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Perhaps it's a simply a cultural difference grounded in a Confucian ideal of self-sacrifice, learning and a subordination of the self to a collective, but the statements coming out of these supposedly free-thinking, liberated-from-their-molds individuals smack of brainlessness. Claims that peer pressure and parental pressure to go pre-med have influenced some students' decisions make them seem easily manipulable and thought-controlled. Horror stories about piano lessons and SAT prep courses come right out of an Amy Tan novel about her mother...
...little regard for quality. Now they are being pressured to establish peer-review panels staffed by scientific experts to gauge the merit of competing proposals. Automatic promotions, still typical at many academic institutions, are also coming under attack, and some brave souls have even mounted an assault on the Confucian ethos -- particularly its stultifying worship of professors and its reluctance to question authority. Wen Chang, a young researcher at Academia Sinica, politely but firmly objects to being addressed as Teacher Chang. "I tell students that there is no authority in science," she says. "Everything can be overthrown the very next...
Second, the yearly threat to end MFN was having no effect on Beijing's leaders, who view even whispered rebukes as "unacceptable interference." As Clinton said last week, a proud Confucian culture that prizes order over liberty is especially reluctant to take steps perceived as kowtowing to U.S. pressure...
Professor of Chinese History Wei-Ming Tu, whoteaches Moral Reasoning 40, "Confucian Humanism:Self-Cultivation and Moral Community," called hisclass' gender disparity "a little unusual...
...should encourage women to enter thiscourse," he said "The Confucian tradition is oftencriticized as male-oriented and authoritarian andI take this feminist critique absolutely seriouslyin my course...