Another Short History of Linguistics (43)

I am sorry for last time when we talking about the Chinese architectural plagiarizing, I forget something, now I put it here. That is the water tower of Kuwait. It was built in 1979.

Pic from: http://image.wangchao.net.cn/baike/1268533066760.jpg

Soon it was copied by the Pearl of the Orient at Shanghai. It was designed in 1991 and finished in 1994:

http://cache.house.sina.com.cn/citylifehouse/citylife/ce/57/20090626_42835_1.jpg

Who will took the responsible for all these copies? It must be the Chinese government. Because when a building was planning. For other countries, they may be decided by private company or single architecture. But in China, all building must be decided by the government officer. Of course they don’t care about creativity of the building, what they care is how much benefit they can get from this building. Even if a building was designed by foreigner, it is still the result of the government internal struggle. And even if later find it is a garbage building, no one will take the responsible for they never publish who is the final decider. They just say that is was decided by a committee or by the country.

Another example is the recent building of ‘People’s Daily’  

 Pic from: http://house.chinadaily.com.cn/xa/img/attachement/jpg/site385/20130417/f0def1ff4f4312d8a00206.jpg

It copy the Jumeirah Hotel in Dubai:

Pic from: http://image.wangchao.net.cn/nvxing/1246622940116.jpg

So the China lacking of scientific though is not to blame the intellectual but the government-like academy system.