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Rachel Brown

Rachel Brown is a research associate in Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.

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beijing, CHINA: Chinese university students cycle on the campus of the pretigious Tsinghua University in Beijing 30 August 2006, with a banner welcoming the new students in the background. Plagiarism is rampant at Chinese universities as academics are pushed to publish or perish, with their schools often covering up for them, as a recent survey of 160 Ph.D. holders found 60 percent had copied the work of others and the same percentage had paid in order to be published in academic journals. AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)

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