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"Times New Roman",serif">Professor Baker:<br>
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Whatever your opinion of Brian Myers is as a scholar, I think we
need to take seriously the evidence that he provides which
indicates the strong possibility that Charles Armstrong's book
<span class="moz-txt-tag"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">*</span></span><span
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Tyranny<span
class="moz-txt-tag">*</span></span> may be seriously
flawed. I think it is incumbent upon us as a community of
scholars to find out whether these claims are indeed true and
not to shoot the messenger.<br>
<br>
Sheila Miyoshi Jager</span></p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/15/2016 11:25 AM, Don Baker wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><font style="font-family: Helvetica;" size="4">I
wouldn’t trust Brian Myers to evaluate someone else’s
scholarship. He actually posted on his blog a while back a
recommendation to readers to trust a totally concocted
“account” of the May 18, 1980, massacre in Kwangju that
claimed that the whole incident was caused by North Korean
agents who had infiltrated Kwangju before May 18: <span
lang="EN-CA">Daniel Kim (Kim Taeryŏng) Y<i>ŏksarosŏ ŭi 5.18:
5.18 chaep’an pŏmniŭi mosun </i>[Looking at May 18 in
historical perspective: Legal contradictions in the trials
related to the May 18 incident- (Seoul: Pibong Books, 2013)</span> Myers
went on to assert on his blog that "there is evidence or
testimony t<span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35);">o back up the
claim of DPRK </span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35);">involvement.</span><font
color="#232323">”</font> He has now removed that post from
his blog, so maybe he realized how ridiculous his assertion
was. (The original posting was at <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://sthelepress.com/index.php/2016/06/14/recommendation-may-18th-as-history-2013/">http://sthelepress.com/index.php/2016/06/14/recommendation-may-18th-as-history-2013/</a></font>
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<div><font size="4">Don Baker</font></div>
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Don Baker
<div>Professor</div>
<div>Department of Asian Studies </div>
<div>University of British Columbia </div>
<div>Vancouver, Canada V6T 1Z2 </div>
<div><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:don.baker@ubc.ca">don.baker@ubc.ca</a></div>
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<hr id="stopSpelling">From: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jiyulkim@gmail.com">jiyulkim@gmail.com</a><br>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 00:09:00 -0400<br>
To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:koreanstudies@koreanstudies.com">koreanstudies@koreanstudies.com</a><br>
Subject: [KS] Re-revised posting "Revoking a Recommendation"<br>
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<div style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12.8px;">[NOTE
TO ADMINISTRATOR: please discard two earlier versions and
review this for posting]</div>
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<div style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12.8px;">I came
across this recent posting by B. R. Myers revoking his
recommendation for Charles Armstrong's <i
style="box-sizing:border-box;">Tyranny of the Weak</i> (2013)<i
style="box-sizing:border-box;">.</i> Myers' revocation
is, for me, unprecedented.</div>
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style="box-sizing:border-box;">
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<div style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12.8px;">Myers
compares Armstrong's <i style="box-sizing:border-box;">Tyranny </i>with Balazs
Szalontai's <i style="box-sizing:border-box;">Kim Il Sung
in the Khrushchev Era</i> (2005)<i
style="box-sizing:border-box;">. </i>He gives detailed
examples why he can't support the book. If there is any
truth to what Myers says then it is all very disturbing
since Armstrong's books are widely admired and used.</div>
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style="box-sizing:border-box;">
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<div style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12.8px;">I
wonder what others think. Myers' post can be found at </div>
<div style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12.8px;"><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://sthelepress.com/"
target="_blank"
style="box-sizing:border-box;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">http://sthelepress.com/</a></div>
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<div style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12.8px;">Jiyul
Kim</div>
<div style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12.8px;">Oberlin
College</div>
<div style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12.8px;">Oberlin,
Ohio</div>
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Sheila Miyoshi Jager
Professor of East Asian Studies
Oberlin College
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