{
  "id": 19757600,
  "title": "No research fund, no teaching job: late Chinese pianist’s note published by student",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/13/no-research-fund-no-teaching-job-late-chinese-pianists-note-published",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-11-13T04:23:21.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Reuters Business via SCMP",
    "slug": "reuters-business-via-scmp",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3374184/no-research-fund-no-teaching-job-why-chinese-pianist-bai-baoguo-took-his-own-life"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A Chinese pianist ordered to secure research funding to save his university job has died, while a note that he left exposing alleged malpractices at the institution was posthumously posted online by one of his students – with his family’s consent. The note was penned by Bai Baoguo. Born in 1972, Bai was an associate professor at the Yan’an University’s Luxun Academy of Fine Arts in Shaanxi…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}