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DAAD China Info 

Die Zeitschrift der DAAD Außenstelle in Beijing 

www.daad.org.cn 

postmaster@daad.org.cn 

Aufbruchstimmung in der chinesischdeutschen 

Bildungskooperation 

Zahlreiche deutsche 

Spitzenuniversitäten 

präsentieren sich 

auf einer DAAD- 

Konferenz in 

Peking 

„Prospects of Higher 

Education in Germany“, 

so lautete der Titel einer 

Tagung, zu der der 

DAAD am 21. Mai ins 

Landmark Hotel nach 

Peking geladen hatte. 

Ein aus-gezeichneter Rahmen also, um die 

vielfältigen Reformen, die in der 

deutschen Hochschul- und Forschungslandschaft 

derzeit vonstattengehen, zu 

beleuchten. 

Als Gastgeber hieß der Generalsekretär 

des DAAD, Dr. Christian Bode, 

die über 200 Gäste, darunter zahlreiche 

hochrangige Vertreter chinesischer und 

deutscher Hochschulen, willkommen. 

Unter diesen befanden sich die ehemalige 

Vizeministerin für Bildung und jetzige 

DAAD-Alumna 

stellvertretende UNO- 

Generalsekretärin 

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Asha-Rose 

Mtengeti-Migiro 

1988 

DAAD Universität 

Konstanz 1992 

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Vizepräsidentin der Chinese Association 

of Science and Technology (CAST), Frau 

Prof. Wei Yu, sowie die Generalsekretärin 

des China Scholarship Council (CSC), 

Frau Zhang Xiuqin. Dr. Volker Stanzel, 

Botschafter der Bundesrepublik 

Deutschland in China, und Dr. Jiang Feng, 

Vize-Abteilungsleiter für Internationales 

im chinesischen Bildungsministerium, 

richteten Grußworte an die Gäste. 

Lesen Sie mehr auf S. 4 (auf Chinesisch). 

Tongji University: 100 

Years of “Together in a 

Boat” 

The centenary of Tongji University in 

May is a milestone in the development 

of Chinese-German relations. No other 

university in China or Germany engages 

more scientists, engineers and students in 

the academic exchange between the two 

countries. 

more on p. 10 

Vorwort des 

Herausgebers 

Liebe Leserinnen und Leser, 

die DAAD-Außenstelle Peking hat in 

den letzten Jahren eine ganze Reihe von 

Regional- und Fachtreffen für 

Deutschland-Alumni in China 

organisiert bzw. unterstützt, an denen 

zwar nicht alle unsere Leser, aber doch 

mehrere Tausend von Ihnen teilgenommen 

haben. Bei diesen Treffen 

wird immer auch darüber diskutiert, 

wie die Alumni-Arbeit in China weiter 

vorangebracht und wie interessierte 

Ehemalige selbst aktiv werden können. 

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Fortsetzung auf S. 3 

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Aus diesen Diskussionen wurde die Idee 

einer Online-Datenbank für 

Deutschland-Alumni in China 

entwickelt, die in Kürze freigeschaltet 

wird. Wir werden Sie mit separater Post 

über Ihre Zugangs- und Nutzungsmöglichkeiten 

unterrichten. Mit der 

Online-Alumnidatenbank verbinden wir 

die Hoffnung, dass das riesige Potential, 

das die mittlerweile an die 5.000 

registrierten Deutschland-Alumni 

darstellen, besser nutzbar gemacht 

werden kann. Vor allem die aktive 

gegenseitige Kontaktaufnahme und das 

individuelle Networking werden durch 

die Online-Datenbank deutlich 

vereinfacht werden. 

Auch für die zahlreichen aus 

Deutschland zurückkehrenden 

Chinesinnen und Chinesen dürfte die 

neue Online-Datenbank von hohem Interesse 

sein. Sie erhalten die 

Möglichkeit, sich mit anderen Deutschland-Alumni 

am selben Ort oder 

ähnlicher Fachgebiete in Verbindung zu 

DAAD China Info wird als kostenlose 

Mitteilungsbroschüre von der DAAD- 

Außenstelle Peking herausgegeben. 


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(ste) 

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setzen, was den beruflichen Neu- oder 

Wiedereinstieg in China erheblich 

erleichtert. Wir hoffen auf rege Nutzung! 

Zum Schluss noch eine persönliche 

Mitteilung: Dies ist mein letztes DAAD 

China Info. Nach fast sechseinhalb Jahren 

gebe ich die Leitung der DAAD- 

Außenstelle Peking zum 1. Juli 2007 ab. 

Den deutsch-chinesischen Hochschulbeziehungen 

bleibe ich auch in Zukunft 

erhalten. Ich werde für die Freie 

Universität Berlin ein Projektbüro an der 

DAAD-Außenstelle aufbauen. Mehr zu 

diesem und anderen Hochschulbüros an 

der DAAD-Außenstelle finden Sie auf S. 6. 

Mein Nachfolger als Leiter der 

DAAD-Außenstelle ist Herr Stefan Hase- 

Bergen, der derzeit noch der Akademischen 

Prüfstelle der Deutschen 

Botschaft vorsteht. Herr Hase-Bergen wird 

sich Ihnen in der nächsten Ausgabe des 

DAAD China Info vorstellen. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis 

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Aufbruchstimmung in der chinesisch-deutschen Bildungskooperation .................................... 4 

DAAD-German Universities ...................................................................................................... 6 

Alumni-Veranstaltung der Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung ..................................................................... 8 

Auftakt für „Deutschland und China - Gemeinsam in Bewegung“ ........................................... 9 

Tongji University: 100 Years of Together in a Boat .......................................................... 10 

, , 2007 - 

Study in Europe - Megashow in Beijing .................................................................................. 12 

Prof. Dr. Wan Gang Nominated New Science Minister .......................................................... 12 

Tan Ping: Teaching What Cannot Be Taught .......................................................................... 14 

Michael Kahn-Ackermann: A Tale of Three Decades in China .............................................. 15 

Research for Diploma Thesis in Geo-Ecology: Arsenic Contamination of Rice..................... 17 

Deutschland: sechs Monate „Gesicht und Stimme“ der EU ................................................... 20 

Personalia ................................................................................................................................. 21 

Being a Lecturer in China ........................................................................................................ 23 

DAAD China Info online 

The latest DAAD China Info is available for download on our website, and we provide 

German versions of all articles in Chinese. Moreover, lists of newly awarded DAAD and AvH 

scholarship holders are published online. 

Visit www.daad.org.cn. 

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+86-10 6590 6656-33 

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Universität zu Köln / Hochschulkonsortium China NRW 

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Technische Universität München 

(MAO Chunbo) 

+86-10 6590 6656-31 

mao@tum.de 

www.tum.de 

1868 

20,500 

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Centrum für Hochschulentwicklung (www.che.de/downloads/ 

CHE_ForschungsRanking_2006.pdf) 

Universität Konstanz 

(KANG Jie) 

+86-10 6590 6656-XX 

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Hochschule für Musik FRANZ LISZT Weimar 

(LIU Dao) 

+86-10 6590 6656-39 

Dao.Liu@hfm-weimar.de 

www.hfm-weimar.de 

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The Sino-German Master Programme in Marine Sciences 

Participants at the Centre of Tropical Marine 

Ecology (ZMT) at the University of Bremen. 

