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Dragons and Pandas at bigthink.com
CLICK IMAGE to go to DRAGONS AND PANDAS at bigthink.com ‘Panda, Umbrella, and Dragon’ by Cottondragon Please support and spread the word about our new project on bigthink.com DRAGONS AND PANDAS -...
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Beida vs Tsinghua – China’s world class universities and global players
West gate of Beida (left); West gate of Tsinghua (right). Beida vs Tsinghua – China’s world class universities and global players BEIJING– Beida and Tsinghua are the two most prominent universities in...
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Ezra Vogel: The Joy of the Biographers
Ezra Vogel 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...
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Confessions of a Harvard Otaku
Ezra Vogel and Tu Weiming at Peking University, April 2013 Confessions of a Harvard Otaku PEKING UNIVERSITY- Ezra Vogel, Harvard professor and author of the infamous Japan as Numer One (ironically, it...
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Foreign Language Press Endorses East-West dichotomy
Not quite there yet, but on the way… 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...
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Thorsten Pattberg meets famed culture maker Kaiser Kuo
Thorsten Pattberg meets famed culture maker Kaiser Kuo “Chinese as an international language is not going to happen if you push it. It is a pull-thing. People need to want it, to come here, and to...
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Having the Sovereignty over the Definition of Thought
Western domination over World History We have been there before. The West still cultivates the out-dated notion that “knowledge only exists if it’s the West that knows it.” The consequences of past...
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Francesco Sisci Says China And West Are Two Worlds Apart
“Machiavelli advised his prince in a fashion similar to an old Chinese master, or zi.” –Francesco Sisci Francesco Sisci Says China And West Are Two Worlds Apart “We can see it now, every day, China and...
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Michael Witzel, World History, and the Rise of Comparative Mythology
Thorsten Pattberg and Michael Witzel at Toho Gakkai in Tokyo, May 2013 TOKYO – Professor Michael Witzel, the sanskritist, classical philologist, scholar of comparative mythology, and author of The...
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The Coming of Post-Translational Society (and the Future of Global Language)
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...
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Pluralism, Civil Society and NGOs in China
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...
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TU Weiming on Diverse Confucianism, Chinese Long, China Dream, and Cultural...
The Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies (IAHS) at Peking University TU Weiming on Diverse Confucianism, Chinese Long, China Dream, and Cultural Pluralism By Thorsten Pattberg BEIJING- Professor...
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Global Language: Time for East Asia to abandon Western translations and adopt...
Thorsten Pattberg in Taipei Times about East-Asia and Global Language CHINA TENDS to be more relaxed about World history. It’s normal here that history is written by Westerners, or in the west,...
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Branding the Zhongguo Meng
Branding the Zhongguo Meng Your author recently asked a senior editor of the Peking University News department why they never continue Chinese vocabularies into their English news. She looked at him...
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How effective is China’s education if Chinese do not promote Chinese...
裴德思和陈至立 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...
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Peking University – Rise of the Junzi
BEIJING – This video clip, filmed on a bright Monday morning in June 2013 at Peking University, in one take, is a diary full of light and dark allusions, symbolism, and metaphors for China, China...
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Ta Kung Pao: The Rectification of Names, by Yi Xiangren (feat. Pattberg)
裴德思, 北京大学 This news article has been published in Ta Kung Pao 《大公报》, the “oldest active Chinese language newspaper in China” by YI Xiangren on 04 July 2013: 名不正言不顺\易湘壬...
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Peking University fetes Comparison between China and the West, July 12-14, 2013
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...
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G K Chadha, President of South Asian University, gives powerful talk about...
Tu Weiming and G K Chadha, June 2013 BEIJING – Tu Weiming and G K Chadha: “ India and China should come together, join power, and set the international agenda.” This talk was hosted by The Institute...
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Gu Zhengkun – Social Contract versus Family Contract: Confucian Family Values...
Gu Zhengkun: Confucian Family Values as Universal Values Gu Zhengkun – Social Contract versus Family Contract: Confucian Family Values as Universal Values by Gu Zhengkun [Abstract] This paper aims to...
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