Two Chinese professors, Yang Fan and Jin Shuren, were suspended from their jobs at the China University of Political Science and Law after getting in to an argument, the Beijing Morning Post reported on Monday.

Yang claims Jin plagiarized passages in her book, China's Human Resources Strategies in the 21st Century .

In a blog entry posted by Yang on Sunday on the sina.com.cn portal, he said he had received emails from an unnamed student on March 26 and April 6, which disclosed plagiarism in Jin's book.

Yang said those emails claimed up to 60 percent of China's Human Resources Strategies in the 21st Century was plagiarized from student's doctorate paper.

Yang's blog said Jin in turn reported him for plagiarizing students' work.

The argument between the two professors caught the media's attention.

The university, in an effort to protect its reputation, decided to suspend the two professors from their current jobs, the local paper said.

This is not the first time Yang has made news. He was in the headlines this January for a controversial reaction when one of his students left class during a lecture. Yang, thought the student was being disrespectful and the two go in to a fight.

(Xinhua News Agency October 13, 2008)