a long and boring article on the current president of china. cool/freaky part: his education was a sham, and he plagiarized his dissertation. From 1975 to 1979, Xi studied chemical engineering at Beijings prestigious Tsinghua University as a Worker, Peasant, PLA student (gongnongbing xuesheng). In 1975, education was more political and practical than professional, and Tsinghua University was no longer so much a centre of learning, but functioned as a liaison office, where science and engineering majors spent 80% of their time on learning practical subjects and working in factories, 15% of their time studying Marxism–Leninism–Mao Zedong thought and 5% of their time doing farm work and learning from the Peoples Liberation Army.[12] Commenting on the quality of this education, Joseph Fewsmith wrote; it was probably a decent education, but not as good as he would have received prior to, much less after, the Cultural Revolution.[13] From 1998 to 2002, he studied Marxist philosophy and ideological education in an on-the-job postgraduate programme at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, again at Tsinghua University, and obtained a Doctor of Law (LLD) degree, which was a degree covering fields of law, politics, management, and revolutionary history.[14] However, commentators have questioned this qualification, pointing out a series of problems with it. The Sunday Times of London commissioned scholars to read the unpublished PhD thesis who noted that the content has little to do with law, appears to contain no original research, and reads like a collection of quotes from existing published works.[15] Writer Joe Chung compared Xis works with those of other scholars and found that numerous passages had been copied from previously published works or works published around the same time as Xis. In one case, citations were shown to have been copied from another work, including misspellings and punctuation errors in that previously published work. Based on this research, Chung raised the question of whether Xi plagiarised his PhD.[16] The Sunday Times article also noted the poor esteem of his previous qualifications and speculated that the PhD was invented by a committee in order to improve Xis public image.[citation needed] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi_Jinping
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