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I am not a professional historian. I think the worst thing Mr. Li Xueqin and his followers have done is an irreparable damage to the field of Chinese prehistorical archaeology very much like Lisenko have done to Russian biology. His theory will continue to poison the younger students even after his departure as the field is now dominated by his students. In China, this field currently splits into two camps: the "walking-out" faction who tries to uphold the old tradition, and the "archaeological" or "western liberal" faction who tries to introduce the skeptical tradition of the west. The former now dominates the academia and controls the public media while the latter becomes the cyber-dissident group.