Emanuel Pastreich (born October 16, 1964) is an American professor, director, and polyglot who is an international relations expert and serves as the president of the Asia Institute,[1] a think tank with offices in Washington DC, Tokyo, Seoul and Hanoi.

[15][16][17][18] He is fluent in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean and has stressed the importance of Asia for the United States in his political writings.

[26] He also worked as advisor for international relations to the governor of Chungnam Province (2007-2008) and conducted numerous research projects with Korean science institutes.

[27][28][29] His best-known book is I Shall Fear No Evil (2020) [30]which consists of a series of major speeches from his 2020 presidential campaign.

His other writings in English include the books The Novels of Park Jiwon: Translations of Overlooked Worlds,[31] a collection of the novels of a Korean pre-modern author, The Visible Vernacular: Vernacular Chinese and the Emergence of a Literary Discourse on Popular Narrative in Edo Japan , a study of the reception of Chinese vernacular literature in Japan, Earth Management: A Dialogue on Ancient Korean Wisdom and its Lessons for a New Earth,[32] and his autobiographical novel Wrestling with Shadows.

ISBN 978-89-92973-29-8 A list of articles published online by Pastreich can be found on this web page.