Photo: ZMT 

The Sino-German Master Programme in 

Marine Sciences was jointly developed by 

the universities and research institutions in 

Bremen and Kiel and by the Ocean University 

of China (OUC) in Qingdao; it was 

launched in the winter term 2006/07. This 

international programme offers graduate students 

admitted at one of the three 

universities, a two-term programme in certain 

disciplines of marine sciences at the partner 

university abroad. Successful participation 

in this English language study programme 

will be certified by the host 

university. Afterwards the students complete 

their studies at their home university, where 

they also submit their thesis. Master students 

will be awarded a Master of Science Double 

Degree in marine sciences from the Chinese 

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2000 

2004 

2002 

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Lab work at the Leibniz Institute for Marine 

Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR) at the University of 

Kiel. Photo: Lukman 

and the respective German university. 

The Sino-German Master Programme 

comprises the following marine-related disciplines 

at the three participating universities. 

Chinese master students can choose from 

five different subjects in Germany: Marine 

Biology, Aquatic Tropical Ecology, Marine 

Geosciences or Environmental Physics at the 

University of Bremen and Biological Oceanography 

at the University of Kiel. At the 

OUC, two main subjects are currently offered 

to graduate students admitted at one 

of the German universities: Marine Biology 

as well as Physical & Environmental 

Oceanography. Until 2009 the German Federal 

Ministry of Education and Research 

(BMBF) and the Chinese Ministry of Education 

(MoE) provide annual grants for 20 

students from the German universities and 

20 students from OUC. In September 2006, 

the first four German students enrolled at 

OUC. 20 Chinese students have been studying 

marine sciences at the two German 

universities. 

As an accompanying measure, annually 

organised summer schools are conducted in 

China or Germany. The primary objective 

is to bring together Chinese and German M. 

Sc. and Ph.D. candidates within short-term 

training courses and to promote contacts 

among the marine scientists and students as 

well as to enable the initiation of new research 

projects that are of mutual interest. 

This year’s summer school on “Processes in 

Coastal Zones,”which will be held in 

Germany, has been scheduled for July. 

(Petra Westhaus-Ekau) 

Contact 

Dr. Petra Westhaus-Ekau 

Centre for Tropical Marine Ecology (ZMT) 

E-mail: pwesthaus@zmt-bremen.de 

Dr. Alexandra Drossou 

Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences 

(IFM-GEOMAR) 

E-mail: adrossou@ifm-geomar.de 

International Office of OUC 

Web: www.ouc.edu.cn 

Alumni-Veranstaltung der Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung 

2007 

2008 

(Ulla Bekel) 


S&P-Stipendiaten treffen Deutschland-Alumni in Shenyang 

S&P 

Am 14. Mai 2007 fand zum ersten Mal ein 

Deutschland- Alumnitreffen in Shenyang in 

der Provinz Liaoning statt. Der DAAD und 

die Dongbei Universität luden gemeinsam 

zu der Veranstaltung ein. Frau Professor 

Wang Hong, in Darmstadt promovierte Ingenieurwissenschaftlerin 

an der Dongbei Universität 

, war die treibende Kraft bei der Organisation 

vor Ort. 

Das Alumnitreffen war eine echte 

deutsch-chinesische Begegnung: Die 

Shenyanger Alumni trafen mit einer Gruppe 

deutscher Stipendiaten aus dem Programm 

„Sprache & Praxis in China“ zusammen, die 

im Rahmen einer Studienreise in die 

Dongbei-Region gekommen waren. Dr. 

Stefanie Eschenlohr, die stellvertretenden 

Leiterin der DAAD-Außenstelle in Peking 

und Koordinatorin des „Sprache & Praxis“- 

Programms, begrüßte als DAAD-Vertreterin 

die Alumni und hielt einen Vortrag über 

Fördermöglichkeiten für Studenten und 

„ “ oder „Deutschland und 

China - Gemeinsam in Bewegung“- so 

heißt das Motto, unter dem in den 

kommenden drei Jahren in 

verschiedenen Städten Chinas 

mehrwöchige Deutschland-Veranstaltungen 

stattfinden werden. Initiator 

dieser Kampagne ist die Regierung der 

Bundesrepublik Deutschland, beteiligt 

sind der Asien-Pazifik-Ausschuss der 

deutschen Wirtschaft (APA), das 

Goethe-Institut, die Deutsche 

Außenhandelskammer, die Gesellschaft 

für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) 

und der DAAD. 

Die Veranstaltungsserie, bei der 

sich Deutschland als innovativer 

Standort mit all seinen Facetten - 

Wirtschaft, Kultur, Erziehung und 

Wissenschaft, Umwelt und Politik, 

Lebensart - vorstellen wird, steht unter 

der gemeinsamen Schirmherrschaft von 

Bundespräsident Dr. Horst Köhler und 

dem chinesischen Staatspräsidenten Hu 

Jintao. Eröffnet wird „Deutschland und 


Akademiker, der auf großes Interesse stieß. 

Das anschließende Abendessen wurde 

von einem deutsch-chinesischen Kulturprogramm 

umrahmt. Während die Studenten der 

Kunstfakultät traditionelle chinesische Instrumentalmusik 

aufführten, boten die deutschen 

Stipendiaten ein Potpourri aus chinesischen 

und deutschen Liedern -- und hatten 

viel Spaß dabei. (ste) 

Studentinnen der Kunstfakultät der Dongbei 

Universität beim Alumnitreffen in Shenyang. 

Foto: Maxie Rößler 

Auftakt für „Deutschland und China - 

Gemeinsam in Bewegung“ 

China“ Ende August 2007 in Peking und 

in Nanjing. Die Eröffnung in Peking fällt 

in den Rahmen der Pekinger 

Internationalen Buchmesse (30. August 

bis 4. September 2007), bei der 

Deutschland dieses Jahr offizielles 

Gastland ist. 

Auch der DAAD wird natürlich in 

Nanjing nicht fehlen. Geplant sind ein 

Hochschultag und ein Alumnitreffen. 

Zum „Deutschen Hochschultag“ am 30. 

Oktober werden deutsche Hochschulen 

und Bildungsinstitutionen erwartet, von 

welchen einige zuvor an der EHEF 

Beijing 2007 (European Higher Education 

Fair) bzw. der China Education 

Expo 2007 in Shanghai teilnehmen. Die 

Hochschulvertreter werden den 

deutschen Hochschul- und Forschungsstandort 

vorstellen und über Studienmöglichkeiten 

an den jeweiligen 

Hochschulen informieren. Die 

Veranstaltung, die in der neu eröffneten 

Provinzbibliothek in Nanjing 

durchgeführt wird, wendet sich vor 

Studierende segeln um die Welt 

2008 

Walross IV 

Walross IV 

Köpenick 2007 

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Ann-Kathrin Hermle 12 

12 

10 

(Ulrike Friedrich) 

TU intern 12/06 

allem an chinesische Studierende, 

Dozenten und Wissenschaftler aus 

Nanjinger Hochschulen und 

Forschungsinstitutionen. 

