Each semester consists of 18 weeks in a uni; each assistant professor is required to teach 9 hours per week if the school is not kind enough to offer deduction up to 2 hours in the first 2 years. Almost each assistant professor is required to write grant applications to bring money to the department in order to fill the blanks on the CV for his/her own sake. S/he had better write crappy articles to submit to various and many crappy journals that are peer-reviewed by crappy colleagues in order to fill other blanks on the CV. These journals had better to be in English; sometimes these crappy articles written in English were reviewed by crappy reviewers who know very little about the subjects and local dynamics related to the subjects. And they got published! And then the authors said that how many times their articles in English were downloaded online in order to prove how significant their academic contribution is.
Sometimes foreign reviewers and readers are mostly if not only interested in National Palace Museum and its dynamics with the Forbidden Palace and the cross-strait cultural-political dynamics. S/he shall always remember that it is the foremost important thing to choose the right topic to attract the international readership.
Play it or leave it.
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