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Thorsten J. Pattberg

PhD
Associate
IDT Institute, Tokyo
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Japan
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Tokyo
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English,
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Asia/Tokyo

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Bio

Thorsten J. Pattberg, PhD is a famous German philosopher and cultural critic, columnist, and blogger. He is famous as initiator of China‘s Cultural Thought Program and Key Terminologies of Chinese Culture and Thought under Xi Jinping. Pattberg got people‘s attention in China with his doctoral dissertation from Peking University about the untranslatable Shengren. Pattberg also writes about Taoism, Confucianism, and East-West Dichotomy. He is the author of over thirty books.

Current position (1)

Associate

IDT Institute, Tokyo

Degrees (5)
Literature
Peking University
2006 to 2011
Sanskrit and Hindu Studies
Harvard University
2010 to 2020
Buddhism
University of Tokyo
2008 to 2009
Asian Studies
University of Edinburgh
2001 to 2006
Sanskrit
Fudan University
2003 to 2004

Presentations

Presentations (22)
Corruption in China: Meditations on Salary, Mistresses, Confucianism, and Chinese Academia

Four thought-provoking essays by German writer and cultural critic Dr. Thorsten J. Pattberg on Chinese corruption during the Xi Jinping era, addressing the issues of full salary, mistress culture, new Confucianism, and rampant cronyism in China’s academia.

China Hands Handbook: Global Civilization Initiative

The global media won’t report Asian names correctly, our NATO socialists are declaring war on Russian and China, Woke Germany commits genocide on its own people for the Blood Good of the Iews, Japan officials implement the retard badges for plague deniers, and China’s Xi Jinping calls out the Global Civilization Initiative, but not on Taiwan’s terms. These and more hot mantou buns are served with excruciating honesty. A MUST READ for all China hands [who are soon to be declared terrorists].

The Book Of Tokyo: Japan And Other Social Evils

Our colonial subjects in Japan* do crazy stuff like wearing ‘retard badges’ for three years or commit mass Hikkimori. They also mutilate their underclass, bought 20 million pet dogs last year, and sent their few surviving kids to Akuma No Juku or “the Cram Schools from Hell.” This is a social horror compilation from the cradle of Hentai-Porn, Micro-Bento and Crazy Toilets. A guide to unspeakable social degeneracy and mental illnesses never reported in mainstream academia.

*Also: The Empire of Sanctions [and Lies] takes advantage of its Colony Japan to militarize the entire Pacific.

The Menticide Manual: How To Destroy The Mind

The Menticide Manual is a horror series on the Internet that “will introduce to our distinguished readers the most deadly ways to subvert, to demoralize, to lobotomize and finally to liquidize someone‘s brains… until they are reduced to nothing more than another helpless Schizo Fran or Mona Loser ready for suicide or the local madhouse.”

Shove Your Democracy: With An Essay On The Transformation Of Germany

A macabre, eye-cutting and humiliating keyboard attack on so-called Western “democracy” and how the horrible, horrible United States in general [Part I] and in particular that US puppet regime in Germany [Part II] told us way too many lies and screwed up BIG TIME.

The Human Hierarchy: With A Reminder About A Place For China

Who are the anciet MoS - the Masters of Speech? And what is their cosmic god LoD - the Law of Difference? Let us concur the origin and purpose of Humanity [with a capital 'H'], its historic trajectory, its master narrative and its permanent place for China.

Finis Sinarum: Why China Cannot Win This

Finis Sinarum, the record of secret meetings of Harvard leaders and Peking University dons, describes the conspiracy to dominate global academia.

Press Soldiers: How Western journalists subvert and destabilize China

The presentation at hand is a provisional ‘work in progress’—commentaries and observations really—about a brutal phenomenon that is possibly among the last taboos to speak of in publishing: how a certain group of men and women of letters calling themselves ‘journalists’ serve not as bringers of news but as the foot soldiers in a Western war of subversion and regime change against China. Some of their militant tactics, their methodology, their unscrupulousness (shamelessness) shall be exemplified and immortalized in here.

