Peking University - Rise of the junzi

Peking University - Rise of the junzi

PKU is the mother lode of Chinese education, and Confucianism (rujia) wants to cultivate the 'junzi' - the ideal scholar. At the Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies, Pattberg explains how an old tradition is on the march again. [BACK TO MAIN]

How to Promote Chinese (or any other) Culture to the World

SOME LANGUAGES are weaker than others when it comes to adaption, survival, and - eventually - dominating others. [READ BLOG AT BIG THINK]

China is not the only modern nation that rose to become a superpower, but it is the first that doesn't have an alphabet.

The letters Chinauses for phonetic transcription today – called 'pinyin' – had been imported from the West. Originally, the Chinese characters' pronunciation had to be memorized from the go-get. There are some 45,000 of them!

So unless the world is switching into rote learning mode any time soon, which is unlikely because English with its 26 letters is so much more lucid, how could the Chinese language neverthelessinfluence the way people all over the world think (and act)?

The solution is simple but takes guts to implement: Stop translating Chinese key terminologies. Here's why: READ IT AT SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST.

Shanghai memories

Good memories from Shanghai in summer 2005. Had spent the academic years 2003/04 at Fudan University and 2004/05 at Peking University. Was about to return to Edinburgh in late August 2005. Experienced difficult times. Lost about 10 kg that year. But grateful and happy.
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