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Error-filled rewording, By
This review is from: Tyranny of the Weak: North Korea and the World, 1950-1992 (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University) (Paperback)
This book is largely an unattributed rewording of Balazs Szalontai’s book Kim Il Sung in the Khrushchev Era (2005). Armstrong was awarded the Fairbank Prize for this paraphrase, but today, 1 July 2017, he voluntarily returned it as part of his admission of plagiarism.
In the process of paraphrasing Szalontai’s book, Armstrong introduced dozens of errors. If you want to read a factual account of North Korean history I think Szalontai’s book would probably be a better choice.
In the process of paraphrasing Szalontai’s book, Armstrong introduced dozens of errors. If you want to read a factual account of North Korean history I think Szalontai’s book would probably be a better choice.
Tyranny of the Weak: North Korea and the World, 1950-1992 (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University)
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Jul 2, 2017, 3:19:07 AM PDT
Tuvinskaia Koshka says:
Here and there, the author also plagiarized some other scholars, such as Sergey Radchenko, Kathryn Weathersby, Alexandre Mansourov, Ruediger Frank, and Barry Gills.
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