Posted on 04/12/2010 7:46:39 AM PDT by fishtank
Cheating Hurts China's Research Efforts
April 12, 2010
When professors in China need to author research papers to get promoted, many turn to people like Lu Keqian.
Working on his laptop in a cramped spare bedroom, the former schoolteacher ghostwrites for professors, students, government offices--anyone willing to pay his fee, typically about 300 yuan ($45).
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Dan Ben-Canaan is familiar with plagiarism. The Israeli professor has been teaching for nine years at Heilongjiang Univ. in the northeastern city of Harbin. A colleague approached him in 2008 for a paper he wrote about the kidnapping and murder of a Jewish musician in Harbin in 1933 during the Japanese occupation.
"He had the audacity to present it as his own paper at a conference that I organized," Ben-Canaan says. "Without any shame!" ............
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More fakery from the Chinese.
Punch line to an old Chinese/Jewish joke: "Goldberg, iceberg . . . what's the difference?"
He said the entire culture is built on theft and corruption, which makes a lot of the things Americans take for granted (contract law and copyright/patent protection, for example) a complete farce. And without those simple things a society is doomed to exist in perpetuity at minimal subsistence levels.
I'd disagree. America's early history was one of flagrant disregard of European efforts to protect their machines patents, designs, etc, let alone unauthorised reprinting of novels and non-fiction without any effort to make amends. Didn't do America any harm. It can be a very good way to swiftly close the gap. A large part of the reasons for Hollywood's early success were related to their need to avoid similar laws (Lessig has a great article on it).
The problem (according to this guy) is that the parents couldn't even share their recipes and trade secrets with their own children -- for fear that their kids would sell them to competitors.
After hearing that one I must have looked at the guy like he had three heads.
Dan Ben-Canaan is familiar with plagiarism. The Israeli professor has been teaching for nine years at Heilongjiang Univ. in the northeastern city of Harbin. A colleague approached him in 2008 for a paper he wrote about the kidnapping and murder of a Jewish musician in Harbin in 1933 during the Japanese occupation. "He had the audacity to present it as his own paper at a conference that I organized," Ben-Canaan says. "Without any shame!"75 percent of the plagiarists voted for Obama in 2008. /rimshot!
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