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NPR
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Plagiarism Hinders China's Scientific Ambition : NPR
August 3, 2011 - China is forecast to become the world's leading innovator this year, overtaking the U.S. and Japan in number of patent filings. But scientific fraud scandals bedevil the country's reputation as an innovator, and many say aspects of traditional Chinese culture may be partly to blame
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Aliesq
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Cultural Issues Related to Academic Plagiarism and Cheating Require a Nuanced Approach by School Administrators
January 31, 2021 - Students from all nations are guilty of cheating in school for one reason or another. Certainly there is no shortage of cheating by white students in US schools, and the same can be said of students of all ethnic backgrounds in any nation. According to the International Center for Academic Integrit
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SpringerLink
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Chinese university EFL teachers’ perceptions of plagiarism | Higher Education
Although Chinese university students’ perceptions of plagiarism have been extensively investigated, those of their teachers have been surprisingly under-researched. This study sought to address this gap by investigating 112 Chinese university English teachers’ knowledge of and attitudes ...
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Voice of America
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Some Students Not Well-Schooled About Plagiarism
September 10, 2021 - International students in the United States are more susceptible to plagiarism — using someone else’s academic work as one’s own — and are more likely to be caught than their American counterparts, studies show. Plagiarism has long permeated American universities among all students. But...
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WENR
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The Economy of Fraud in Academic Publishing in China
April 7, 2022 - Can China’s education sector address widespread fraud in academic publishing? Doing so is critical to the country’s effort to establish itself as an innovative research nation and move up on the global food chain of internationally reputable education systems.
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ResearchGate
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(PDF) Plagiarism and international students: A matter of values differences?
November 1, 2005 - PDF | Plagiarism is often cited by lecturing staff as one issue causing difficulties for international students in tertiary education. However, there is... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
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Quora
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Is plagiarism legal in China? - Quora
Answer (1 of 6): In theory: It is a crime regardless who committed it, as long as evidence suggests so. In practice: If it falls into either the umbrella of “politically advantageous” or “domestic protectionism”, then it is a crime. In China, the most important thing to understand is ...
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ScienceDirect
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Institutional policies on plagiarism: The case of eight Chinese universities of foreign languages/international studies - ScienceDirect
Plagiarism is a major problem for universities worldwide and has been a constant cause of concern in higher education. Previous research has focused o…
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Ithenticate
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Plagiarism in China
Rise of plagiarism in China may be due to leniency on authors and researchers who plagiarize and publish unoriginal content.
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Factsanddetails
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ACADEMIC FRAUD, MISCONDUCT, CENSORSHIP AND PLAGIARISM IN CHINA | Facts and Details
An editorial published in 2010 in The Lancet, the British medical journal, warned that faked or plagiarized research posed a threat to President Hu Jintao’s vow to make China a research superpower by 2020. See Separate Articles: HIGHER EDUCATION IN CHINA factsanddetails.com ; CHINESE UNIVERSITIES ...
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Biomedcentral
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Perceptions of plagiarism by biomedical researchers: an online survey in Europe and China | BMC Medical Ethics | Full Text
Background Plagiarism is considered as serious research misconduct, together with data fabrication and falsification. However, little is known about biomedical researchers’ views on plagiarism. Moreover, it has been argued – based on limited empirical evidence – that perceptions of plagiarism ...
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Hku
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Perspectives on the Issue of Plagiarism in China
March 20, 2024 - Yongyan Li, Associate Professor, University of Hong Kong Chinese students new to an English-medium university outside mainland China often approach their written assignments with some trepidation, fearing that their writing might be accused of plagiarism.
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#SixthTone
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Chinese High Schoolers Caught Plagiarizing Published Papers
Students from nine provinces and municipalities are accused of trying to cheat their way into college, pointing to flaws in the ‘independent assessment’ system.
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Medium
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Aftermath of Chinese Actor’s Plagiarism, Rewriting the Chapter of Academic Integrity in China? | by GETChina Insights | Medium
December 10, 2021 - Two months ago, the academic dishonesty of a Chinese well-known actor Zhai Tianlin with more than 11 million followers on the social media Sina Weibo was reported by BBC, making it escalate into a…
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#SixthTone
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China Academy of Art Fires Professor Over Plagiarism Allegations
Recent allegations on social media claimed that many of the professor’s works closely resembled those of artists based abroad.
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WAMU
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A Maryland Professor Saw A Culture Of Cheating. His Chinese Students Say They Were Targeted. | WAMU
March 11, 2019 - The students say their professor targeted them because of their nationality, and filed a civil rights complaint as a result. But their instructor says he was just doing his job, and was calling out academic dishonesty.
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OUP Academic
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Chinese ESOL lecturers’ stance on plagiarism: does knowledge matter? | ELT Journal | Oxford Academic
November 4, 2013 - Abstract. Research and discussion on plagiarism have focused predominantly on ESOL students with little attention paid to ESOL teachers. This article repor
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Reddit
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r/AskAcademia on Reddit: Can we please talk about the issue of international students and plagiarism?

It is almost certainly not a cultural thing in the sense that it is encouraged. I come from a university in Asia, and plagiarism here is extremely strict - quite possibly stricter than in the West. Students fail FIRST TIME. There are no second chances. Plagiarism as far as I know is a well known fact to be a hindrance to academia. It may be possible that they think they can get away with it because it is not strict in your institution. That being said, I do not come from the mainland China, and can only speak for the university I am in.

So why does it seem like only Chinese students or Asian ones have the reputation? What you suggest does seem to play a part, but there may be other reasons. I would say it is cultural, but slightly different from what you are suggesting. I think that it is because they are pressured to succeed, and at the same time their inherent abilities (English, critical thinking skills) are not good enough to compete at the highest level, which is why they plagiarize. I am sure that they DO understand why it is bad. These students are either extremely wealthy or extremely poor and managed to get in based on academic merit. The pressures they feel are USUALLY immense, and this may be perhaps why they plagiarise. Of course, there are those that plagiarize based on laziness or whatnot, but you must bear in mind that there may be those who plagiarize for (wrongly) other reasons. My university also has many Chinese students. However, as the regulations are enforced so vigorously, there are almost no instances of plagiarism that I have heard of. So I would say give them one chance, be VERY clear, and if they do it again then they must suffer the consequences. Babying would hurt them.

I think your current one or two chances policy should be enforced. Tell them that it is wrong, and do not let cultural issues get in the way. I believe in the workplace nobody would discriminate based on race or culture, and they must be taught that breaking the rules is not a good thing. I wouldn't be too harsh based on cultural differences, but you cannot be totally lenient as this will ruin them as well as enforce negative stereotypes, which would hurt those from the culture who play by the rules and excel correctly.

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UnHerd
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Do Chinese students understand plagiarism? - UnHerd
September 9, 2024 - Last month it was reported that British universities are teetering on the edge of a financial crisis. But there are more subtle problems at hand as well. A particularly interesting article in Times Higher Education explains that many Chinese students are being disciplined over plagiarism because ...