Last month, a photo of Jackie Chan went viral on China’s social media channels. Netizens commented on the picture, which was taken at an event in Sichuan province, that the actor had aged shockingly. The once so vital action hero is only human, users who grew up with his films wrote. Jackie Chan celebrates his […]
US media have played a key role in shaping the Western public’s perception of China for decades. For Mike Chinoy, the first bureau chief of the US television station CNN in Beijing, their work thus has a tangible historical dimension. “Journalists write the first draft of history,” is one of the sentences he uses to […]
“Law and Europe – European Law” is certainly a lifelong theme for him, explains Johannes Laitenberger. Born in Hamburg in 1964, he has worked in EU institutions for almost 30 years. He first spent three years in the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union, then from 1999 to 2019 in the Commission, […]
Barbara Gessler knows Berlin well. She worked at the European Commission Representation in Berlin from 1998 to 2003. Back then, today’s European House at the Brandenburg Gate did not exist. “I knew this building before it even existed,” says the 59-year-old. “And I also know Potsdamer Platz as a tabula rasa.” Even in all the […]
“你好，欢迎收听故事FM。我是爱哲，一个收集故事的人。在这里，我们用你的声音讲出你的故事.” – “Hello and welcome to Gushi FM. I am Aizhe, a person who collects stories. Here, we tell your story in your own voice.”This is how almost every episode of Gushi FM, one of China’s most popular podcasts, begins. The stories come from people who appear ordinary yet have extraordinary tales to tell. A […]
A book about a German dog who moves to China and is surprised by the enormous hustle and bustle during the Chinese New Year is the beginning of a series of children’s books by Rabea Glotz. It all began a few years ago when Glotz and her husband decided to move to China. “To prepare […]
Félix Bolaños is the most powerful man in Pedro Sánchez’s government. Since November 2023, Bolaños has been Minister for the Presidency, Justice and Parliamentary Relations. The super minister is one of the architects of the amnesty law, which aims to ensure that Catalan separatists remain unpunished for crimes such as corruption, embezzlement and terrorism. During […]
Among Katja Schmidt-Wistoff‘s favorite authors are Georg Büchner, Franz Kafka, Siegfried Lenz, Thomas Bernhard and Juli Zeh. “I highly recommend them to the students,” she says. The students, in her case, are the adolescents of the German Embassy School in Beijing. Schmidt-Wistoff has been working at the German school in the Chinese capital as head […]
For his Master’s degree in Oxford, Roderick Kefferpütz chose a focus that was a real niche topic at the beginning of the millennium: Russian security policy. Other topics attracted more students to the traditional British university after the end of the Cold War. And so Kefferpütz sat alone opposite his professor week after week. It […]
Her feminist commitment, according to curator and art critic Juan Xu, is fueled by the experiences of several generations. Even before she says a word about herself, she talks about her grandmother, who became a widow at the age of 20. She was not allowed to work, marry or even be seen by strangers for […]