Roseann Lake
Auteur van Leftover in China: The Women Shaping the World's Next Superpower
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When called out on this, Lake claimed she deliberately chose not to read Hong Fincher's work when it came out in 2014 because she wanted to "remain focused" on her own work. If that's the case, it shows an extremely poor attitude to research - it is the duty of a good researcher to engage critically with work that's come before, and that engagement is ESPECIALLY valuable if works are taking their subject matter to different conclusions. Lake is apparently privileged enough to believe that her audience won't be put off by her openly admitting she has failed to read key texts on the subject she claims to have expertise on... unfortunately, in my case at least, she's wrong.
A deeply unfortunate book which should be a source of embarrassment to both the author and the publisher. Nobody is saying that there can't be multiple books on this subject, but Lake has offered a pitiful excuse for erasing the work of someone whose labour she clearly DID use, and she's now benefiting from it with complete impunity. Yuk.
(Further reading: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/02/21/scholar-says-new-book-chinas-left...… (meer)