In a 17 June statement, the university fully named the suspect as Jiang Wenhua, a researcher in the school’s department of probability, statistics and actuarial sciences, who has published several papers on statistics. Wang was hired by Fudan University as an associate researcher in 2007, and held several senior administrative roles there. The police identified the suspect as a 39-year-old man named Jiang, who they announced on Monday had been charged with “suspicion of intentional homicide”.įudan University later issued statements “expressing deep condolences for the tragic murder of Comrade Wang Yongzhen”. The motive behind the fatal stabbing remains unknown - but the suspect is a researcher at Fudan University, and the tragedy has stirred up debate over what many researchers argue are flaws in China’s tenure-track system.Īccording to Fudan University, Wang Yongzhen, 49, the secretary of the Communist Party of China at the School of Mathematical Sciences and a former deputy dean, was killed on its Shanghai campus in the afternoon of 7 June. The killing of a maths faculty member on a Shanghai campus has sent shock waves through China’s research community. Mourners pay their respects to Wang Yongzhen on 17 June.
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