Jonathan W. Best is Professor of Art History at Wesleyan University.
Best’s book is a watershed in the study of Paekche outside of Korea
and perhaps will give further impetus to the growth of studies on
traditional Korea in the West… Whether this is on the horizon or
not, Best’s work will stand alone as both a scrupulously written
history of a little understood kingdom, and a scholarly and
informed partial translation of one of the most important works in
the study of Korea.
*Korean Quarterly*
Rarely has the East Asian scholarly world seen the publication of a
work on its early history as important as Jonathan Best’s History
of the Early Korean Kingdom of Paekche. This history promises to be
a definitive text of early Korean history and an important piece of
the puzzle for scholars who are seeking to understand East Asia at
the start of the first millennium.
*Journal of Asiatic Studies*
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