almost 20 years of his life serving as an Anglican missionary in South Korea, a country for which he developed a d ...

. London:

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. * 1994 - ''Japan's Treaty Ports and Foreign Settlements: The Uninvited Guests 1858-1899.'' London: Curzon. * 1994 - Nish, Ian and James E. Hoare, eds
''Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits,'' Vol. II.
London: RoutledgeCurzon. *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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