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北京大学英语新闻网/Peking University News Beijing Forum 2007: Building an Innovation-Oriented University Culture PKU NEWS 2007--10--21 http://ennews.pku.edu.cn/news.php?s=192894781 There are so many universities and science workers in China, but we know well to what extent they have contributed to the country and to what extent their findings are internationally influential. Therefore, one of the many questions that confront Chinese universities is: Why should our innovation ability be this week? I think the main reason is not that we have inadequate financial input or insufficient talents. Our financial input, though indeed not abundant, could yield strong innovation ability in a European country with the same amount; also, there are numerous professors, doctoral supervisors, academicians as well as key laboratories in China. The root problem is that our university culture is not an innovation-oriented one. Then what kind of mainstream culture prevails in Chinese universities today? By Zhu Qingshi It is an unavoidable fact that Chinese universities lack innovation ability. There are so many universities and science workers in China, but we know well to what extent they have contributed to the country and to what extent their findings are internationally influential. Therefore, one of the many questions that confront Chinese universities is: Why should our innovation ability be this weak? I think the main reason is not that we have inadequate financial input or insufficient talents. Our financial input, though indeed not abundant, could yield strong innovation ability in a European country with the same amount; also, there are numerous professors, doctoral supervisors, academicians as well as key laboratories in China. The root problem is that our university culture is not an innovation-oriented one. Then what kind of mainstream culture prevails in Chinese universities today? I will try to answer this question after giving you some examples. Then finally, I will tell my readers what innovation-oriented universities should be like and how we should build such an innovation-oriented culture. Ⅰ When talking about university culture, what remind most of us might be a word which frequently hits the media: ―culture‖---Cultural Revolution, traditional culture, corporate culture, school culture, innovative culture, etc. Then what on earth is a ―culture‖? Interpretations may vary from person to person. Perhaps no answer ever 514
北京大学英语新闻网/Peking University News exists at all. In my opinion, culture is something real and specific. So I am not going to give any definitions. I will give examples. When I was a postgraduate student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1979, I had the luck to attend the impressive celebration ceremony commemorating the 100th anniversary of the school. So many guests were invited to this world-famous institute, including senators and congressmen from US education departments as well as celebrities from all fields. The ceremony was held on campus, with no rostrum but just a small podium, on which two seats had been placed, one for the mayor of Cambridge, the other for the president of MIT. All the other guests were seated in front of the podium on an equal ground. What had surprised me was that no one complained and no one thought himself or herself ignored guests. Also, not a single student thought that the school leadership did a bad job of publicity in front of the media. This is the ―culture‖. On the contrary, those many celebration ceremonies in Chinese universities I have attended so far are completely different. Seats are indispensible on the rostrum, and the placing of seats could be a huge task for the organizer: Whose seats are to be placed in the front row, whose on the right, in odd or even number, so on so forth. All these trifles need due consideration in our culture, either willingly or reluctantly. Why? The answer is: Firstly, any guest who had been seated improperly could feel very irritated; secondly, it could be considered ―foolish‖ if guests of high prestige were not placed in front of the media for university publicity. Although we appreciate the simple and natural way of MIT celebration ceremony, we still have to stick to our Chinese way. There should be no alternative. That is the power of ―culture‖. An individual seems powerless in the whole socio-cultural context. Of course this does not mean that our own culture is to blame. It is alright for the university to seize the opportunity to make self-publicity by inviting high-prestige guests. For such a goal, the rather complicated way of celebration is the only choice. To conclude, different cultures could exert different influences on universities, influences that no one could ever escape from. In fact, similar examples abound outside universities. For instance, there is a famous temple called Puji Temple on Putuo Mountain, the Buddhist mecca in China. In front of the temple there is a lotus pool which used to be the most famous cultural and Buddhist heritage of the site. Today the pool has been transformed into a music fountain with pop music playing from time to time among the unpleasant smell of the water. To our regret, the tranquility that informs the Buddhist culture has been totally destroyed. This could probably be the result of decisions taken by some important figures, who might hope to attract more visitors with music and fountain. However, they failed to realize that visitors could be very disappointed for that very reason. Then why did the monks in the temple and the public accept the idea without saying ―No‖? Because it is impossible for even monks, temples and cultural heritage sites to get away from being polluted by the superficiality of our culture. As we know, China‘s GDP could be the most superficial thing at present. For a higher GDP, governments 515
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