1.   The Chinese scholar Tang Chun-i made an important point that bears upon this discussion.

2.   Although Confucian orthodoxy has survived in Taiwan, only in Hong Kong and among Chinese scholars working in the West is there serious, ongoing Confucian philosophy.

3.   And Chinese research institutes that once welcomed foreign academics have become skittish about collaborations and risky research topics, Chinese scholars said.

4.   But Chinese scholars have a centuries-old tradition of collecting and valuing odd-shaped rocks and showing them among connoisseurs just as they would show art.

5.   But his father-in-law, Feng Yuanxin, was a prominent reform-minded official in Sichuan province at the time of the protests, one Chinese scholar said.

6.   But the ranks of American universities are filled with exiled Chinese scholars who clamored too loudly for democracy.

7.   Chinese scholars have recognized the limitations of this charge, and hooliganism will be replaced by several more specifically defined offenses in revisions to the criminal law.

8.   Chinese scholars and the report from Amnesty International propose major changes in legal practice that could help curb abuses.

9.   In Boston the Dalai Lama will meet with Chinese scholars and dissidents, and in Washington he will talk with government leaders.

10.   In Boston, during a visit to Brandeis University, he will meet the Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng and a number of Chinese scholars.