When the media reported that Nanjing Forestry University had advised its students not to "overtly or excessively" express love on the campus and Wuhan Polytechnic University threatened to disqualify "student cadres" who hugged or kissed their lovers in public, I knew that commentators were bound to make a mountain out of a molehill.
Sure enough, one after another jumped into the fray - through newspapers, and blogs and other Internet channels - to denounce the universities from every possible angle, humanity and human rights to education philosophy and management ability.
After reading the commentaries, written in indignant, cynical or sarcastic tones, a question occurred to me: "Do the two schools really deserve such a criticism campaign?"
"College students have the freedom to love anyone and it is normal for them to express their affection overtly." This is the reason most of the commentators have given to support their arguments.
I think the arguments tantamount to forcing a fault on the accused. The Nanjing and Wuhan universities have not objected to love or banned intimate behavior. What the Nanjing university said was: "Caution, those who indulge in gongkai (overt) acts of guofen (excessive) intimacy on the campus." Any sensible Chinese knows what gongkai and guofen mean.
Boys and girls walking hand in hand or hugging and kissing are common scenes on campuses today - proof of how tolerant the authorities are with such behavior. But an intimate act with sexual implications in a public place is guofen behavior, which is exactly what the Nanjing university wants to stop.
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