William M. Chace's The Decline of the English Department: How it happened and what could be done to reverse it, The Epoch Times, November 5 – 11, 2009.
Reading this stimulating piece is sad because it led me to feel bad about the unparalleled rapid growth of library facilities across all HK uni, e.g. buying up all Oxbridge and Ivy Leagues presses books (which, from my experience, decidedly outnumbered almost all British university libraries), and switching to Web 2.0 (which is too novel to Oxbridge), but not the minds of our uni and faculty...
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