A Teacher in China Learns the Limits of Free Expression | The New Yorker
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How had the country experienced so much social, economic, and educational change while its politics remained stagnant?
Save this story Save this story At Chinese universities, when a student reports a professor for political wrongdoing, the verb that’s used to describe this action is jubao . It happens rarely, but the possibility is always there, because potential infractions are both undefined and extremely varied. A student might jubao a teacher for a comment about a sensitive historical event, or a remark that seems to contradict a Communist Party policy. Ambiguous statements about Xi Jinping, the President of China, are especially risky. In 2019, during a class at Chongqing Normal University, a literature
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