The nature of the problem dictates it can't go on record. I can only add I've heard the same anecdotal from my international students, not necessarily about Harvard but similar higher-tier schools going for $50,000…
This was in 2013. We had a Chinese liaison/translator who worked with us in the USA-she's the one who convinced me not to return the gift. It could be she also got a gift and had an interest in keeping it-couldn't say…
Student was definitely in the 1%. His dad owns a company that's on stock market, he has his own gaming servers company in China. He wore suits worth more than my monthly salary.
I'd say the concern is Chinese, but it's a systemic problem rather than a concern about any individual's morals or honesty. Here's a great, sad documentary on the hollowness of the Chinese dream's cycle of expectation,…
In the US
I got a pair of $400 Prada sunglasses as a "gift" from a Chinese student, first week of school. I was told it would be extremely rude to not accept a gift in Chinese culture. The student was very confused when a lower…
One local public university suddenly had a 10% budget cut in funding from the state, to which their response was to stick thumbs in the dam: get more international students to pay the full tuition. However, many smaller…
The nature of the problem dictates it can't go on record. I can only add I've heard the same anecdotal from my international students, not necessarily about Harvard but similar higher-tier schools going for $50,000…
This was in 2013. We had a Chinese liaison/translator who worked with us in the USA-she's the one who convinced me not to return the gift. It could be she also got a gift and had an interest in keeping it-couldn't say…
Student was definitely in the 1%. His dad owns a company that's on stock market, he has his own gaming servers company in China. He wore suits worth more than my monthly salary.
I'd say the concern is Chinese, but it's a systemic problem rather than a concern about any individual's morals or honesty. Here's a great, sad documentary on the hollowness of the Chinese dream's cycle of expectation,…
In the US
I got a pair of $400 Prada sunglasses as a "gift" from a Chinese student, first week of school. I was told it would be extremely rude to not accept a gift in Chinese culture. The student was very confused when a lower…
One local public university suddenly had a 10% budget cut in funding from the state, to which their response was to stick thumbs in the dam: get more international students to pay the full tuition. However, many smaller…