Someone posing as a University of Cincinnati professor is trashing Americans in a Beijing newspaper.

        The May 7 China Daily essay by “Henry Howe” carried the headline:“American culture inspires war on campus.”

WHAT WAS SAID

Excerpts from the May 7 China Daily article attacking American culture attributed to a fictional Cincinnatian:     • “Within one month in March the whole world was once again stunned by four school gun bloodbaths in the United States, leaving many casualties, including children and teachers. ... Children's cradles have become slaughterhouses in the U.S.”     • “It is ironic that such a power is unable to police its own campuses at home and put an end to its school violence.”     • This reflects consumer passions for wealth and possessions that lead to a desire for power and acceptance of “jungle law” and “frustration or setbacks occur on a daily basis when people ... are caught between the inflamed personal desire for wealth and power and the rigid capital-dictatorship-based socio-economic structure.”     • “Driven by commercial interests, the American media are trying to lure young people by fantasizing about a world that is full of sensory pleasures, audio and visual.”    • “Gun violence, pornography, and superhuman ... forces are flooding U.S. TV programmes, films, the Internet, computer games and publications.”

        The article moves from school shootings to defense policy and the corrupting influences of capitalism before it closes by identifying Henry Howe as “a professor with Business School, University of Cincinnati, USA.”

        No such person is — or ever has been — affiliated with UC, spokesman Greg Hand said.

        UC was alerted to the article by Dennis P. Slevin, a professor of business administration at the University of Pittsburgh.

        He read the essay in Beijing and forwarded it to UC President Joseph A. Steger.

        That it was not written by an American was apparent even from the clumsy language in the passage identifying the author, Dr. Slevin said. Other phrasing and idioms persuaded him that “it was written in Chinese and translated into English.”

        Even in propaganda-saturated China, the anti-American sweep and vigor of the essay stood out, Dr. Slevin said.

        He said the UC tie might have been chosen because of the recent race riot.

        UC also received an e-mail about the essay from Edmund B. Raftis of Seattle. UC assured Mr. Raftis that Henry Howe was a fictitious name.

        Mr. Hand said this was the first time he could recall an article being attributed to a fictitious UC faculty member.

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