Storm in a fishbowl

In 2008, Ma Wei started to teach a new course at Wuhan Polytechnic University. It was called "Architecture and Feng Shui", an elective course designed to address urban development and locations of buildings. It was very popular with students, with 80 enrolling for the first semester and 130 for the second.

Then the course was canceled. In a sense, it became the victim of its own success.

The school authority had used the course for publicity, and when a media backlash came it decided to "hide from the thrust of the wind", to borrow a Chinese term.