Language Imperialism & The End of Translation

'Language Imperialism' is the translation of foreign key terminologies into familiar vocabulary of one’s own language tradition in order to claim Deutungshoheit, to diminish another culture’s originality, or to pretend to have full comprehension of a foreign topic by simply switching into one’s own lingua. So even if a nation is not strong enough to impose its own language over another’s, like Germany could never conquer the Chinese people, it could always try to steal important cultural property by giving it German names.

The Xin-Civilization: What The Chinese Can And Can‘t Do

“In the East, a Xin-Civilization—or "New Civilization"—is being forged, more intelligent and more technological than anything we have seen before.”

The Institute For Difference And Time: IDT (c) 4021

IDT stands for precise and effective manipulation of difference and time. The Institute is the first visible of its kind since the discovery of the Law of Difference and its implications for creatives and time curators. The Institute’s aim is to help humanity to achieve its full potential by expanding its cognitive representation and by breaching out into the two new dimensions.

Shengren - Above Philosophy and Beyond Religion

The shengren is the single most important concept in Chinese tradition. Since the Europeans had not anything like it, but refused to hold the candle to China; instead they withheld the shengren and talked about some lesser versions of (Greek) philosophers or (Christian) holy men. The Anglo-Saxons soon found a slighty better translation; they called the shengren sages. The Germans however, the descendants of the Holy Roman Empire of German Nation, never had a concept for sages or sagehood. In their effort to Christianize China, the Germans called the shengren saints. With little regard for what was actually written in the Chinese texts, the European imperialists soon engaged in a fierce battle of control over China's most valuable possessions: its names.This study is about sages, sage culture, countries without sages, language imperialism, and the story of the shengren.

Diary of a Mad Imperialist: With an Essay on the Spirit of the German People

German culture is unique, not universal. Certain characteristics explain why Germany became what it became, and did onto others what it had to. Ever since their discovery of China, German missionaries and philosophers had feverishly tried to convert the Chinese to Christianity and the Greco-Hellenic ways. That included a form of brutal ‘language imperialism' by which all important Chinese key terminologies were translated into biblical and philosophical words and categories. The result, to this day, is a German ‘Chinabild’ [China image] that is virtually Chinese-free.

Rueful Addiction: There is no Censorship

A collection of talks on Cultural Marxism, obsessive speech codes, political correctness, internet trolling, hateful politics, and fake news media.

Knowledge Is A Polyglot: How To Translate Chinese Key Terminologies

Many Europeans and Americans want to know what the West can learn from China. They clearly sense the uniqueness and singularity of the Chinese tradition, yet they cannot quite put it into words. That’s because Western languages don’t have the words for it: Only China possesses and owns the correct Chinese names for its inventions and ideas. [...] A future global language without the contribution from China seems unthinkable to us.

Holy Confucius!: European Translations of ‘Shengren’ in the Analects

The Chinese term 聖 sheng (simplified: 圣) appears eight times in six paragraphs in the Analects of Confucius (Lun Yu). I looked at all the major European translations between 1649 to 2009, and found major inconsistencies. The first Latin and French texts mentioned 'wise men'. The favorite English translations for 聖人shengren were 'the sages', followed by 'the philosophers' - which is not the same. However, the most astonishing anomaly is the widely accepted German translation 'the saints' (die Heiligen), followed by many more outliers such as 'the god-like', 'the holy sages', 'geniuses', 'cultural heroes', 'appointees' and so on. This could mean that the last word has not been spoken yet, and that the final term for shengren is still out there.

