International Studies at Sungkyunkwan University in Korea for three years. Palais continued his activity at the University of Washington with editing, writing, and part-time teaching in the Korea Studies Program until hospitalized with his final illness in the spring of 2005. Selected works In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about James Palais, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 10+ works in 50+ publications in 3 languages and 1,300+ library holdings. Politics and Policy in Traditional Korea (1975) Korea on the Eve of the Kangwa Treaty, 1873-1876 (1989) Confucian statecraft and Korean Institutions: Yu Hyŏngwŏn and the late Chosŏn Dynasty (1995) Palais, James B.. 1995. “A Search for Korean Uniqueness”. Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 55 (2). Harvard-Yenching Institute: 409–25. doi:10.2307/2719348. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2719348. Views on Korean Social History (1998) Honors Yonsei University, Yongjae Paek Nakchun Award, 1995. Association for Asian Studies (AAS), John Whitney Hall Book Prize, 1998. AAS Lifetime Achievement Award, 2001. The James B. Palais Professorship of Korean History at the University of Washington has been established in his honor. AAS James B. Palais Book Prize The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Northeast Asia Council (NEAC) presents the James B. Palais Book Prize, which has been awarded annually since 2010 for an outstanding English language book published on Korea. Notes References Sŏnggyun'gwan Taehakkyo. (2002). James B. Palais. Seoul: Tong Asia Haksurwŏn. OCLC 259679875 External links Koreanists profile Korea Herald obituary Sungkyun Times profile 2002 profile by Chris Jordan Editorial on G.W. Bush's Korea policy, by Palais 1934 births 2006 deaths Harvard University alumni Historians of Korea Koreanists People from Brookline, Massachusetts University of Washington faculty Yale University alumni