Insight into the Academic Style of Chinese Scholarship

Author: Li Xingmin
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Publish Date: 2006-04-01
Features: From 2000 to 2001, the journal Dialectics of Nature ran a column titled "Discussions on Academic Norms and Academic Style Construction," which lasted over a year and published more than 60 articles. Seeing the Big Picture: An Insight into Academic Style in China was compiled based on this column. The book is divided into five parts: "Overview of Misconduct," "Analysis of Causes," "Building Norms," "Moral Rectification," and "Self-Discipline of Scholars."
Part one is a major exposure of the various ugly "misconduct" phenomena in academia. The second part analyzes the causes of declining academic style from different perspectives: external factors lie in the unhealthy elements of the social and cultural environment that affect academia; internal factors include the influence of arbitrary decisions by superiors, a lack of necessary independence and autonomy in Chinese academia, which has failed to establish academic norms conducive to healthy development, as well as the weak sense of self-discipline among scholars.
Parts three, four, and five propose a series of measures and suggestions to eliminate abuses and rectify academic style from different angles, such as addressing both symptoms and root causes, as well as combining self-discipline with external regulation. One of the advantages of this book is that it features contributions from multiple authors, each offering perspectives from different angles, making it highly inspiring and valuable for reference.