Voraussichtlich werden sich in Nanjing 

zudem Deutschland-Alumni aus den 

umliegenden Provinzen (Jiangsu, 

Zhejiang, Anhui) zum Erfahrungsaustausch 

treffen. Nähere Informationen 

zu beiden Veranstaltungen finden Sie 

demnächst auf unserer Homepage: 

www.daad.org.cn. 

(ml/mt) 

Die neue Bibliothek in Nanjing. Foto: DAAD 

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Tongji University: 100 Years of “Together in a Boat” 

The centenary of Tongji University in 

May is a milestone in the development 

of Chinese-German relations. No other 

university in China or Germany engages 

more scientists, engineers and students 

in the academic exchange between the 

two countries. Turning 100, Tongji appears 

younger than ever before, an academic 

place vibrant with energy, 

creativity, and the willingness to expand 

into the world. 

“Colleges and universities are an 

important base in the national strategy 

to boost science and education,” said 

China’s President Hu Jintao in a congratulation 

letter. “I wish Tongji University 

could inherit its good traditions and 

explore the future with innovation.” 

Indeed, innovation is one of the key 

words for the University, which is home 

to some 41,000 students and 4,200 faculty 

members, including more than a 

dozen academicians with the Chinese 

Academy of Science and the Chinese 

Academy of Engineering. 

Formerly mainly associated with 

its achievements in architecture and civil 

engineering, it has turned into a multifaceted 

university. After receiving its 

status as a university in 1927, Tongji was 

the first and only German language university 

in China. The various presidents 

navigated Tongji, which is often translated 

as “being in a boat together,” 

through deep waters. During World War 

II, the university was relocated several 

times to the hinterland. After its return 

to Shanghai, from 1946 onwards several 

faculties were transferred to other 

universities. 

Today, it is as much known as the 

main force in the EXPO 2010 planning 

as as a center for environmental 

protection, design and automotive 

engineering. The university is listed in 

the key governmental research 

programs. Sustainability in industry and 

Prof. Dr. Wan Gang, Science Minister of China, President of Tongji University (right) and Prof. Dr. 

Max Huber, Vice - President of DAAD sign a new cooperation agreement. In the background the German 

President Dr. Horst Köhler with his wife and German Ambassador Dr. Volker Stanzel . 

Photo: Anja Feldmann 

production is the key focus of outgoing 

president Prof. Dr. Wan Gang, who was 

nominated the country’s new science 

minister one month before the centennial 

celebration. Today, the university 

is the front-runner for example in developing 

fuel cell and hybrid cars in 

China with its Tongji University Automotive 

Institute which was established 

in 2002. 

One of the great achievements of 

Wan and his predecessor as Tongji president 

and now vice minister of education, 

Prof. Wu Qidi, was their determination 

in promoting public private 

partnerships. The Chinese German University 

College CDHK with its 28 chairs 

sponsored by German, Chinese and 

Austrian companies, is one of the best 

examples for this policy. During the 

festivities, the college added Haniel 

Group and Kuehne Fellowship foundation 

to the list of its sponsors with chairs 

in entrepreneurship and international logistics 

networks respectively. Wan Gang 

even serves on the advisory board of the 

German steel company ThyssenKrupp. 

Public Private Partnerships 

Tongji is not concentrating on foreign 

companies alone. Prof. Wan has always 

made clear that the university will seek 

cooperation with partners abroad and at 

home and will put its research in service 

of the many, not of the few. During 

the festivities, the Chinese car manufacturer 

Geely announced an investment 

of RMB 50 million into a new Joint Automobile 

Engineering Institute for cooperation 

in human resources training 

and development of key components. 

Together with the steel company 

Baosteel Group, Tongji will set up a research 

program to develop high-strength 

steel for lightweight clean-energy cars. 

The biggest investment comes from Fortune 

500 companies General Motors, 

EDS, Sun Microsystems, and Hewlett 

Packard. Together, they launched the 

largest collaborative engineering education 

Center in Asia Pacific and will provide 

software, hardware and training 

worth more than USDollar 400 million 

at Tongji’s new Campus in Anting 

(Jiading). The PACE center (Partners for 

the Advancement of Collaborative Engineering 

Education) will provide more 

than 700 seats of product lifecycle management 

and 50 workstations. One of the partners 

in PACE is UGS PLM Software, a 

division of Siemens Automation and 

Drives (A&D) and leading global provider 

of product lifecycle management 

(PLM) software and services. 

Even in an increasingly globalized 


academic world, the main characteristic 

of Tongji remains its strong ties with 

Germany. While promoting cooperation 

with several European partners, relations 

with German institutions, universities 

and companies have been strengthened 

over the years. The university supports 

the new Confucius Center in Hanover 

by sending a representative. The strong 

relations were most visibly marked by 

the visit of German president Horst 

Köhler during his China visit in the end 

of May. German President Horst Köhler 

brought a birthday present for Tongji 

university: For the next three years, four 

outstanding students of the Chinese 

German Hochschulkolleg will be 

granted scholarships, thus recognizing 

Tongji Chronology 

1907 

The physician Erich Paulun establishes 

the German medical school for Chinese 

in Shanghai. The medical school has 

its roots in the Tongji Hospital in 

Shanghai, which had been founded in 

1900. Apart from Paulun one of the 

most important supporters of both 

school and hospital is Germany's general 

consul in Shanghai, Wilhelm 

Knapp. 

1927 

Tongji is officially registered as a state 

university. 

1937-45 

The odyssee of Tongji begins. After 

university buildings were destroyed in 

Wusong, the university is several times 

relocated to places all over China between 

1937 and 1945. 

1938 

The last German Tongji professors return 

to Germany. 

1940-45 

During the war years, several faculties 

are founded, among them mathematics, 

physics, ship engineering and law. 

1946 

Tongji returns to Shanghai 

1949-56 

Tongji is placed under the supervision 

of the Shanghai commission for military 

control. In the following years it 

looses its status as a comprehensive 

the contributions to Sino-German scientific 

cooperation by Tongji university, 

and, in particular, by the CDHK. From 

its starting point, first as a medical 

school, later as a school for medicine 

and engineering, the institution trained 

specialists both in their fields and in the 

German language. (Anja Feldmann) 

Contact 

Anja Feldmann 

DAAD-Lektorin 

Chinese German University College 

for Postgraduate Studies at 

Tongji University 

E-mail: feldmann@mail.tongji.edu.cn 

Tel.:+86-21-6598 5141 

university, as more and more faculties 

are transferred to other universities. 

