Xia Lin looked utterly disdainful at the mention of this fellow Shanghai native.
It was not that she was harsh. She had spent too long in this circle, and as a counselor herself, she knew exactly what caliber those people living off university positions really were.
At slightly better schools nowadays, researchers basically needed overseas experience. But that did not mean every teacher who returned from abroad had genuine ability.
Bai Feili was a typical fraud. This guy had earned two flimsy master's degrees that were practically available for money, then kept hitting walls in his job search. Left with no choice, he pulled some strings and got into a Chinese professor's lab to do grunt work. After struggling desperately to cobble together two papers, he barely met the graduation requirements and hurried back home to coast through life.
He had also gotten into Jiangcheng University through family connections. Of course, Jiangcheng University was still a legitimate Project 985 university. At most, they could give him a temporary up-or-out contract. If he wanted a permanent position, Bai Feili would still have to compete for it himself. Those connections could only get him this far.
"The Bai family isn't part of the academic circle, so they can't give him that much support... If they were a true scholarly family, they could escort him all the way through. Even someone at an ordinary student's level could be packaged as an academic rising star, but that would cost a lot."
"So that's how it is..." Su Bai satisfied his craving for gossip. "Could they package him into someone like Chen Yusheng?"
"Definitely not. Your Shengsheng has to take on projects. What projects could Bai Feili possibly handle at his level? When he was doing his PhD abroad, he even managed to raise the