Cry for freedom
By Gong Yidong | China Features | Updated: 2009-05-07 08:07
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Former president of Wuhan University Liu Daoyu. Courtesy of Liu Daoyu |
He is hard of hearing and his right hand shakes. But Liu Daoyu, in his seventies, still works four hours a day, offering his thoughts on the weaknesses of higher education in China. His latest bombshell was a 7,000-word thesis in China's most influential newspaper, Southern Weekend, in which he called for an overhaul of the country's growing number of universities.
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