For example, the medical faculty is 

merged with its counterpart at Wuhan 

University. 

1978 

Tongji resumes its relations with Germany 

and reintroduces German language 

studies. President Li Guohao 

visits Germany in the following year. 

1980 

The Ruhr-University Bochum becomes 

the first partner of Tongji. 14 

other German universities follow. 

1993 

Chancellor Helmut Kohl visits Tongji 

and promises the foundation of the 

Chinese-German University College. 

1998 

The Chinese-German University College 

is inaugurated. 

2000 

After merging with the Railroad 

university, Tongji becomes Shanghai’s 

largest university 

2002 

Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder visits 

Tongji and receives the honorary 

doctor. 

2007 

Centenary of Tongji 

(Anja Feldmann based on material by Prof. Li 

Lezheng) 

100 Jahre Tongji 

Medizinische 

Fakultät in Wuhan 

Am 20. Mai 2007 fand in Wuhan die 

große 100-Jahr-Feier der Tongji 

Medizinischen Fakultät statt. Viele 

offizielle Vertreter, Alumni und Gäste 

aus dem In- und Ausland kamen nach 

Wuhan, um ihre Glückwünsche 

auszusprechen. 

Die Feierlichkeiten wurden von 

Professor Li Peigen, Präsident der 

Huazhong Universität für Wissenschaft 

und Technologie, und Professor Qiu 

Fazu, Ehrenpräsident der Tongji 

Medizinischen Fakultät, eröffnet. Herr 

Dr. Schröder, Staatssekretär im 

Bundesministerium für Gesundheit, 

Herr Lauk, Leiter der Wirtschaftsabteilung 

der Deutschen Botschaft, 

Zhang Xinsheng, Stellvertretender 

Bildungsminister und andere Gäste 

gratulierten der Tongji Medizinischen 

Fakultät herzlich zu ihrem runden 

Geburtstag. 

Im Anschluss begeisterten die 

Studenten der Huazhong Universität für 

Wissenschaft und Technologie mit 

einem abwechslungsreichen und bunten 

Programm mit Gesang, Tanz und 

Akrobatik die zahlreichen Gäste. Den 

Abschluss der Feierlichkeiten bildete ein 

Konzert des Ärzteorchesters aus 

Hamburg. (Judith Poppitz) 

Feierlichkeiten zum hundertjährigen Bestehen der 

Tongji Medizinischen Fakultät. 

Fotos: Judith Poppitz 

DAAD China Info 1/2007 11

12 

2007 - 

10 19-21 

Asia Link) 

10 20-21 

2007 

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Prof. Dr. Wan Gang, the outgoing president 

of Tongji University, was nominated science 

minister one month before the university’s 

centennial celebration, being the first cabinet 

minister from a non-Communist party 

since the late 1970s. 

Prof. Wan succeeded in making a career 

in both countries, China and Germany. 

His new post is an important signal not only 

to Tongji University, which is seeking recognition 

for its internationalization, but 

moreover for the many Chinese studying in 

, , 2007 - 

Study in Europe - Megashow in Beijing 

www. 

ehef-beijing.org.cn 

2007 - 

(European Higher Education 

Fairs, EHEF) 

2006-2008 

, 

(CampusFrance) 

(DAAD) 

(Nuffic) (British Council) 

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, 

, 

EHEF Project Office 

DAAD Office Beijing 

Tel.: +86-10-6590 6115 

Web: www.ehef-beijing.org.cn 

(Liu Xin) 

Prof. Dr. Wan Gang Nominated New Science Minister 

Dr. Christian Bode, Secretary General of DAAD, 

presenting a symbolic tree to Prof. Wan Gang, 

Science Minister of China, President of Tongji 

University on occasion of the centenary of Tongji 

University. Foto: Anja Feldmann 

Germany and other countries. The Financial 

Times regards the nomination as a significant 

message to overseas returnees who have 

struggled in official positions without the 

deep connections won through years of networking 

in government and party and who 

are often resented by colleagues without international 

experience. “Mr Wan’s overseas 

curriculum vitae would probably disqualify 

him from serving in a large ministry, but he 

has a superb technological pedigree to hold 

the science portfolio and further China’s efforts 

to build a home-grown, technologically 

independent car industry,” concludes the FT. 

Being a Tongji graduate in mechanical 

engineering, the now 54 year old finished 

his PHD at the TU Clausthal under the guidance 

of Prof. Peter Dietz, before he went to 

the automobile company Audi AG in 

Ingolstadt. Dietz remembers Wan’s hospitality 

as a member of the German as well as 

the growing Chinese academic community 

in Clausthal. At Audi Wan Gang was swiftly 

rising in the ranks as a technology and production 

manager and in his spare time started 

tutoring his own PHD students. 

Tongji keeps an eye on its alumni. Professor 

Wu Qidi, his predecessor as Tongji 

president and now vice minister of education 

responsible for professional training, 

started sounding him out on the prospects of 

developing Tongji into a center for automotive 

engineering. Then-president Li Guohao 

convinced Wan to join the Tongji faculty. 

When Wan Gang returned to China in 

2000, the Chinese German University College 

for Postgraduate Studies (Chinesisch- 

Deutsches Hochschulkolleg), founded by 

Tongji and DAAD in 1998, was his starting 

base for research in automotive engineering 

and innovative transportation. His proposition 

to the State Council to develop a new 

type of automobile received much acclaim. 

By the end of 2000, Wan was appointed as 

Chief Scientist for the 863 special research 

program of electric vehicles by the Ministry 

of Science and Technology (MOST). After 

a brief period as vice president, he has 

served as president of Tongji University 

since 2004 . 

(Anja Feldmann) 



14 

Teaching What Cannot Be Taught 

In 1989, Tan Ping, today Vice Director 

of the Central Academy of Fine 

Arts in Beijing, went to Germany in 

search of inspiration -- and he also got 

to know methods of lecturing entirely 

alien to him. 

Born in 1960, Tan Ping’s talent for 

art was discovered early. When he was 

13 years old, he joined the Cultural Centre 

( ) of his native town Chengde, 

where he worked for five years. “ It was 

always my wish to become an artist, and 

my parents supported me in every way 

they could.” Entering the Centre had 

double purpose: “While helping me to 

develop my artistic talent, it was also a 

perfect way to prevent being sent away 

to the countryside -- something that was 

bound to happen during the Cultural 

Revolution to youths who did not have 

a ‘revolutionary’ background. My advantage 

was that this period also was in 

great need of politically inspired art.” 

When universities in China reopened 

their gates in 1978, Tan Ping applied immediately 

and was then allowed to start 

his study of the arts at the Central Academy 

of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing. After 

his graduation in 1984, he stayed at 

the Print-making Department of CAFA 

as a lecturer. “Education in the early 80s 

underwent a drastic change. Until that 

“Artists and language teachers have two completely different 

kinds of brains.” 

