The conduct of mainland university officials has been called into question again after the president of Zhejiang University was caught playing a computer poker game at a top-level symposium where controversial Peking University president Zhou Qifeng was also seen promoting a CD single featuring a song dedicated to his mother.
The photo of Yang Wei, president of the prestigious university in Hangzhou, one of the nation's oldest, was first posted on the internet on Sunday by a microblogger called 'Brother Daijun'.
He said the photo was taken at a symposium in Nanjing on Chinese culture attended by university presidents from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and the mainland.
Yang was caught playing the poker game while Professor Chang Hsin-kang, the former president of City University of Hong Kong, delivered a speech.
Calls to Yang's office and Zhejiang University's publicity department went unanswered yesterday.
The episode has been reported widely in mainland media and the original weibo entry on Sina.com was reposted more than 30,750 times, receiving more than 10,000 comments, by Sunday evening.
