Thorsten Pattberg with ZHUO Xinping Director of the Institute of World Religions at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASS)

Thorsten Pattberg with ZHUO Xinping, Aug 2013

Professor ZHUO Xinping is the Director of the Institute of World Religions at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASS). He is also a former graduate of the University of Munich, Germany, and speaks fluent German with a wonderful Bavarian accent. De Mass, de Brezn, da Butter!

German Confucianism at Peking University

THIS PLACE is where I work, eat, sleep - 24/7. It’s a little building on PKU campus, close to the great lake. I got a gym card for daily shower. It’s the reclusive life of a junzi, no?

Anyways, it is here where I found inspiration for my essays on 'Shengren,' 'The End of Translation,' 'Vocab Wars,' 'Language Imperialism,' and 'Lingualism' which have been syndicated in East Asia's media, by circulation alone, millions of copies. [GO TO WEBSITE]