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[MW]

It was recently discovered that a professor of the Department of Sociology at Peking University had �committed serious plagiarism� in a 1998 book he wrote. Another professor of the College of Computer and Information Engineering at Hefei University of Technology was also found to have �serious cheating� in six of his thesis published in professional journals. (China Daily Hong Kong Edition, (1/24/02)

During the Fall of 2002 at a private business institute in joint venture (Qiang/Wolff, (June 2003), �China ESL: An Industry Run Amuck?�, Progress in Education, Nova Science Publications) with a 2nd tier public university in Shanghai, in a group of 60 third year students there were 6 confirmed instances of flagrant plagiarism. The administration required the students to write a letter of apology and repeat the assignment as the totality of punishment. It was explained that this is the normal method for handling such matters in Chinese middle schools and to impose any harsher punishment may jeopardize the joint venture continuing viability. (source: author's personal experience) A second teacher at the same institution also experienced plageriasm from two students. The teacher simply required the students to re-write their papers.

In a second incident during the Fall of 2002 at a private joint venture with another 2nd tier public university in Shanghai, (Qiang/Wolff (6/03) in a group of 56 first year students there were 8 confirmed instances of flagrant plagiarism. The administration required the students to write a letter of apology and repeat the assignment as the totality of punishment. (source: author's personal experience)

On 11/24/02 a letter was published by a foreign teacher at www.eslcafe.com complaining of widespread plagiarism in a public university in China.

On 14/03 Richard of Va., U.S.A. ([email protected]) filed a report at www.eslcafe.com about his experience with plagiarism while teaching in China, commiserating with another teacher who also had a similar complaint about rampant plagiarism in China.

[Dragon]

Dear Comrade,
It is wonderful that you spent such time educating the masses of this forum on the evils of plagarism. Thank you and long health and life.
Dragon

[Roger]

Chinamoy taught in Guangzhou in the 1980's, and he confirmed to me that even in those early ESL days it was normal for expat teachers to see their fail grades to be upgraded to suit the university's needs...

[MW]

Roger -

Thanks again for your thoughtful response.

You always provide relief from the tongue-in-cheek nether apperture comments or the outright hostile ignorance that sometimes slips by the monitors.

[chinasyndrome]