April 7, 2006
China Fires Academic Over Plagiarism
China's Tsinghua University has fired the assistant dean of its School of Medicine following accusations that the professor plagiarized an article from an American medical journal, and may have fabricated work experience listed on his résumé.
The accusations first surfaced last November on a blog set up by a local scholar, Fang Zhouzhi, which is devoted to exposing cases of plagiarism and academic corruption.
Mr. Fang accused the medical-school official, Liu Hui,
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