Publisher told to stop supplying fake dictionary
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The Hubei Province education authority said yesterday that it had ordered a publisher, Chongwen, to stop distributing dictionaries amid allegations they were fake.
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A CCTV report claimed that Hubei's Department of Education had distributed 3.2 million volumes of fake Xinhua Dictionary - filled with errors - to rural students under a government aid program. [Video clip] |
The provincial agency has promised to punish anyone involved in the fraud and won't pay for the dictionaries till the investigation is completed.
A CCTV report claimed that Hubei's Department of Education had distributed 3.2 million volumes of fake Xinhua Dictionary - filled with errors - to rural students under a government aid program.
"The pirated copies had 0.2 percent printing errors, nearly 20 times more than allowed," said Zhou Mingjian, former deputy director of China Lexicographic Society.
Zou Huaqing, deputy director of the substandard dictionary's publisher Chongwen Publishing House, said Yang Heming, a literature professor with Wuhan University, and several other experts had edited the dictionary. But Yang has denied any involvement.
There is no credit to any authors in the dictionary.
Another 600,000 volumes were being printed which would be delivered to students.
Changjiang Publishing & Media Co Ltd, Chongwen's parent company, said it will destroy the dictionaries if the piracy allegations are confirmed.
Lexicographic experts also found the copies were made from ordinary papers rather than dictionary-customized papers, CCTV claimed.
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