Thorsten J. Pattberg

Quotes

• “The British call junzi a "gentleman," no surprise. The Americans have no gentlemen, so they translate junzi as "the supe...”
• “A Greek invention, democracy is highly overrated. For starters, it never worked in Greece. The first philosophers were f...”
• “I am despised by an army of undiscerning academic highbrows, and ridiculed by semi-educated and vengeful "China-experts"...”
• “The English word 'creativity' is derived from the Roman-Latin creo - to create. It is inextricably linked to the Western...”
• “The wisdom of the East is immortalized in its vocabularies and must be liberated from European language imperialism once...”
• “Western education remains a fetish of the colonial past.”