Tan Ping, Vice President of the Central Academy of Fine Arts 

time, we were obliged to orientate our 

art towards Soviet models, but now we 

could dedicate ourselves to the study of 

modern European art history. Thus, I 

discovered the German Expressionists: 

Käthe Kollwitz, Paul Klee and so on. 

And it really shows in my works of that 

time; they’re all very dark, kind of 

depressing; you can’t really call them 

beautiful,” he laughs. 

“German art fascinated me more and 

more, and so I wanted to visit the country 

and broaden my knowledge there. In 

1988, I was chosen to study at the Ber- 

Tan Ping, Vice President of the Central Academy 

of Fine Arts in Beijing. Photo: Thilo Diefenbach 

lin University of the Arts (HdK), but 

before this I had to undergo a course of 

the German language at the Beijing Language 

Institute (Yuyan xueyuan) for half 

a year. But to be frank, I wasn’t quite fit 

to be a language student. It just won’t 

work out -- artists and language teachers 

have two completely different kinds 

of brains,” he grins. 

In 1989, Tan Ping went to Germany, 

after gaining a DAAD scholarship. “As 

everyone knows, these were tumultuous 

times. I left Beijing in late June and arrived 

in Berlin in October after short 

stays in Bonn and Bremen. When the 

Berlin wall came down, I chose to keep 

myself at distance 

-- you couldn’t be 

sure what course 

the events would 

take once the 

whole thing 

started.” 

But despite the overwhelming political 

change that took place in Europe, Tan 

Ping was able to continue his studies in 

Berlin under the guidance of his teacher, 

Professor Klaus Fußmann. At first it 

wasn’t easy for Tan to get used to the 

different teaching habits in Berlin: “In 

China, teachers usually explained us all 

the technical aspects of art in great 

detail. But in Germany, some professors 

held long lectures about art theory that 

no one would really understand, and 

others, following the principle declared 

by Joseph Beuys that ‘art cannot be 

taught,’ just invited us to dinner and had 

extensive chats with us -- about anything 

but art!” 

In 1993, he graduated from HdK as 

a Master of Arts, and one year later he 

had a major solo exhibition at the 

Christof Weber Gallery in Berlin. Since 

then, Tan Ping features in at least two 

exhibitions every year, mostly in mainland 

China. In 1994, he returned to the 

CAFA where he was told to build up the 

newly planned Department of Design. 

“This decision took me by surprise -design 

wasn’t exactly my major, you 

see...” After the successful establishment 

of the department, he became one 

of its lecturers. 

In 1996, he was invited to participate 

in the joint exhibition “Beijing- 

Berlin,” shown at the German Embassy 

Beijing, where he cooperated with his 

Chinese colleague Teng Ying and the 

German artists Andreas Amrhein and 

Rüdiger Schöll. “It was cooperation in 

the sense of the word. We didn’t just 

hang our works on the wall next to each 

others’, but we actually combined copperplates 

(which each of us had prepared 

beforehand) in the printing process. 

Thus, genuine works emerged.” Some 

of them can still be seen in Munich 

today. 

In 1999, Tan Ping was chosen to be 

the director of the Design Department, 

and four years later he became vice 

president of the CAFA. “Now I have so 

many obligations that I hardly find time 

for artistic work,” he admits. “But, of 

course, I enjoy teaching very much, and 

I guess many of my students get interested 

in German art because of my 

influence. Some of them even would 

like to go there, but most of them think 

the German language is just too hard to 

learn. But as I said -- we artists are just 

a very special kind of people.” 

(Dr. Thilo Diefenbach) 


A Tale of Three Decades in China 

Michael Kahn-Ackermann can look 

back on more than 3 decades of 

breathtaking changes in China. He 

was a student at Peking University at 

the end of the “ten chaotic years,” 

then founding father of the first Western 

cultural institute in China during 

the reform and opening up period in 

the 80s, and he later became head of 

the Goethe-Institut in Beijing at the 

beginning of the 21st century. 

From his office on the 17th floor of 

the Digital Tower, Michael Kahn- 

Ackermann looks out at the busy Sitong 

crossroad, a construction site of subway 

line no. 4 and the compound of the 

Friendship Hotel. On a clear day, he can 

see the Western hills behind the everrising 

skyline of new multi-story 

buildings. The view today could not be 

more different from when Kahn- 

Ackermann first came to China in 1975. 

Back then, Kahn-Ackermann studied the 

Chinese Language at the Beijing Language 

& Culture University with a grant 

from the DAAD, and later he enrolled 

in Modern Chinese History at Peking 

University. 

Thinking back to how Beijing 

looked at the time, the only thing Kahn- 

Ackermann deplores is the failure of city 

planning officials to preserve the heritage 

of ‘historical Beijing,’ a city which 

“I suddenly felt at home here. This is what the Chinese call 

yuanfen (destiny).” 

Michael Kahn-Ackermann, Director of the Goethe-Institut China 

is considered one of the most important 

cultural monuments in the world. The 

traffic-choked Chinese capital of today 

thus fills him with a sense of “visual 

pain.” 

After two years in Beijing, Kahn- 

Ackermann spent another year in Taiwan 

before he returned to Germany. 

There he wrote the well-acclaimed book 

‘China -- Drinnen vor der Tür’ about his 

experiences in China, and worked as a 

journalist before joining the Goethe- 

Institut in 1981. 

“As early as 1981 it was my dream 

to be the first director of a Goethe- 

Michael Kahn-Ackermann, Director of the Goethe- 

Institut China. Photo: private 

Institut in China,” he says. But before 

his dream came true, Kahn-Ackermann 

was seconded to Shanghai for three 

years where he held the position of 

spokesperson for the German-Chinese 

College at Tongji University. At that 

time he made a name for himself as a 

translator of modern Chinese with his 

award-winning translation of Zhang 

Jie’s ‘Heavy wings’ ( ). 

Negotiations for the founding of a 

Goethe-Institut in China dragged on for 

several years, and it was only in 1988 that 

Kahn-Ackermann finally returned to 

Beijing with the mandate to set up the first 

Western cultural institute in the capital. 

The first 

years were not 

easy. “Before 

1993, we were 

only allowed to 

teach the German 

language,” Kahn-Ackermann recalls. 

“Only in 1993, did we receive permission 

to organize cultural programmes. 

But as soon as they were set up, they 

would immediately be banned.” In the 

aftermath of June 4th, 1989, the 

institute’s language courses were interrupted 

for 2-3 months. “But it was very 

important for us to stay on at the time 

and I fought for that against some forces 

in Germany who advocated a 

withdrawal,” says Kahn-Ackermann. 

In 1994, Kahn-Ackermann left 

China to run the Goethe-Institut in 

Moscow. This was followed by a term 

in Rome from 1999 to 2006. He only 

came back to China once in 2003 for a 

visit to his wife’s family. Unfortunately, 

at that time the capital was paralyzed by 

the SARS epidemic and the visit turned 

into a bizarre experience of empty streets 

and isolation. 

