Comments on: Get your old books about Korea here

By: mithridates

mithridates — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:40:34 +0000

Nice! I just downloaded them all. Wow, even one of the smaller ones is 343 pages. I suppose I’ll just try to keep up a good pace of a few pages a day.

Er…we’re sure that these aren’t in text form somewhere else, right? Just checking. *^^*

By: Zonath

Zonath — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 17:11:25 +0000

The files are about 85 megs altogether. The smallest is about 3 megs, and the largest is around 50… Probably a bit too large for email. I’ve uploaded the files to my school webdisk account, and made them public, so you should be able to download them from the following address:

https://webdisk.lclark.edu/xythoswfs/webui/guffey

Let me know if there are any problems with this… just select the files and hit the ‘download’ button up top. Cheers.

By: mithridates

mithridates — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 16:41:00 +0000

Thanks Zonath. Are they small enough that you could send them through email? My email address is mithradates at gmail . com (note the slightly different spelling). If they’re too big then maybe through MSN if you use that.

By: Zonath

Zonath — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 15:49:25 +0000

Hmm… that’s odd. Maybe Google doesn’t want the downloads crossing borders because of the uncertainty of copyright laws. Maybe the download would work through Korean Google (just replace ‘.com’ with ‘.co.kr’).

By: mithridates

mithridates — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 15:31:21 +0000

I’m not able to download any of these books either. I’ve already put up a few copyright free books on the Galbijim Wiki and would like to put these up too. Anyone care to send them to me? Drop me a message here: http://wiki.galbijim.com/User_talk:Mithridates

By: Andy Jackson

Andy Jackson — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 02:50:01 +0000

Kotaji,

Blogs are what you make of them. You can tailor your writing to fit the medium you are writing in. I think you will find that what I writing at TCS Daily or in other ‘regular media’ has a much different feel than what I write here.

How about mixing politics with politics? Pollster.com, as you might guess from the name, analyzes polls. From the posts themselves, I would generally not be able to tell the personal opinions of the posters. My disappointment comes from the fact that I was expecting FiaW to be more like Pollster.com.

Now, if FiaW is a place for guys interested in history to shoot the breeze and have some fun, then I take back everything I said.

BTW, I was not just picking on Pak Noja: The Hizbollah comment just jumped out at.

By: kotaji

kotaji — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 22:02:48 +0000

As a contributor to Frog in a Well I would say that I’ve also been a little disappointed with its progress, although for somewhat different reasons to Andy. This is certainly no reflection on Konrad, who should be commended for his efforts to bring together people studying the history of East Asia in one place to provide information, insights and general bloggery. But I think that the Korea blog hasn’t yet established itself with enough regular contributors and diversity of subjects and opinions (I’d love to have written more myself, but other more pressing work has prevented me).

On the subject of mixing history and politics - I really do not see the problem here. Anyone who believes that the two are not thoroughly mixed all the time is living in fantasy land. There is no pure academic world of truth - and this is after all, a blog, not an academic journal by any means. As Robert points out above, Pak Noja is a very serious scholar of Korea history and also someone engaged with contemporary Korea. Personally I think that is admirable. If you want to disagree with his political opinions on the parallels he may draw between past and present in a blog post, then fine, that’s what the blog world tends to be about. If on the other hand you want to cast aspersions on his academic credentials then you really need to read some of his academic work and provide a critique of that.

As for Shakuhachi’s comment… well I can’t even be bothered.

Owen [kotaji]

By: jonnyh

jonnyh — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 12:05:59 +0000

I had no problem with a couple of the books when I originally saw them on the frog site. But some didn’t come through then, still don’t appear to, and I wouldn’t mind seeing them. Anybody got info for how to simply connect through a proxy?

By: Andy Jackson

Andy Jackson — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 04:00:28 +0000

Dear Leader,
As I said in the main post, I do not mind leftist writing per se. I enjoy reading that stuff all the time (heck I even read the Daily Kos regularly). Those sites and their right wing counterparts are fun and informative.

The disappointing part is that I was expecting the site to be something different. FiaW, as far as I can tell, purports itself to be a site for historical research. I would prefer it if they would use that blog for historical research and leave their personal politics for their own blogs.

I am certainly not telling them what to write, just stating my opinion of their product.

TWG,
I did not make that quote up. It was cut-n-pasted. Unless you can find a conservative blog talking about “the glorious victory of the Congressional boy-buggers,” your comparison is not valid.

But your intended point is taken. If Hezbollah were a Christain fundamentalist group and not fighting Israel, I am sure that they would not have gotten such praise. It is not the fundi part that makes them popular; it is the anti-Israeli part.

By: The_William_G

The_William_G — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 18:07:41 +0000

we also get a liberal mix of lefty hackdom like “the recent glorious victory of Hizbollah partisans.”

Now, now. I think suggesting that lefties love fundamentalist wack-jobs like Hezbollah is as unfair and untrue as someone suggesting that right-wingers love their sexual predators