I was told this story by one of the students involved.
A lecturer of Chinese was writing a book about China.
When the galley proofs arrived, he was too lazy to go through them himself, so he just handed out x pages per person in class and asked the students to proofread them.
They resented this but couldn’t refuse to do it, so they came up with a compromise: sabotage.
The student who told me the story said an old Chinese painting/illustration depicting a loom had come back from the printers with the Chinese characters mirror-imaged. The student proofreader let it go back to the printers as it was.
I had a copy of the published book at the time, so I checked. Yep, mirror-imaged.
(UK, 1980s)
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