It is really a pain that people can’t just go on and off Peking U campus as Beijingers used to enjoy doing (including foreigners who had an extra registration process already during the time when Hu Xijin claims entrance was easy).
On the other hand, enormous crowds of tourists and guides with loudspeakers don’t make a pleasant experience for anyone and I sympathize with the university admins wanting to keep them out. There has to be a solution that limits bus tours while letting the individual public onto these campuses.
This silo effect is a big factor in the downfall of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union had technical leadership in many technologies, including non-silicon IC chips. However, fear of losing state secrets and internal competition gummed up the sharing of information that could have made the Soviet economy more productive.
Universities are public institutions which should be open to the people up to the point where the public presence becomes a disruption to the normal work of the university. Similarly university staff and students should be involved with the concerns and circumstances of the public. The situation in the universities of the west is far being a perfect example to China or any other nation. Almost invariably western universities also serve the interests of ruling elites.
It is really a pain that people can’t just go on and off Peking U campus as Beijingers used to enjoy doing (including foreigners who had an extra registration process already during the time when Hu Xijin claims entrance was easy).
On the other hand, enormous crowds of tourists and guides with loudspeakers don’t make a pleasant experience for anyone and I sympathize with the university admins wanting to keep them out. There has to be a solution that limits bus tours while letting the individual public onto these campuses.
This silo effect is a big factor in the downfall of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union had technical leadership in many technologies, including non-silicon IC chips. However, fear of losing state secrets and internal competition gummed up the sharing of information that could have made the Soviet economy more productive.
Universities are public institutions which should be open to the people up to the point where the public presence becomes a disruption to the normal work of the university. Similarly university staff and students should be involved with the concerns and circumstances of the public. The situation in the universities of the west is far being a perfect example to China or any other nation. Almost invariably western universities also serve the interests of ruling elites.