Thorsten J. Pattberg

“The wisdom of the East is immortalized in its vocabularies and must be liberated from European language imperialism once and for all.”

“I am despised by an army of undiscerning academic highbrows, and ridiculed by semi-educated and vengeful "China-experts" whose era of translating Chinese into Western categories has now come to an end. The public is ready for non-European vocabularies.”

“Tourists and imperialists do not come to be taught. They call things the way they call things at home.”

“Western education remains a fetish of the colonial past.”