Thorsten Pattberg with Wang Jisi, China’s most respected expert on the United States

裴德思和王缉思（09/2013）

Wang Jisi is Professor and the Dean of the School of International Studies at Peking University. In 2012, he was named one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers and “China’s most respected expert on the United States” by Foreign Policy magazine. He is or was also the supervisor of quite a few of my friends here, so it was good to see him in public at ThinkInChina in Bridge Cafe in Beijing today. Go to Wang’s Talk. Go to ThinkInChina. Go to Foreign Policy.

Thorsten Pattberg with Ashis Nandy, Famed Indian Sociologist and Public Intellectual

Thorsten Pattberg with Ashis Nandy, famed Indian sociologist and public intellectual

BEIJING - Described as the champion of India’s lower classesand promoter of human rights, justice, and equality in an India that is notoriously plagued by corruption, caste, and almost unbearable income inequality, letting alone political chaos. Ashis Nandy is one of the leading figures of post-colonial studies in India, and known for his bold, controversial, and fearless critique of the establishment. Recently, Nandy is engaging in the Dialogue among Civilizations with China, and joined the Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies of Peking University at the Deng Feng Forum in Henan province entitled: Chinese Civilization and World Civilization.

[The Nandy Affair/The New Yorker] [A Conversation withNandy/New York Times]

Pattberg with Roger T. Ames, August 2013

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With friend and spiritual mentor Roger T. Ames, sinologist, educator, and ethicist of Hawaii University. Roger believes we should get rid of the term ‘Confucianism’ and call it by its real name: Rujia or Ruxue:

“I am not saying that ruxue has the answers to the world’s problems; but it has very important contribution to make.”

Roger T. Ames: We are getting rid of the term 'Confucianism'

Roger T. Ames: The Class of Ru

Pattberg meets Chomsky at Harvard Kennedy School, April 2010

Meet Noam Chomsky, the master of public intellectualism, who is also the founder of modern linguistics. Here at Harvard Kennedy School, April 2010:

Pattberg with Chomsky at Harvard Kennedy School