When he was approached in 2006 

to take over the Goethe-Institut in China 

one more time, Kahn-Ackermann hesitated 

at first, and so did his Chinese wife. 

But a visit to Beijing in the spring of 

2006 changed their minds almost 

immediately: “There was such an unbelievable 

energy,” says Kahn- 

Ackermann, “And I suddenly felt at 

home here. This is what the Chinese call 

yuanfen (destiny).” 

The Goethe-Institut’s headquarters 

in Munich also pledged a handsome increase 

in the operating budget for China, 

which would enable Kahn-Ackermann 

to face up to the new challenges: “There 

will be completely new strategies for 

cultural cooperation between Germany 

and China, which will potentially cover 

all territories including Hong Kong and 

Taiwan. We plan to considerably extend 

our network and build up a presence in 

locations where there is currently no 

Goethe-Institut,” he explains. “Negotiations 

are underway with several secondtier 

cities like Xi’an, Chengdu, Nanjing 

and Qingdao to establish entities similar 

to the Chinese Confucius Institutes 

in Germany. Fortunately, there are 

hardly any political restrictions these 

days to the work of the Goethe-Institut 

in China, only economic ones.” 

At the moment, the director of the 

Goethe-Institut is overwhelmed with 

work, coordinating a series of cultural 

events to be held in China as part of the 

“Germany in China” program. The first 

of these events is scheduled to take place 

in October 2007 in Nanjing. 

If things go according to plan, 

Kahn-Ackermann has another four years 

to shape German-Chinese cultural 

exchange. Although he has no specific 

retirement plans, it seems unlikely that 

he would sit idle. And with Beijing being 

his newly rediscovered home, it is 

most likely that he will stay. 

(ml) 


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Studie über Deutsches Recht 

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germanlaw@126.com 

Prof. Dr. Yongping GE 

Prof. Dr. Jun SUN 

2007 

geyongping2005@163.com sunjunnet@126.com 

“Friends of CDHAW”: Further 

Link between CDHAW 

and German Companies 

15 German Institutions of Higher Education, among them 

14 Universites of Applied Sciences and 1 University, support 

the Chinese-German University of Applied Sciences 

(CDHAW) at Shanghai’s Tongji University. CDHAW has 

successfully introduced practical training for engineers based 

on the model of German Universities of Applied Sciences 

into the Chinese educational system. German professors and 

lecturers with a business background teach up to 30 % of the 

subject-related classes at CDHAW. 

On 23 March 2007, the consortium members met for the 

second time at University of Applied Sciences Esslingen. On 

this occasion, the consortium partners founded a joint association 

with companies such as Volkswagen, Siemens, Festo 

and Bosch fostering CDHAW’s relations with relevant 

companies. The association, “Friends of CDHAW,” will be 

supporting CDHAW in all matters concerning teaching, research 

as well as exchange programmes. ( mt) 

Source: Hochschule Esslingen 


Research for Diploma Thesis in 

Geo-Ecology: Arsenic Contamination of Rice 

Whenever I told people that my diploma 

thesis was about arsenic contamination 

of rice in China, they were very 

surprised by the fact that high arsenic 

levels can be found in Chinese rice. 

Arsenic in rice is a problem that poses a 

severe risk to human health, not only in 

China but also in other countries such 

as Bangladesh, Vietnam, or even the US. 

The use of contaminated groundwater 

for drinking and cooking is the 

main origin of arsenic poisoning. An 

additional source is the consumption of 

crops that were irrigated with 

wastewater. In China, another route for 

arsenic poisoning via domestic coal 

combustion is known. Usually people 

are not aware of the high arsenic 

concentrations in coal. They burn the 

coal for heating and drying of food and 

are thus exposed to arsenic. The oral 

intake of arsenic contaminated water or 

soil causes various health problems 

including hyperpigmentation, 

numbness, cardiovascular diseases and 

different types of cancer. Relating to the 

above-described arsenic problems, I 

wanted to focus in my diploma thesis 

on factors controlling arsenic 

mobilisation and transport with special 

attention on arsenic uptake by rice 

plants. 

My supervisor, Dr. Andreas 

Kappler from the Geomicrobiology 

Group at the Center for Applied 

Geosciences of the University of 

Tübingen in Germany, took the initiative 

and contacted an expert in this field, 

Prof. Zhu from the research Centre for 

Eco-environmental Sciences at the 

Farmer from Chenzhou, Hunan province, using wastewater for irrigation of crops. Water is often contaminated 

by various elements like As, Cd and Zn due to high mining activity in this area. 

Photo: Sarah Richter 

Chinese Academy of Sciences in 

Beijing. He was immediately interested 

to collaborate with us. In the following, 

a plan was worked out to exchange 

scientific expertise from both sides: a 

student from Prof. Zhu’s laboratory, 

Xueping Chen, stayed for two months 

in Tübingen. In return, I had the great 

opportunity to live in Beijing for six 

weeks, working in a Chinese laboratory 

and gaining an insight into Chinese 

culture. Of course, Chinese life is very 

different and so is work in a Chinese 

laboratory. First of all, there is the 

problem of communication, especially 

when one’s Chinese language skills are 

very close to zero. Sometimes this 

would cost me (and of course my 

Chinese partners as well) a lot of 

patience. Often, however, these 

situations ended with laughter when I 

tried one more time to make myself 

understood with hands and feet. 

Regarding communication in English, I 

made the experience that many 

colleagues in the Chinese laboratories 

had good written English skills, but their 

spoken English was poor. Mostly, they 

hadn’t had a lot of chances to practice, 

or unfortunately, were too shy to talk to 

me. Another thing was the laboratory 

equipment. Generally, the laboratory 

was well equipped, but sure, one will 

not find all instruments one is used from 

one’s home-lab. Sometimes this was 

very annoying but, on the other hand, it 

stimulated my creativity in finding 

alternatives. Therefore, it may have even 

improved my understanding of the 

processes. Recapitulating the facts, 

people were very friendly and helped me 

to get along well in a country that bears 

a lot of challenges for a European. It was 

definitively an experience I will never 

forget. (Sarah Richter) 


18 

DAAD 

DAAD-Alumna wird stellvertretende UNO-Generalsekretärin 

2007 1 8 

Asha-Rose Mtengeti-Migiro 

1956 

Songea 

Daressalam 

1988 DAAD 

Universität 

Konstanz 1992 

Universität Oslo 

Eine Podiumsdiskussion zum Thema 

„China - Innovationen für den 

Weltmarkt?“ war der Auftakt zum ersten 

Alumnitreffen des vom BMBF 

finanzierten DAAD-Programms 

„Sprache & Praxis in China, das vom 24.- 

26.11. 2006 in Peking stattfand. Der 

Staatssekretär des BMBF, Prof. Meyer- 

Krahmer, diskutierte mit Vertretern von 

Siemens und Bayer Technologies über die 

Wettbewerbsfähigkeit der chinesischen 

Industrie und die Konsequenzen für den 

Standort Deutschland. Die vom DAAD 

und der AHK Peking gemeinsam 

organisierte Veranstaltung lockte 

2000 8 

FES 

1997 

1 

2007 1 

50 2006 

Cay Etzold 

DAAD-Ref. 432 

: Etzold@daad.de 

CCM 

Jakaya Kikwete 

DAAD Lai Jiong 

„Für die Wirtschaft, mit der Wirtschaft!“ 

Das DAAD-Programm “Sprache & Praxis in China” feiert 10-jähriges Jubiläum 

10-jähriges Jubiläum des Programms Sprache 

& Praxis in China . Foto: DAAD 

insgesamt mehr als 100 Zuhörer an. Am 

zweiten Tag fand ein Seminar zum Thema 

„Erneuerbare Energien und Perspektiven 

der Energiepolitik in China“ statt, bei dem 

Experten der GTZ, der EU-Delegation in 

Peking, und Firmenvertreter - darunter 

auch S&P-Alumni - zum Thema 

referierten. 

