Shaanxi writer Jia Pingao’s daughter, Jia Qianqian, has become embroiled in a plagiarism controversy over her academic paper. Recently, a blogger named “The Forest of Lyrics” accused Jia Qianqian of plagiarizing the core viewpoints of multiple scholars in an academic paper she published in July 2014.
Jia Qianqian is an associate professor at the School of Literature of Northwest University and also serves as the vice president of the Shaanxi Provincial Youth Literature Association. A comparison of materials by “The Forest of Lyrics” revealed that not only did Jia Qianqian’s paper contain extensive passages that were identical to those of other articles, but even the core arguments highly overlapped, clearly exceeding the limits of general reference or reasonable citation.
According to the disclosure, Jia Qianqian’s paper titled “A Study of Jia Pingao’s Painting Art Under the Literary Vision,” published in “Artistic Debate” in July 2014, allegedly plagiarized articles by four different authors, including borrowing the core viewpoint from scholar Zhu Liangzhi’s “The Vital Spirit of Chinese Art” to evaluate her father Jia Pingao’s paintings as “vivid and lively.”
The descriptions of Jia Pingao’s paintings such as “dark and surging,” “bald elder,” in the article closely resemble those in scholar Zeng Lingcun’s “Zen Consciousness and Jia Pingao’s Prose Creation”; in the section discussing the relationship between “brushwork and blank space” in Chinese painting, some paragraphs bear a high resemblance to painter Ji Youchen’s article “Giving Form to Essence”; and direct citations were even made.
Furthermore, the initial discussion of the “Three-stage Theory” of Chinese painting, its overall framework, logical deduction, and citations of ancient quotes, are highly similar to an article published by author Han Yu in “Beautiful Writing” magazine. The aforementioned four articles were all published prior to Jia Qianqian’s.
In addition to plagiarism, there are also numerous typographical errors in this paper, such as mistaking the famous allusion “Mi Fei pays homage to the stone” (referring to the Northern Song calligrapher Mi Fei) as “Mi Ti pays homage to the stone,” and mistaking the common phrase “as the saying goes” as “as the saying arrives.”
Of note, despite the accusations of plagiarism, this paper has been listed by Jia Qianqian herself as one of her significant academic achievements on the official website of Northwest University.
However, as of now, Northwest University and related departments have not issued any response to the allegations.
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