By writing this article, I wish first to correct a current consensual misrepresentation, namely the fact that many media outlets are frequently lumping all criticisms of the Beida reform plan under the title "opposition to the reform." This is a grave misrepresentation. The title of the interviews with Zhang Weiying, a person in charge at…

After Beijing University produced the first and second drafts (subsequent discussions are based on the second draft) of the "Beijing University Teachers' Engagements and Promotions System Reform Plan," which aroused sharp debates, Zhongshan University stated that the standing committee of its university party committee had examined and approved…

"As far as all the universities in today?s Chinese societies are concerned, the fundamental problem of universities operated by Chinese is that basically there can be no mention of cultural self-confidence or cultural consciousness; or in other words, they have far from established a Chinese idea of university." The fundamental mission of Chinese…