Lothar Spree passed away in Berlin

Another good man of the Sino-German connection, Lothar Spree, the late Shanghai media professor and educator at Tongji University in Shanghai, has passed away in Berlin on Dec 6, 2013. He was 71 years young. [Read obituary at Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG) Offenbach]

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