China's volume of research output is respectable in many fields. But the humanities work is often dismissed as political by Western and Chinese academics alike,

China's volume of research output is respectable in many fields. But the humanities work is often dismissed as political by Western and Chinese academics alike, and science has a quality/quantity problem[0] made worse by the rapid proliferation of ranking systems for universities and a "publish or perish" culture[1] that makes elite US institutions look good. There are some groups in my field (phys chem) that we know are doing good work, but most research out of China is automatically dismissed because it's so often not reproducible. [0] http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110720/full/475267a.html http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110720/full/475267a.html [1] https://www.thechinastory.org/key-article/how-fares-chinese-academia-questioning-the-university-spirit-%E5%A4%A7%E5%AD%A6%E7%B2%BE%E7%A5%9E/ https://www.thechinastory.org/key-article/how-fares-chinese-...