摘要
n a recently published book entitled Worker Bees, The Life of Young Universi. Teachers, Lian Si, an associ-ate professor at the Beijing-based University of International Business and Economics, compared young college teachers to worker bees. Worker bees are at the lowest level of a bee colony, in which they feed the queen, drones and larva with food they have collect- ed, and perform other chores such as cleaning, repairing and defending the hive. The book is based on a survey of college faculty under the age of 40 in five cities-- Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou in southern Guangdong Province, Wuhan in central Hubei Province and Xi＇an in northwest- ern Shaanxi Province Ministry of Education Statistics from the show that as of theend of 2010, the number of college faculty under 40 surpassed 860,000 in China. ac- counting for 63.3 percent of the total.
In a recently published book entitled Worker Bees,The Life of Young University Teachers,Lian Si,an associate professor at the Beijing-based University of International Business and Economics, compared young college teachers to worker bees.
