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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><SPAN class=964335620-08092002>></SPAN> If we
self righteously claim that we see history as multiple voices then why the cant
against some Korean historians that might want to distill their version
into a single mononarrative.....against all reason. Let them.
AFterall isn't it just another of the many voices and narratives that history
produces. <BR></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=964335620-08092002>Yes. But many people in Korea tend to
believe that this is the only true narrative. The use of the term 'kwago
ch'ongsan' tesifies to this. This meant to be the 'clean' historty while other
narratives are 'polluted'.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><SPAN class=964335620-08092002>> </SPAN>In my
reading of kwago chongsan there is a reasonable meaning of balancing
accounts.....whereby previously repressed voices are recorded on the
leger. <BR><SPAN class=964335620-08092002></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><SPAN class=964335620-08092002>The problem is that old
heresy does not necessirily behave nicely when it is promoted to a new
orthodoxy.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><SPAN class=964335620-08092002>Andrei
Lankov </SPAN></FONT><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT lang=0
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