List of Articles – Reader Type: “University Administrators”

The National Day Singing Competition

Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, September, 2009note:  this post is from 2009, a few weeks after I came to ZUST to teach full time and I was still awed by most everything.  As it turns out, there were no more singing day competitions. This one was part of the …

Update on threats to Anne-Marie Brady

… and an update  12-11-18 on the update.   A senior US official offers intelligence agency cooperation on Chinese interference in New Zealand, citing in particular the Anne-Marie Brady incidents.   And a closed circuit camera is now in her office, which  was broken into after publication of her research on CCP influence in New Zealand.  …

Party’s Over

October 9, 2018 The crackdown on expression hardens for CCP and anyone in government, even if not CCP Jiayun Feng, reporting in SupChina  jeremy@supchina.com –  New Party rules to govern members’ online behavior The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is set to implement some new regulations for its members to monitor how they behave on the …

School’s Out – What Chinese are talking about … (2)

The cult of Xi – from the Little Red Book on Mao Zedong thought to the nightly quiz show on Xi Jinping thought extolling Mao with the little red book; and extolling Xi with the tv quiz show Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-45728131 A nightly tv show features students vying to be the …

The International Student Office – Evaluation

This is the executive summary of a report prepared by students in my Modern Chinese Economic History course in spring 2014.At that time, every Chinese university was competing to admit foreign students, mostly from Africa and the middle east.  University programs got put together on very short timeframes, with no …

Academic Integrity in the International Civil Engineering Program at Zhejiang University of Science and Technology

This is the executive summary of a group research project conducted by students in my Modern Chinese Economic History course in spring of 2014. This work could only have been conducted under my direction – no Chinese faculty member would dare to investigate the rampant cheating in the civil engineering …