No research fund, no teaching job: late Chinese pianist’s note published by student

A Chinese pianist ordered to secure research funding to save his university job has died, while a note that he left exposing alleged malpractices at the institution was posthumously posted online by one of his students – with his family’s consent. The note was penned by Bai Baoguo.

Born in 1972, Bai was an associate professor at the Yanan University’s Luxun Academy of Fine Arts in Shaanxi province. He died on October 20.

Two weeks later, on November 3, a six-page note circulated on the Chinese...