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From the translator s Introduction The chapters in this volume, which cover a broad range of issues, including Parhae s political history, territory, international relations, trade with its neighbours, and culture, explore all of this and more, including Russian and Japanese claims about Parhae. But the main thrust here is the critical examination of Chinese assertions about Parhae and the demonstration of political, ethnic, and cultural links between Koguryo and Parhae. The research done on all sides in recent decades has brought to light considerable new evidence, particularly archaeological data. Nonetheless, that data, too, is still fragmentary and is often used to make nationalistic interpretations. The authors in this volume all recognize the problematic nature of nationalist narratives as applied to the history of Parhae Even so, it seems to me that, taken as a whole, the interpretations advanced by these authors are more sustainable than many of those advanced by Chinese scholars. It is my hope that this volume will stimulate greater interest in the history of Parhae and beyond to a more general history of the Manchurian region in early times. John B. Duncan (UCLA)
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Arthur Stockwin, OBE (awarded in 2009 for services to academic excellence and the promotion of UK-Japanese understanding), was formerly Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Reader at the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, from 1964 to 1981, then Nissan Professor of Modern Japanese Studies and Director of the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies at the University of Oxford, from 1982 to 2003. At St Antony's College, Oxford, he was Professorial Fellow from 1982 to 2003, sub-warden from 1999 to 2001 and Emeritus Fellow from 2003 to the present. His life work in Japanese Studies was recognized by the Japanese Government in 2004 with the Order of the Rising Sun Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, and in 2009 he received the Japan Foundation Award for Japanese Studies and Intellectual Exchange.
His major publications include
The Japanese Socialist Party and Neutralism (1968),
Japan: Divided Politics in a Growth Economy (1975, 4 edn [as
Governing Japan: Divided Politics in a Resurgent Economy] 2008),
Dynamic and Immobilist Politics in Japan (ed and part-author, 1988),
The Establishment of the Japanese Constitutional System (by Junji Banno, trans 1992),
The Story of Tim (1993),
Dictionary of the Modern Politics of Japan (2003),
Collected Writings of J. A. A. Stockwin (2004), and
Thirty-Odd Feet Below Belgium: An Affair of Letters in the Great War, 1915-1916 (2005).
