"There are no taboos in the field of research, but to do this directly in the course of teaching is obviously not appropriate," the paper quoted Tian Junting, a culture ministry official, as saying.
The naked lecture made many of the 30 or so students feel "uneasy," the paper said. "Some kept their eyes trained on the ceiling, some awkwardly bowed their heads and stared at the ground".
If nudity isn't taboo then, I don't know what is. What the minister said sounds like something you'd hear from Stalin's regime.. "There is no poverty".
That's exactly why a professor in an culturally and politically oppressive country like China needs to strip in front of the class.