Updated: Sunday, July 6, 2008 at 1:37pm
While hundreds fell silent in Beijing's Tiananmen Square and all of China came to a halt for three minutes of silence Monday, Yale’s own Chinese community held a similar moment of silence halfway across the world. A candlelight vigil to honor the victims of the massive earthquake that struck the Chinese province of Sichuan last Monday drew approximately 80 to Cross...
As the world’s attention turns to Beijing for this summer’s Olympic Games, the New Haven Green played host to a face-off between supporters of the Chinese government and opponents of its human-rights record. But after Yale stepped in, the protest — for one side, at least — became about more than just China. The pro-Chinese demonstration, which was a...
Amid growing pressure from students and others in the Yale community to speak out on the subject, University President Richard Levin has disclosed that he “expressed concern” last week to a top Chinese official about the recent instability in Tibet. Levin, who has forged close ties with the Chinese government in recent years as part of his effort to transform Yale...
Many governments justify public ownership of corporations as a way to increase economic equality. But Yale economics professor Zhiwu Chen GRD ’90 disagrees. Chen, who studies the Chinese economy, argued in a lecture Tuesday that the Chinese government ought to decrease the stake it holds in its economy in order to even income distribution among citizens. During the...
As activists worldwide are stepping up their criticism of China in the run-up to this summer’s Olympic Games in Beijing, the New Haven Board of Aldermen voted unanimously Monday night to approve street closures for an April 26 protest of China’s alleged human-rights violations that will temporarily shut down several streets around the New Haven Green. The protest —...
When the Yale School of Management announced in November that it would organize a summit of business heavyweights in Beijing during the 2008 summer Olympic Games, it hoped to take advantage of the University’s connections in China to host an attention-grabbing executive-education program. But less than five months before the games open, administrators have been forced...
At Yale, plagiarizing a paper lands a student in front of the Executive Committee, which can hand down punishments as stringent as expulsion. But according to a University professor who taught at Peking University this fall, at the Beijing school, the same offence seems to go unpunished. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology professor Stephen C. Stearns ’67 sent a...
Updated Friday 2:28 a.m. A Yale biology professor who taught at Peking University this fall as part of a joint program between the two schools has accused the Chinese school of turning a blind eye toward plagiarism, raising questions about the academic integrity of an institution that is a central partner in Yale’s internationalization efforts. Ecology and...
Yale’s Chinese debate team defeated delegations from universities around the world to claim victory in last week’s International Varsity Debate series, jointly hosted by New Media Singapore and China Central Television. The team — composed of Adam Scharfman ’08, Nick Sedlet ’08, Austin Woerner ’08 and J.T. Kennedy ’09 — beat students from Oxford...
Administrators, professors and lectors in the East Asian Languages and Literatures department are sorting out whether an e-mail sent to lectors several weeks ago represents a misstatement or a curricular change that would mandate increased attention toward traditional Chinese characters. On Nov. 15, Chinese language coordinator Wei Su sent an e-mail in Chinese to...
American journalists might find Qian Dong a walking oxymoron: Dong is a Chinese reporter who endorses government censorship. Dong, a news anchor and commentator on political, social and economic issues for China Central Television, explained her take on Chinese-American relations, journalistic practices in China and government censorship during a Morse College Master’s...
Some Chinese language instructors and students are unconvinced about a significant change in how the University will teach Chinese courses next semester. Just before the Thanksgiving break on Nov. 15, Language Coordinator Wei Su, who oversees Chinese language instruction at Yale, sent several language instructors an e-mail in Chinese indicating that the department needed...
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