Other cases involve accusations of plagiarism against well-known Chinese scholars which have provoked the authorities to talk of investigations.
But the "obsolete-map" story is not credible to Chinese scholars, says Yang Dazhou, a retired senior fellow at the Academy of Social Sciences and China's top Balkans expert.
Both the Academy of Sciences and private donors such as Li Ka-shing, a Hong Kong-based billionaire, are dishing out money to make conditions attractive for returning Chinese scholars.
Mr. Li and other Chinese scholars and labor experts say workers from earlier generations, who hailed mainly from poor farms in China's hinterland, were accustomed to hard farm work and more single-mindedly focused on making money.
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On the Boston University campus Wednesday morning, the president of the Chinese Students and Scholars Association, Shuang Guo, said that the group was planning a memorial service for Ms. Lu.
Most remarkable of all, Shanghai's new Jewish scholars are all Chinese.
In 1912, the government abolished the teaching of the classics and began promoting a written form of the vernacular, rather than classical written Chinese, which was decipherable only to scholars.
Beijing's main goal is to win, so it has hired seasoned foreign law firms to handle its major WTO cases thus far, and used Chinese lawyers to assist them, lawyers and scholars say.
These scholars were born and grew up in China and may have worked in the Chinese government before coming to the United States.
He recently coordinated the release of an abridged Chinese version of the Encyclopedia Judaica, a 900-page volume that took three years and the work of 40 scholars to complete.
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