Starfall Tongwen Museum

##Introduction to "Xingyun Tongwenkan" In the fifth year of Tongzhi, Hurd, the General Taxation Department of the Customs of the Qing Dynasty, brought back an astronomy teacher Fang Genba from England. Fang Genpu relied on his genius and refused to teach for two years, but asked for an observatory and special salary. Hurd fired him on the basis of the contract, but Fang Genba came back and used extraterritorial jurisdiction to sue Hurd for "unreasonable dismissal" in the British court in Shanghai, claiming compensation for 3,000 pounds. The jury actually won the verdict. Hart refused to accept the decision and appealed to the Privy Council in London. From the Prime Minister's Office in Beijing to the British Concession in Shanghai, from the embassy district of Dongjiaominxiang to Whitehall in London, a cross-oceanic game about contracts, integrity and rules begins. And when the Berlin Observatory issued a retraction statement revealing the truth that Fang Genba had falsified observation data, the outcome of this lawsuit was already doomed. This book is adapted from the real lawsuit between Hurd and Fang Genba, and the historical data comes from Wilt's "Hurd and China Customs". The story touches on issues such as academic fraud, scientific research integrity, and the spirit of contracts that are still echoing in academia today - a story about how rules can win a clean victory in the gunboat era.