Fate of liberal Peking University professor still unknown despite support of US academics
More than 130 faculty members from Wellesley College in United States wrote a letter to Peking University, urging the school not to expel Xia Yeliang
The fate of a liberal Peking University Professor Xia Yeliang remains in question days after more than 130 faculty members from Wellesley College in United States wrote an open letter to administrators at Peking University (PKU), urging the school not to expel Xia for political reasons.
“They told me pressuring the university with outside support was not going to work in my favour,”Xia said, referring to a recent conversation he had with Peking Universoty officials. Meanwhile, the school has yet to tell Xia when faculty members would vote on his expulsion, Xia said. The school had earlier threatened to hold a vote in September.
If PKU removes Professor Xia, who has been teaching at PKU since 2000, academics who signed the letter will ask Wellesley College to reconsider its institutional partnership with PKU, said the letter.