Jie-Hyun Lim

South Korean historian Jie-Hyun Lim, raised under an anticommunist dictatorship, turned to Marxian thought to explain his country's development, even as he came to struggle with its Eurocentrism. As a transnational scholar working in postcommunist Poland, Lim recognised striking similarities between Korean and Polish history and politics. One realisation stood out: Both Korea and Poland—at once the "West" for Asia...