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• W1973584504 abstract "Book Reviews227 Sungjoo Han, The Failure of Democracy in South Korea, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974, 240 pp. $10. Selig S. Harrison, The Widening Gulf: Asian Nationalism and American Policy, New York: The Free Press, 1978, 468 pp. $15.95. Michael Keon, Korean Phoenix: A Nation from the Ashes, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall International, 1977, 234 pp. Joungwon Alexander Kim, Divided Korea: The Politics ofDevelopment, 1945-1972, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard East Asian Monographs, distributed by Harvard University Press, 1975, 471 pp., $8.50. Readers of The New Yorker may remember that Harold Rosenberg, the late art critic of this magazine, once said: I should like to point out that in dealing with new things there is a question that precedes that of good or bad. I refer to the question, What is it?' In the case of the four new, or relatively new things cited above, it appears that politics mimics art: in discussing these items, we will want not just to speak of good and bad, but also to determine, What is it? As a beginning it can be certified that three of these four new things are books, and that of those three, two are good or comparatively good, and one is bad. The fourth thing does, in form, appear to be a book. However, in politics as in art, torm can be deceiving: with this last thing we will have to ask the generic question as well. We can begin with the two goods, the books by Harrison and Han. Selig Harrison, befitting a person widely known for his journalism and his editorial work (especially for the Washington Post and the New Republic), and for his scholarly production over the past several years, describes The Widening Gulf as an attempt to unite the investigative techniques of journalism and scholarship (p. ix). This is precisely where the book succeeds, as a useful and enlightening mix of first-rate investigative journalism and careful scholarship. The study succeeds less well in also attempting a broad conceptual framework applicable to the study of nationalism in Asia (p. ix), but the problems here do not detract from the overall impression: this is a good and timely book that should be read both by scholars and by those who inform or make American policy toward the region. The best aspect of the book is a general one that underpins the entire narrative. This is Harrison's rare empathy with Asian peoples. He is a sensitive and understanding analyst who draws on his own extensive experience with Asia to write persuasively and with subtlety about topics as diverse as Indo-Pakistani relations, the effects of the Indochina War on the Asian and the American psyche, subcurrents 228Journal ofKorean Studies of discontent in the American-Japanese relationship, and current policy recommendations toward every Asian region. His acute sensitivity also leads him into areas frequently left untouched: the legacy of anti-imperialist and anti-Western sentiment in much of Asia, racism (the color line, chapter twelve), and the prospects for Korean unification . Harrison is one of the few well-connected American policy analysts capable of uncovering and discussing this subterranean Korean political current, so often dismissed in platitudes about the inevitability of two Koreas. Harrison's learned empathy informs the best chapters in the book. Chapter six (After Vietnam: Asia Alienated) is an excellent corrective to the notion that various Asian nations tremble at the thought that the U.S. might not keep its commitments after the debacle in Indochina. Harrison shows that Asian leaders in, among other nations , Japan, Indonesia, and India thought the American effort was flawed from the beginning and were glad when it ended; he also suggests that the spectacle of Western whites unloading millions of tons of high-technology firepower on Asians alienated far more people than it won over. A section in this chapter (Allies and Mercenaries) nicely depicts the strains and pressures that the dispatch of South Korean troops to Vietnam produced, both within Korea and in Asia at large. It makes interesting reading in the light of current controversies over the Soviet use of Cuban forces in Africa. The best mix of investigative journalism with..." @default.
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• W1973584504 title "<i>The Failure of Democracy in South Korea</i>, and: <i>The Widening Gulf: Asian Nationalism and American Policy</i>, and: <i>Korean Phoenix: A Nation from the Ashes</i>, and: <i>Divided Korea: The Politics of Development, 1945-1972</i> (review)" @default.
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