„Sprache & Praxis in China“ wurde vor 

zehn Jahren ins Leben gerufen, um für 

die deutsche Wirtschaft China-Fachleute 

mit grüdlicher Kenntnis von Land und 

Sprache auszubilden. Dazu absolvieren 

Graduierte der Rechts-, Wirtschafts- 

Natur- und Ingenieurwissenschaften und 

der Architektur eine einjährige 

Chinesischausbildung, ergänzt um 

zahlreiche Firmenbesuche, sowie ein 

sechsmonatiges Praktikum. Der DAAD 

nahm dieses Jubiläum zum Anlass, die 

Alumni dieses Programms zu einem 

zweitägigen Treffen in Peking 

einzuladen. Die Einladung fand großen 

Zuspruch - mehr als 50 Ehemalige, von 

denen heute viele in leitenden Positionen 

in deutschen Firmen in China arbeiten, 

kamen nach Peking, um andere Alumni 

wieder zu sehen und über die 

Weiterentwicklung des Programms zu 

diskutieren. 

„10 Jahre Sprache & Praxis in China“ 

kann auf eine erfolgreiche Bilanz 

zurückblicken: Von den Ehemaligen 

arbeiten 80% in Firmen oder Institutionen 

mit Chinabezug, und davon mehr als die 

Hälfte in China. Ein Netzwerk mit 

großem Potential, das in Zukunft den 

Ehemaligen und den Stipendiaten des 

Programms besser zugänglich gemacht 

werden soll. Ein vierköpfiges 

Organisationsteam wurde mit der 

Gründung eines „S&P China Alumni- 

Clubs“ beauftragt. 

Weitere Informationen zum S&P- 

Programm finden sich auf der Homepage 

der DAAD-Außenstelle Peking unter 

http://www.daad.org.cn/4_2_1.htm. 

(ste) 

Kontakt 

Dr. Stefanie Eschenlohr 


E-mail: eschenlohr@daad.org.cn 

Tel.:+86-10-6590 6656 


Kulturprogramm umrahmt Stammtisch der Deutschland- 

Alumni in Wuhan 

Tiankong Frauenchor Wuhan leitet den Stammtisch ein. 

Zum dritten Mal fand am 12. April in Wuhan 

ein Stammtisch der Deutschland-Alumni 

statt. Zu diesem Abend, der unter dem Motto 

„Kommunikation in Harmonie“ stand, waren 

erstmals auch Vertreter der deutschen Firmen 

in Wuhan eingeladen. Diese sehr gelungene 

Veranstaltung wurde von Herrn Li Yunzhong 

organisiert und vom Wuhan Music Radio 

begleitet. Auch bei den beiden 

vorausgegangenen Stammtischen in Wuhan 

Immer mehr Bachelor- und Masterstudien 

Margret Wintermantel 

Wintermantel 

(HRK) 

gab es ein 

abwechslungsreiches 

Programm: 

Zu Neujahr wurde 

ein „Bierabend“ 

veranstaltet, dem 

ein Besuch der 

Brauereifachschule 

vor 

dem Frühlingsfest 

folgte. 

Den Auftakt 

des dritten Treffens 

bildete ein Konzert 

Foto: Dong Weiguo 

des Wuhaner 

T i a n k o n g 

Frauenchors, Preisträger des 18. Franz- 

Schubert-Chorwettbewerbs 2001, Wien und 

des Choir Olympic Bremen 2004, dirigiert 

von Tian Xiaobao. Herr Helmut Lüders von 

der Wirtschaftsabteilung der Deutschen 

Botschaft in Peking begrüßte im Anschluss 

alle Teilnehmer sehr herzlich und freute sich 

sehr über das große Interesse von 

chinesischer und deutscher Seite an diesem 

Treffen. Professor Qiu Fazu, Ehrenpräsident 

45% 

28% 


70% 

64% 

2005/2006 

HRK 

Lai Jiong 

der Tongji Medizinischen Fakultät, bedankte 

sich bei allen für das zahlreiche Erscheinen 

und begeisterte besonders die Deutschen mit 

seinen unterhaltsamen Begrüßungsworten. 

Beim folgenden Buffet und dem großzügig 

von der Brauereifachschule Hubei 

gespendeten Freibier bestand die Gelegenheit, 

sich besser kennen zu lernen. Das Motto 

des Abends, „Kommunikation in 

Harmonie“, wurde sehr erfolgreich 

verwirklicht, es wurde viel geredet und 

gelacht und neue Freundschaften wurden 

geschlossen. 

(Judith Poppitz) 

Kontakt 

Ansprechpartner für 

Wuhaner Deutschland-Alumni: 

Dong Weiguo / 

E-mail: wgdong@tjh.tjmu.edu.cn 

Tel.: +86-27-8366 2645 

Allianz der Ruhruniversitäten 

gestartet 

Universität Bochum 

Universität Dortmund 

Universität 

Duisburg-Essen 

Elmar Weiler 

Eberhard Becker 

Lothar Zechlin 

(Mareike Knoke / Lai Jiong) 

duz MAGAZIN 03/2007.

20 

Für den DAAD war 2006 ein Rekordjahr 

Internationalisierung der deutschen Hochschulen nimmt zu 

Das Jahr 2006 war für den DAAD sehr 

erfolgreich. Erstmals wurden mehr als 

55.000 Studierende, Wissenschaftler 

und Künstler gefördert, darunter fast 34. 

000 Ausländer. Das Budget konnte 

gegenüber 2005 um 15,5 Millionen auf 

263,3 Millionen Euro gesteigert werden. 

Hauptgeldgeber sind das Auswärtige 

Amt (AA), das Bundesministerium für 

Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) und 

das Bundesministerium für 

wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und 

Entwicklung (BMZ). Zunehmend 

werden aber auch Mittel von der EU, 

der Wirtschaft und ausländischen 

Regierungen eingeworben. DAAD- 

Präsident Professor Theodor Berchem 

stellte heute den Jahresbericht 2006 vor 

6 

Angela Merkel 

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2007 

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und zog ein Fazit seiner fast 20-jährigen 

Amtszeit. Ende 2007 wird er aus dem 

DAAD ausscheiden; sein Nachfolger 

wird im Juni gewählt. 

