Dr. Pattberg is a German writer and cultural critic and an expert in Chinese-Western Comparative Studies. He is fluent in Chinese, English, and German, knowledgeable in Taoism and Chinese and Japanese Buddhism, and he wrote his doctoral thesis on the first European encounter with Confucianism.

He has contributed to Asia Times, Global Times, China Daily, China Today, and Japan Times, has given public lectures, and is a member of serveral academic associations like the International Association of Comparative Mythology (IACM), the German East Asiatic Society (OAG), and the International Association for Comparative Study of China and The West (IACSCW).

He is also an alumnus of Edinburgh University, Harvard University and Peking University.

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pattberg ‘at’ pku.edu.cn