William Franklin Sands was the highest-ranking foreign adviser in the Korean government in the twilight years of the Choson dynasty. His book, entitled Undiplomatic Memories, first published in 1930 and now nearly a century old, has been the seemingly definitive account of his life and career in Seoul. However, his Papers in the St. Charles Borromeo Seminary outside … [Read More]
Author: Wayne Patterson
Selected publications by Wayne Patterson
- William Franklin Sands in Late Choson Korea, 1896–1904: At the Deathbed of Empire, Lexington Books 2021
- In the Service of His Korean Majesty: William Nelson Lovatt, the Pusan Customs, and Sino-Korean Relations, 1876–1888, Univ of California Berkeley Institute of East Asian Studies 2012
- The Ilse: First-Generation Korean Immigrants in Hawaii, 1903-1973, University of Hawai'i Press 2000
- The Golden Mountain: The Autobiography of a Korean Immigrant, 1895-1960, University of Illinois Press 1996
- The Korean Frontier in America: Immigration to Hawaii, 1896–1910, University of Hawai'i Press 1994