Inside Peking University

nside Peking University is a collection of four critical and timeless essays by German cultural master and Confucian scholar Dr. Thorsten J. Pattberg of Peking University on the Chinese concepts of daxue, shengren, junzi, boshi, wenming, the Qingming Festival, and long (the Chinese dragon). Dr. Pattberg argues for example that the shengren of East-Asia are largely overlooked: They are a class of their own, like the buddhas. To translate them as “philosophers” or “saints” seems imperialistic and all-too-convenient. The shengren are above philosophy and beyond religion –they are quite un-European, and so are the other Chinese concepts advocated in this book. The cases presented in here are emblematic of the widespread abuses of translations in 'Cultural Studies' which, so argues Dr. Pattberg, have distorted the reality of cultural China and subsequently have helped the West to tilt 'World History' toward European sovereignty over definition and classification of thought. The first essay,

21st Century Philosophy: The revolution and counter-culture in philosophy and Eastern thought that h

I. BEWARE OF UNIVERSAL ETHICS; II. HOW TO BECOME A SPIRITUAL LEADER; III. LORD PRESS FREE-DOOM; IV. THE COMPETITION FOR IDEAS; V. A NEW WORLD LANGUAGE; VI. CENSORS AND PROPAGANDISTS; VII. THE LACKADAISICAL IMPERIALIST; VIII. I WAS MADE FOR ACADEMIA; IX. REGIME CRITIC

LINGUALISM - How Nations Compete For Terminologies: A New Frontier in Culture Studies

Dr. Pattberg brought back the “shengren” to two billion East-Asians, and is the leader of a Confucian movement in Europe. He has published widely on Language Imperialism, the End of Translation, and the Future of Global Language. His efforts have now culminated in LINGUALISM, the bold proposal that asks nations to compete for their terminologies just like they compete for everything else in the world. This is a game-changing text: culturally significant, highly provocative, and, above all, globally relevant.

The EURO-Tao: Taoism in European Culture

A brief introduction to Taoism in European culture, by Dr. T. J. Pattberg.

Fourth Reich, The Law, And The Fifth Dimension: Oppression In Germany

Oppression in Germany Not Seen Since Pre-1848 Revolution:
What Is The Fourth Reich?
Lessons From The Second Reich
The German Obsession With Hate Speech
Analyzing Oppression
The Reich And Its People
The Floor For Rats And Snitches
Arrest Them All!
The Nature Of The Law
The Nature Of The “Constitution”
The Great Oppression Game
The Species Is Not Afraid To Die
You Don’t Want To Be In Germany Right Now
Still Want To Complain?
This Revolution Goes To Jail
Final Warning
Thorsten J. Pattberg Ph.D. is a political writer and cultural critic from Germany.

How We Will Write in the Future

Consider how much more beautiful and authentic and sophisticated and accurate our world would become if we could appreciate the key terminologies of all cultures.

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Books & Articles (92)

