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The comfort women hoax : a fake memoir, North Korean spies, and hit squads in the academic swamp / J. Mark Ramseyer & Jason M. Morgan.
Van Pelt Library D810.C698 R36 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ramseyer, J. Mark, 1954- author.
- Morgan, Jason Michael, 1977- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Comfort women--Korea--Historiography.
- Comfort women.
- Comfort women--Japan--Historiography.
- World War, 1939-1945--Women--Korea--Historiography.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Prostitution--Japan--History--20th century.
- Prostitution.
- Ramseyer, J. Mark, 1954-.
- Ramseyer, J. Mark.
- College teachers--United States.
- College teachers.
- Historians--United States--Biography.
- Historians.
- Academic freedom--United States.
- Academic freedom.
- Education, Higher--Political aspects.
- Education, Higher.
- Women--Historiography.
- Japan.
- Korea.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies
- History
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 369 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Other Title:
- Fake memoir, North Korean spies, and hit squads in the academic swamp
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Encounter Books, [2024]
- Summary:
- "Both of the authors found themselves savagely "canceled" by their peers in Japanese studies programs in the U.S. for refusing to follow the Woke line on the World War II "comfort women." Contrary to the party line in American humanities departments, the women were not slaves. They were prostitutes. And the notion that they were anything but prostitutes owes itself to a hoax perpetrated by a Japanese communist author in the 1980s. Any serious Japanese intellectual (of any political perspective) understands this, and many intellectuals in South Korea understand it as well. It is a mark of the intellectual bankruptcy of the hyper-politicized humanities departments that they continue to cling to this 1980s-vintage hoax"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The Anatomy of a Canceling
- The Comfort Stations
- The Hoax Builds
- The Hoax Collapses
- The Attacks Redux
- The Korean Council
- Making Sense of the Canceling
- Academic Freedom.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Ramseyer, J. Mark. Comfort women hoax
- ISBN:
- 9781641773454
- 1641773456
- OCLC:
- 1401976292
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