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Chinese professor banned from teaching over Hong Kong protest comments
- Liang Yanping also stripped of her Communist Party membership for making ‘wrong remarks about Japan’
- Liang came under attack online after voicing support for Fang Fang, author of Wuhan Diary
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A university in central China has banned one of its professors from teaching after she expressed sympathies online for Hong Kong’s anti-government protesters and the country’s official position on Japan’s wartime activities.
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Hubei University’s Communist Party committee announced on Saturday that Liang Yanping, a professor of literary criticism at the university’s school of Chinese language and literature, had been expelled from the party for publishing “wrong remarks concerning Hong Kong and Japan”.
Liang would be banned from teaching and supervising graduate students, according to the university.
The university began investigating Liang, 59, in April after she wrote an article online in support of novelist Wang Fang, known as Fang Fang, who documented her daily life under strict lockdown in Wuhan, where the pandemic coronavirus first erupted.
Fang Fang’s Wuhan Diary criticised the local government’s handling of the crisis and she was labelled as a “traitor” after news emerged that the posts would be published overseas in English and German.
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Liang voiced her support for Fang Fang and praised her work as “human-centred”.
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