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“The office in Taipei was an important step for our editorial team,” says Philipp Bilsky. At Deutsche Welle, he is responsible for everything that is published in Chinese. The 45-year-old set up his editorial team’s first office in the Chinese-speaking world in Taipei. From 2018, he worked there for more than four years; meanwhile, he […] continue reading →

Andreas Risch explains the reason why he moved to China as follows: “In Germany, you are very much concerned with risks and internal processes. In China, you are primarily concerned with meeting customer requirements.” Since 2016, Risch has been the managing director of the China division of Fette Compacting, the global market leader for solutions […] continue reading →

“It is our task to keep the political dialogue alive,” Johann Fuhrmann says about his work in China. Since July 2021, the 38-year-old is in charge of the office of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) in the Chinese capital. Earlier this year, he managed to enter the country and has since worked permanently on-site in Beijing again. […] continue reading →

“There are 2300 different types of bread in Germany,” says Feng Yitong. “And I made it my goal to try them all.” Feng is 26 years old and a master’s degree student in illustration at the University of the Arts in Berlin. “Even during my bachelor’s degree in my hometown of Xi’an, I dreamed of […] continue reading →

Clauß Essers considers himself a technophile. He originally wanted to study electrical engineering, but then became a patent attorney. He came to study law thanks to his father and uncle. “At some point, a client of mine was thinking about how he could sign contracts with Chinese SMEs.” From that day on, China never left […] continue reading →

“Books are my source for new thoughts and other perspectives,” says Nora Gantert, who grew up in the German city of Freiburg im Breisgau as the daughter of a bookseller. “They make you curious about the world, about the different – and at the same time show that this different doesn’t have to be foreign […] continue reading →

Twenty years ago, Rolf Langhammer embarked on a journey. It brought him to China in the early 20th century, a fragmented country ruled by warlords between tradition and cultural renewal. And eventually even to modern Shanghai. He was able to orient himself by using the many traces his grandfather had left behind during his years […] continue reading →

On YouTube with creative DIY videos, on the big stage on German television and in the ear wherever podcasts are available. Versatility is what distinguishes Hang-Shuen Lee. The Hong Kong native is a freelance journalist. Alternating with Steffen Wurzel, she hosts the ARD podcast “Welt.Macht.China” and explores the question of what makes China a world […] continue reading →

Alexandra Stefanov keeps the German China community up to date on digital issues – and helps with everyday problems: “Many are surprised that they don’t get a quick response from China to their e-mails.” Stefanov knows why. Everything happens on the WeChat app in the People’s Republic. The 34-year-old also founded the consulting company China-Impulse […] continue reading →

On Thursday, Robert Tsao stepped into the flashbulbs of photojournalists, wearing a bulletproof vest. At his press conference in downtown Taipei, the already graying businessman had an urgent message ready for his compatriots: “China is anxious to attack Taiwan,” said the 75-year-old, who at one point was one of the island’s richest residents with a […] continue reading →

Sometimes the right timing is crucial for success. This is what Nargiza Salidjanova experienced herself. “My career in China studies has been characterized by really good timing so far,” says the current Director of the China department at Rhodium Group, an independent research institute headquartered in New York. When Salidjanova first began to focus more […] continue reading →

In China, sympathy for Mikhail Gorbachev’s death is extremely reserved. Even more: The death of the 93-year-old is commented on with a good portion of malice and malicious joy. Commentator Wuwei Li writes to his almost 900,000 followers on Weibo that Gorbachev only deserves “contempt”: “He was a lame, incompetent, cowardly politician” who serves as […] continue reading →

Xiaolong Hu has learned that sometimes things just fall into place. “I chose German at the time because of a combination of sympathy and chance,” he recalls of the pioneering choice of a so-called small language. Today, this term still makes him smirk. In 1988, the self-employed management consultant and China coach was faced with […] continue reading →

“The negative image of China has made my work more difficult,” says Nora Frisch. With the books published by her Drachenhaus publishing house, the sinologist, who was educated in Vienna, Beijing, Taipei and Heidelberg, actually wants to present China’s diversity outside the realm of economics and politics – a diversity that is unfortunately often neglected […] continue reading →

“In our family, there was always the funny anecdote that my grandpa only takes cold showers,” Weina Zhao says. “It wasn’t until I researched for my film Weiyena that I found out why.” Weina Zhao was born in Beijing and moved to Vienna with her family when she was three years old. Her parents even […] continue reading →

So far, 2022 has been a disastrous year for Asia’s richest woman: Yang Huiyan has lost more than half of her fortune, which once totaled nearly $24 billion. And now her real estate company Country Garden is also facing serious liquidity problems. The story of the just 41-year-old entrepreneur is symbolic of the drastic transformations […] continue reading →

The impressions of his first trip to China have left a lasting impression on Nis Gruenberg. Even today, when he thinks back on it, he is overcome with such intense emotion that the half-Dane is left speechless. “Mindblowing,” the lead analyst of the Berlin research institute Merics told China.Table instead: simply overwhelming. That was 18 […] continue reading →

The Chinese propaganda apparatus currently has plenty of work on two fronts. The party congress is coming up in the fall. It is only helpful if the vast majority of citizens are convinced that the promised “common prosperity” is still a realistic goal. However, parts of the international community are increasingly skeptical about the People’s […] continue reading →