The Menticide Manual: How To Destroy The Mind
LoD Press, New York,
2022
The Human Hierarchy: With A Reminder About A Place For China
LoD Press, New York,
2021
Press Soldiers: How Western journalists subvert and destabilize China
LoD Press, New York,
2018
Shove Your Democracy: With An Essay On The Transformation Of Germany
LoD Press, New York,
2021
Corruption in China: Meditations on Salary, Mistresses, Confucianism, and Chinese Academia
LoD Press, New York,
2015
Fourth Reich, The Law, And The Fifth Dimension: Oppression In Germany
IDT Institute, Tokyo,
2023
Finis Sinarum: Why China Cannot Win This
IDT Institute, Tokyo,
2022
21st Century Philosophy: The revolution and counter-culture in philosophy and Eastern thought that have swept academia, media, and everyday life
LoD Press, New York,
2018
The Xin-Civilization: What The Chinese Can And Can‘t Do
LoD Press, New York,
2022
Knowledge Is A Polyglot: How To Translate Chinese Key Terminologies
LoD Press, New York,
2021
The Institute For Difference And Time: IDT (c) 4021
LoD Press, New York,
2021
Rueful Addiction: There is no Censorship
LoD Press, New York,
2019
Die Lehre vom Unterschied (German Edition)
LoD Press, New York,
2022
China Hands Handbook: Global Civilization Initiative
LoD Press, New York,
2023
Diary of a Mad Imperialist - With an Essay on the Spirit of the German People
LoD Press, New York,
2018
We Told You So: One Hundred Insanities Of Internet Life
LoD Press, New York,
2021
Lingualism - How Nations Compete For Terminologies: A New Frontier in Culture Studies
LoD Press, New York,
2016
The Euro-Tao
LoD Press, New York,
2016
Inside Peking University: Four Essays
LoD Press, New York,
2012
Holy Confucius!: European Translations of ‘Shengren’ in the Analects
LoD Press, New York,
2022
The East-West dichotomy
Foreign Language Press, Beijing,
2009
Shengren - Above Philosophy and Beyond Religion
LoD Press, New York,
2012
It's Shengren, stupid!
Long into the West's dragon business
Falsch Uebersetztes Chinesisch
East-West dichotomy revisited
Language Imperialism - Democracy in China
Global language with Chinese Characteristics
Bigger than the Buddhas
Diary of a Mad Imperialist
Abschied nehmen von Ji Xianlin
Sprachen-Imperialismus
How Western Translations Distort China's Reality
Dead in Translation
Language and Empire: My language, Your prison
East may finally triumph in linguistic battles
China: Lost in Translation
The Confucian Way of Europe
China: Lost in Translation II
Ending the myths about translation
Streit zwischen Japan und China um Diaoyu Inseln
The End of Translation and the Rise of Chinese Terminology
Shengren? Nein, danke!
La fin de la traduction
Por qué Occidente deja a un lado los conceptos ingeniosos chinos
La hegemonía del lenguaje: ¡Es ‘shengren’, estúpido!
“My name is Long, Chinese Long” (ita) Italy
Europe's path to a new humanism
Do not confuse Confucius with Christian Saint Nicholas
A Confucian Christmas in China
翻译的终结
中国的儒家圣诞节
How to Become a Spiritual Leader
A Call to Promote Chinese Terminologies
The Qingming Festival
Truly global vocabulary needs untranslatable Chinese terms
The Post-Translational Society
How bad is corruption in China today?
促进中国术语使用的倡议书
La Fiesta Qingming
This is the Chinese Dream (Zhongguo Meng)
Constructing an American Confucianism
Why I am So Sure - Rise Tianxia, Rise!
The Public Intellectual and the Marketing of World History
Chinas Universitäten: Daxue oder "Das Grosse Lernen"
Sprachimperialismus: Was gibt's in China, wenn nicht "Demokratie"?
The perils of being associated with China
12 Years in China - Reflections - T J Pattberg
How China's Ivy League Obsession Shortchanges Homegrown Universities
德国哲学家:中国文化是时候反击了
Free Asia-Pacific from Western hold (China Daily)
The rising cult of China experts
Times and culture beckon Confucius back (China Daily)
Films vis-a-vis nations’ global role (China Daily)
Chinese are not so foolish as to worship at the church of Western values (SCMP)
德国哲学家:中国应向世界推广中文用词
Pattberg: ¿Apoyar la creación de un lenguaje universal para un mundo globalizado?
德国学者裴德思说:包子烤鸭不需要翻译 (北京日报)
Everything is NOT awesome (Ai Weiwei) (British GQ Magazine)
Star Wars is Taoism in American garb (China Daily)
House of Mei a legacy of Peking Opera (The Telegraph)
A Song of Winter and Spring (China Daily)
Democracy is the opiate of history’s losers, as Japan proves (South China Morning Post)
All you need to know about the BRICS 2017 Summit in China (New Delhi Times)
US airlines following the piper’s tune (China Daily)
Lovers have more days to spend together (China Daily)
Zhu Bajie y Peppa Pig: arquetipos universales de optimismo y abundancia (People.cn)
The pig as universal archetype of optimism (China Daily)
Cultural Diversity Key To A Better World: an Eastern perspective (The Telegraph)
Political Correctness is Preventing Child Births in Japan (Japan Today)
Use these 10 powers of Tao and become an exemplary person (Sivana East)
Reassure HK, remind Britain SAR no longer a British ‘colony’ (China Daily)

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