IN SHANSHAN county in the western region of Xinjiang, efforts in May to promote "ethnic-harmony education month" were declared a success after official lecture teams delivered more than 100 speeches on the topic to 80,000, mostly Muslim, residents.
Mr Zhou says the issue has created a crisis of trust within the party, as officials lecture subordinates on patriotism and incorruptibility, but send their own families abroad.You do not have to be corrupt to be "naked", however.
Indeed while various officials lecture Cuba on human rights and democratization, it must be acknowledged that they do so from an extremely awkward position while the US continues to operate a veritable torture dungeon in their country.
In an email to Science, he wrote that Shorter's talk was not "an official ME/CFS lecture.
That counted for precious little at the Copenhagen summit on climate change, when Wen Jiabao, the prime minister, sent a junior official to lecture the leader of the free world.
A decade ago, American businessmen were poring over Japanese management manuals, American factory workers were bristling at condescending remarks by Japanese leaders, and Japanese finance officials were lecturing President George Bush about his economic recession and daunting budget deficit.
Our governing officials often lecture to the world on human rights abuses abroad.
Recently, at meetings of the People's Committees, Party officials gave lectures about the young man whom the leadership calls the "young general" or "brilliant comrade".
Once, he sent federal officials to lecture experienced scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in Atlanta, on the value of refraining from sex.
One Twitter user challenged Rogozin's statement on Madonna, tweeting: "She spoke about freedom, it's government officials that lecture us every day on all the state channels".
