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A manufactured controversy forced Elizabeth Magill to resign from Penn and continues to hound Harvard’s Claudine Gay. Here’s how it could have been avoided.

”Life— / I am of both your directions / Somehow remain hanging downward / the most / but strong as a cobweb“

Review of film The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent by Sebastian Scotney for Theartsdesk

“In this ambitious study, which should prove central to further work on these topics, Ming Dong Gu challenges the notion of a fundamental opposition between Western and Chinese aesthetics and undertakes a comparative study of a series of important issues in literary aesthetics, illuminating similarities and differences.” ( Jonathan Culler, Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Cornell University, USA) “Professor Ming Dong Gu has offered a most comprehensive investigation of Chinese and Western studies. His latest book sets a new ground for conceptual and scholar...

Contemporary Campus Life: Transformation, Manic Managerialism and Academentia is being launched. Contemporary Campus Life’s analysis of managerialism as a cause of academentia is framed by exigencies imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic. My argument is that the virus has brought about an ecological correction that affects all human and animal kinds, one that management (as distinct from management theory) can learn from. My satirical critique of market-driven neoliberalism as applied to institutions is offered as a metaphor to analyse the excesses, contradictions and obstructions in contemporar...