Many Chinese ideas are deceased in world history yet behave in China as if alive： they are truly undead concepts. The West’s disregard for foreign socio-cultural originality has become a real problem for the rest […]
NEW VIDEO: “In January 2012, Mr. Pattberg presented a rough manuscript, ‘Shengren‘, to a committee of professors at Peking University, in which he proposed the revival of the Confucian 圣人 and the return of Chinese […]
BEIJING - I am as excited as you are that the new Yenching Academy of Peking University (PKU) [北京大学燕京学堂] has been successful established and is now recruiting its first 100 graduate students. This will be the […]
LOVERS of the Big Think will rejoice at hearing about the world’s largest migration of brain: The 24th World Congress of Philosophy. BEIJING - Thousands of philosophers are expected to descend upon China’s capital in 2018 […]
Peking University Cracks Down On Dissidents (R-rated) This article is about Corruption in Higher Education and is rated ‘R’: Under 17 Requires Accompanying Parent or Adult Reader.
NEW The East-West Dichotomy manifesto available from Foreign Language Press: Amazon.cn 东风与西风:一个德国人眼中的中西方文化 East Wind and West Wind: A German Scholar’s Meditations on the Differences between China and the West A UNIVERSE of differences separates the […]
YANG RUI - Famed Journalist, CCTV Host, and Political Commentator BEIJING – No other media figure has helped to accommodate –if not shape- China’s rise more in the recent decade than YANG Rui, the famed CCTV […]
“The global play goes on: together we will contribute a verse.” –WANG Enge: May you lead in interesting times BEIJING - Peking University is the leading institute of Higher education in China, and, because of […]
公开讲座：后翻译时代的到来以及中文术语的崛起 The Coming of Post-Translational Society and The Rise of Chinese Terminologies 【主 题】后翻译时代的到来以及中文术语的崛起 【主讲人】裴德思 博士 （Pattberg，Thorsten） 【时 间】2013年10月19日（周六），下午15：00-17：00 【地 点】云英语，北京市海淀区五道口华清嘉园商务会馆801 【工作语言】英文/中文 【主办方】云英语 讲座文章摘要 The English language is rich of foreign loanwords. Some languages were traditionally […]
北京大学高等人文研究院讲座：未来的全球语言与中文术语的崛起 The Future of Global Language and the Rise of Chinese Terminologies 【主讲人】裴德思 博士 （Pattberg，Thorsten） 【时 间】2013年10月17日（周四），下午15：00-17：00 【地 点】高等人文研究院，北京大学守仁国际研究中心 【主办方】北京大学高等人文研究院 讲座文章摘要 Chinese words are underrepresented in the English language for a variety of reasons but […]
Pattberg writes “Global Times Self-Parody” –Edward Wong, New York Times “The West only sees China through often biblical and philosophical European translations, and because all European vocabularies look familiar to Westerners, it has often been […]
“China is hungry for talent. Think about the environment, the arts, architecture, food industry, pharmacy, finance, automobile and transport – everything is bigger here than elsewhere.” BEIJING - China Today recently sat down with one […]
Stop Translation, Adopt Foreign Key Terms, Create Global Language (Shanghai Daily, Sept 2, 2013) “…the creator, when he arises, always finds himself overwhelmingly outnumbered by the inert uncreative mass…” –Arnold J. Toynbee I have been […]
Definition and Universality of the Zhongguo Meng “Promoting Chinese concepts in the rest of the world is not very difficult - stop translating key Chinese terminologies!” BEIJING - Latest op-ed for China Daily discusses Chinese […]
One of the most distinguished American sinologists, Roger T. Ames, has a great vision: Scholarship must get rid of the term ‘Confucianism’ (a Western word-creation) and instead should adopt the Chinese term: Ru (or Rujia). […]
BEIJING - Journalist, translator and writer Vaughan Winterbottom from China-Outlook sits down with Dr. Thorsten Pattberg to talk about league tables, the future of higher education in China, scholarships for foreigners, salary in China, and […]
“It is not enough to overthrow the enemy; first you have to overthrow the hold the enemies has over your dreams. You must not dream dreams which are really not yours.” –Slavoj Zizek PEKING UNIVERSITY […]
BEIJING – From July 12-14, 2013, Peking University, The Institute of World Literature, hosts one of the cultural key events the year entitled: COMPARING CHINA AND THE WEST - Dialogue, Equality, and Mutual Understanding and […]
How effective is China’s education if Chinese do not promote Chinese terminologies to the world? CHEN Zhili is the former Minister of Education of the People’s Republic of China, in charge of education, culture, and […]
TU Weiming on Diverse Confucianism, Chinese Long, China Dream, and Cultural Pluralism By Thorsten Pattberg BEIJING- Professor Tu Weiming held a lecture yesterday (June 8, 2013) at PKU on the occasion of the publication of […]
Government Organized ‘Non-Governmental Organizations’ (NGOs) in China “Pluralism or Civil society may NOT fit China.” BEIJING - Zhang Changdong (张长东), Professor of Political Studies at Peking University, gave a talk in Wudaokou’s famed Bridge Café […]
TOKYO - We need not memorizing all the world’s languages [computers will do that for us], but we should pay more attention to foreign key vocabularies and, if necessary, should promote nontranslatable, non-European originality into […]
TOKYO - Professor Michael Witzel, the sanskritist, classical philologist, scholar of comparative mythology, and author of The Origins of the World’s Mythologies, invited your author to Harvard in 2010 so that he could use library […]
China‘s Foreign Language Press endorses The East-West dichotomy BEIJING- China’s Foreign Language Press (FLP) is publishing a revised edition of The East-West dichotomy, a globalist text that has become one of the most widely read […]
Confessions of a Harvard Otaku PEKING UNIVERSITY- Ezra Vogel, Harvard professor and author of the infamous Japan as Numer One (ironically, it was a best-selling number one in Japan) visited The Institute of Advanced Humanistic […]
Ezra Vogel: The Joy of the Biographers (Peking University) Peking University, Stanford Center: Ezra Vogel talks about his latest book on Deng Xiaoping and the joy of the biographers On the joys of the biographers: […]
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Ezra Vogel draws crowds at Peking University, April 2013 BEIJING – Ezra Vogel, Harvard professor emeritus, political analyst, and one of America’s best-known public intellectuals on Asia, drew crowds today at Peking University, China’s leading […]
Josef Wieland: The Rules of the (Business) Game PEKING UNIVERSITY – Prof. Dr. Wieland spoke today on international ‘Standards, Concepts, and Best Practice in Business.’ March 26, 2013, Moonlight Hall, Yingjie Exchange Center, PKU. “Business ethics […]
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