Re: China as a high tech source

[Hari Kumar <hari.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Firstly, I should thank Michael Perlman for initiating an interesting thread. (As well as for ihs edifying list in general).

I happen to be in C right now, teaching hand-picked 'stars' in a medical sub-speciality.
In the NYT forwarded (Sorry forget by whom) the following phrases appear:

"The Chinese government also censors university online bulletin boards and discussion groups, and recently prevented students at Zhongshan University in Guangzhou from conversing freely with visiting elected officials from
Hong Kong.

Students here are not encouraged to challenge authority or received wisdom. For some, that helps explain why China has never won a Nobel Prize. What is needed most now, some of China's best scholars say, are bold, original thinkers."

I start my stints in C with an exhortation and then arryon with a continual chivvying to 'challenge authority'.
This is sort of easy for me to do, since I insist on a paradigm of so-called "Evidence Based Medicine(EBM)".
But even there - boy is that dificult to do. Now I have to say, that in both Canada, USA & the UK - that is also a formidable challenge. I mean we are talking of physicians. But... I imagine to that to get people in the humanities & the 'liberal arts' to take this on - is even more tricky in fact. Of course I have no experience or data to report there!
Regards,
H

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