Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Thursday, January 17, 2002
Beijing University Professor Deprived of Academic Posts for Plagiary
Wang Mingming, a professor with the sociology department of Beijing University, one of China's most prestigious institutions of higher learning, was deprived of his academic posts because of serious plagiary.
Wang Mingming, a professor with the sociology department of Beijing University, one of China's most prestigious institutions of higher learning, was deprived of his academic posts because of serious plagiary.
In his book "Imaginary Alien Nation" published in 1998, Wang included whole sections lifted from a book written by a U.S. anthropologist. This was disclosed in a social sciences journal by Wang Xiaosheng, a student working for a doctorate at the university.
According to Wang Xiaosheng, 100,000 words in the professor's book were copied straight from the book of the U.S. author, which had been partially translated by the professor 11 years ago. The professor did not give any acknowledgment to the U.S. author in his book.
Wang Mingming was formerly director of both the university's folklore study center and teaching and research section on anthropology.
Wang Mingming is a social anthropologist who studies the history and future impacts of Chinese culture on lifestyles and institutions. He currently is researching the influences of Western cultures and practices on China in both cities and villages. One of the youngest professors at Peking University, Wang Mingming holds degrees from Xiamen University and London University.
Major works
Marriage and local tradition: perspectives from Huian county SOAS China Festival London
Civic and popular festivals in the PRC London China Seminar, London
The politics of culture: treatment of folk religion in the (with Stephan Feuchtwang) Oxford oriental Institute
The politics of culture or a contest history: representation Dialectical Anthropology
Twisted memory: epics, semi-epics and folklore of a wall-her Turku Worshop on Oral Epics along the Silk Road
Imperial and popular versions of almanacs and time in Quanzh Traditional Cosmology Society Edinburgh 1-1-93
Quanzhou: the Chinese city as cosmogram Cosmos
The cosmography of the Chinese city Traditional Cosmology Society Edinburgh 1-1-94
The invention of tradition: regional theatres in post-revolu
Place, administration and territorial cults in late imperial Late Imperial China