Perspectives on Plagiarism in China

This book examines the issue of plagiarism in the Chinese context of history and education, both in classical and contemporary times. In view of the effort on a global scale to fight against plagiarism and consolidating anti-plagiarism education, this book examines how plagiarism is conceptualized and addressed in the Confucian Heritage Culture society of China. Employing qualitative content analysis, genre analysis, and discourse analysis to examine Chinesemedium textual materials of different kinds, this book offers new perspectives on the question of plagiarism in China. These textual materials include classic and ancient Chinese books, modern newspapers in China (1840-1949), academic literature, correspondence texts on plagiarism cases, and textbooks published in China on Chinese and English academic writing. Inspiring future research and educational initiatives aimed at addressing the problem of plagiarism in the contemporary world, this book will appeal to students and scholars of education, Chinese history, and Asian studies.

Yongyan Li is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong, China. Her research focuses on scholarly practices, academic writing/publishing pedagogies, and the issue of plagiarism in the Chinese context.

1. Introduction 2. Plagiarism in classical China 3. Plagiarism in the early decades of the 20th century (1): An overview 4. Plagiarism in the early decades of the 20th century (2): A genre perspective 5. Plagiarism in the socio-political movements of the 1950s-70s 6. Criticism and self-criticism in a Correspondence on Plagiarism Cases Corpus 1950s-60s 7. Plagiarism in the 1980s-2000s and the claim of "non-standard source annotation" 8. Plagiarism in the 2010s-early 2020s and the issue of citation negligence 9. Genres in a Correspondence on Plagiarism Cases Corpus 1980s-2010s: A move analysis 10. Figurative and metaphorical characterizations of plagiarism in contemporary Chinese publications 11. Regulating source annotation and promoting academic norms and publishing ethics 12. The Chinese education system addressing the issue of plagiarism