Academic Power and Democracy: A Memorandum on the Yangtze Reading Award Controversy

Author: Zheng Junyan
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Publish Date: 2000-08-01
Features: Triggered by the academic debate over the first "Yangtze River 'Reading' Award," this discussion on academic power and democracy has been a rare event in China's academic and cultural circles for many years. Scholars and experts from academic institutions such as the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Peking University, and Fudan University, both domestic and international, engaged in a broad and in-depth discussion from a constructive academic perspective on topics such as the evaluation mechanisms of humanities and social sciences, academic reward systems, academic norms, academic criticism, and counter-criticism. As a memorandum of this debate, this book will undoubtedly become an extremely valuable historical material for the contemporary academic history.