A lawsuit against NYU Shanghai has exposed some of the tensions — and limitations — of American universities operating in China.
When Matthew Belanger arrived in Shanghai during a record-breaking heatwave in the summer of 2013, it felt, he says, like the beginning of “a once in a lifetime experience.”
Belanger, an art professor, had just left his tenure-track position at the City University of New York to be one of the first faculty members at NYU Shanghai, New York University’s new venture in China and the first ever Sino-U.S. joint-venture research university. The new gig offered travel and adventure, but
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