Works Department Agents also keep an eye on Chinese academics and scientists working in other countries and make sure they eventually go back home to China.

Many Chinese academics were skeptical of Menzies' claims.

Some prominent Chinese academics came out to criticize Kong, but he also received support on the internet.

Chinese academics have suggested that the country's airlines should counter by reducing purchases of Airbus aircraft.

But the biggest weakness, many Chinese academics indicated, is the lack of academic freedom.

China appears to be moving to cut off access by foreign scholars to social survey data, according to Chinese academics and a secret document distributed recently.

Traditional district societies revived and multiplied, along with organisations of Chinese academics, creative associations, homes for the elderly and children's facilities.

Chinese academics have called for new policies to tackle the population shift, like making better social welfare provision for migrant workers.

I imagined that these arrests were a kind of retaliation, a general warning to Chinese academics everywhere.

Despite a slow cultural opening, Chinese academics are still forbidden to teach about many historical events and such public testaments are rare.