{"id":133894,"date":"2025-08-02T11:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T11:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=133894"},"modified":"2025-08-02T11:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T11:00:13","slug":"chinas-new-breed-of-academic-paper-mills-promising-a-shortcut-to-grad-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=133894","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s new breed of academic paper mills promising a shortcut to grad school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe agency\u2019s advertisement promised just the kind of \u201ccutting-edge\u201d expertise that Chris Wong was looking for.<br \/>\nThe 21-year-old arts student was aiming to get into a graduate programme overseas after completing his studies in Australia, and the \u201ccommercial research\u201d firm could give him a ticket in.<br \/>\nFor nearly 20,000 yuan (US$2,800), the Beijing-based agency would guide Wong through a three-month independent online course of study in his field to produce a research paper that would be published in&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3320484\/chinas-new-breed-academic-paper-mills-promising-shortcut-grad-school?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe agency\u2019s advertisement promised just the kind of \u201ccutting-edge\u201d expertise that Chris Wong was looking for. The 21-year-old arts student was aiming to get&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133894"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}