Chinese Academics Consider a 'Culture of Copying'

Peking U. faculty member found to have used 100,000 words from American textbook

By JIANG XUEQIN

Beijing

All of Beijing's major newspapers recently carried a similar news item deep inside their thin pages. The Beijing Morning News, for instance, carried a short item, with no more than 100 Chinese characters, that briskly talked about how officials at Peking University...

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