She and her husband felt that Beijing opera perpetuated feudal bourgeois ideology with what Mao called "kings and ministers, talented scholars and beautiful women, monsters and demons".
Richardson, an Irish-born former Harvard professor and principal of the University of St Andrews, argued that one of Oxford's biggest challenges was in identifying and attracting talented scholars.
It is difficult to imagine why talented scholars and scientists, and students for that matter, should want to make their careers or study in a country unable to admit a handful of refugee children without a tabloid firestorm demanding dental checks.
In the last half-century U.S. higher education attracted the most talented scholars and students from here and abroad.
Though not a scholar himself, he was sympathetic to talented scholars and seems to have had the rare knack of making money while publishing scholarly books.
Above all else, I feel lucky to have achieved a tenure-track position at a time when many talented scholars fail to do so, and am excited at the thought of becoming a faculty member at a great school where the people are exceptionally nice.
