“Hardly anyone in Germany is interested in philosophy,” says Ole Doering. In China, on the other hand, there is a high regard for the discipline running through all levels of society. Doering has been a professor of comparative cultural studies at Shifan University in Changsha, in the province of Hunan, for two years. He is campaigning “for more Germans to come to China, simply to study here, to experience the freedoms that one has here in research, especially as a foreigner.”
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