„Seit meinem Amtsantritt 1988 

haben sich der Gesamthaushalt und die 

Gefördertenzahlen mehr als verdoppelt. 

Diesen Weg müssen wir fortsetzen, denn 

in Zeiten der Globalisierung ist es 

wichtiger denn je, Hochschulen und 

Studierende auf den internationalen 

Markt vorzubereiten“, unterstrich 

Berchem. Zusammen mit dem BMBF 

wurde 2006 daher die Kampagne „go 

out -studieren weltweit“ gestartet. Sie 

zielt darauf ab, 50 Prozent der 

Studierenden in Deutschland zu einem 

Teilstudium oder Praktikum im Ausland 

zu bewegen. Zurzeit sind es etwa 30 

Prozent. Als gemeinsame Einrichtung 

der deutschen Hochschulen betreibt der 

DAAD außerdem weltweit Marketing 

für den Studien- und Forschungsstandort 

Deutschland. In den letzten zwei 

Jahrzehnten wuchs die Zahl 

ausländischer Studierender in 

Deutschland um 70 Prozent auf rund 

200.000. Quelle: DAAD 

Kontakt 

Francis Hugenroth 

Leiterin Presse- und 

Öffentlichkeitsarbeit des DAAD 

Tel.: +49-228-882-454 

E-mail: presse@daad.de 

Deutschland: sechs Monate „Gesicht und Stimme“ der EU 

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Happy Birthday Europe 

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a Chinese company too 

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www.delchn.ec.europa.eu 

Deng Jia 

Dr. Volker Stanzel 

David 

Mulligan Hua 

Wechsel im 

Generalkonsulat 

Shanghai 

Zum Jahreswechsel 

kehrte 

Dr. Wolfgang 

Röhr, der das 

Generalkonsulat 

in 

Shanghai von 

2002 bis 2006 

geleitet hatte, als 

Botschafter, 

Leiter des 

Arbeitsstabes 

Deutschland- 

China im 

Generalkonsul Dr. 

Albrecht von der Heyden. 

Foto: Generalkonsulat 

Shanghai 

Auswärtigen Amt nach Deutschland 

zurück. Die Geschäfte in Shanghai 

übernahm Dr. Albrecht von der Heyden. 

Der promovierte Jurist, dessen Laufbahn 

wiederholt einen starken Bezug zu 

Mittel- und Osteuropa sowie zu Asien 

aufwies, war bereits 1984 bis 1988 

erstmals in China - damals als Leiter des 

Kulturreferates an der Botschaft in 

Peking. Als stellvertretender 

Referatsleiter im Auswärtigen Amt war 

er danach mit Aufgaben des 

Wissenschafts- und Hochschulaustauschs 

betraut. Der letzte Posten 

führte von der Heyden als Gesandten für 

Wirtschaft und Entwicklung an die 

Ständige Vertretung bei den Vereinten 

Nationen in New York. 

Harnack-Medaille 

an Lu Yongxiang 


(mt) 

Der Stellvertretende Vorsitzende des 

Ständigen Ausschusses des 

Nationalen Volkskongresses der 

Volksrepublik China und Präsident 

der Chinesischen Akademie der 

Wissenschaften (CAS), Prof. Dr. Lu 

Yongxiang, wurde am 24. November 

2006 mit der Harnack-Medaille, der 

höchsten Auszeichnung der Max-

22 

Planck-Gesellschaft (MPG), geehrt. 

Mit der Verleihung durch den 

Präsidenten der MPG, Prof. Dr. Peter 

Gruss würdigte diese Lu für sein 

Wirken als oberster Repräsentant der 

Wissenschaft Chinas. Seit vielen Jahren 

verleiht Lu der Forschungsfreundschaft 

der beiden Institutionen immer wieder 

neue Impulse. Auf seine Anregung 

entstand unter anderem das gemeinsame 

Institute for Computational Biology in 

Shanghai. 

(mt) 

Deutscher Physiker 

Dekan einer naturwissenschaftlichen 

Fakultät in China 

Unter dem neuen Präsident der Nankai 

Universität in Tianjin, Prof. Rao Zihe 

wird sich viel ändern: Er tauscht 14 der 

22 Dekane der renommierten 

Hochschule aus. Als erster ausländischer 

Dekan einer naturwissenschaftlichen 

Fakultät in China wird Prof. Dr. Romano 

Rupp, Professor an der Universität Wien 

und in der Vergangenheit bereits 

mehrfach Gastprofessor an der 

chinesischen Hochschule, ab Juni die 

Teda School of Applied Physics leiten. 

Der Physiker beschäftigt sich 

hauptsächlich mit der optischen 

Untersuchung von Materialeigenschaften 

und mit holographischer 

Datenspeicherung sowie mit 

Neutronenoptik. 

(mt) 

Neue Leiterin im 

InWEnt-Büro in 

Beijing 

Seit 1. April 2007 leitet Frau Anja Chia 

Y.L. das InWEnt Koordinierungszentrum 

Beijing. Davor war die in der 

Anja Chia Y. L., Leiterin des InWEnt 

Koordinierungszentrums Beijing. Foto: privat 

Schweiz ausgebildete Juristin zehn Jahre 

lang als In-house Counsel und 

Rechtsanwältin in einer internationalen 

Wirtschaftskanzlei in Hong Kong und 

Shanghai tätig. Ihre bisherige Arbeit 

umfasste schwerpunktmäßig 

ausländische Direktinvestitionen in 

China, Unternehmensgründungen sowie 

Mergers & Acquisitions. Zuletzt 

befasste sie sich auch mit Fragen des 

Knowledge Management. Frau Chia 

spricht außer Englisch, Französisch und 

Deutsch auch Mandarin. 

(Anja Chia Y. L.) 

Ehrenprofessuren 

an deutsche 

Professoren 

Im September vergangenen Jahres 

wurde Prof. Dr. Ulrich Steinmüller, 

Professor am Institut für Sprache und 

Kommunikation an der Technischen 

Universität Berlin und seit 2003 Dekan 

der Fakultät für Fremdsprachen der 

Zhejiang Universität in Hangzhou, an 

der Tongji Universität der Titel eines 


Ehrenprofessors verliehen. Im Frühjahr 

2007 wurde darüber hinaus Prof. Dr. 

Thomas Heberer zum 

Honorarprofessor an der Nankai- 

Universität Tianjin ernannt. Der 

Professor vom Institut für 

Ostasienwissenschaften an der 

Universität Duisburg-Essen ist der 

Universität in Tianjin seit vielen Jahren 

durch Lehrtätigkeiten und als 

Beiratsmitglied des Instituts für 

Being a Lecturer in China 

“Would you like to work in China for a 

year or so?” It was a bleak German winter 

day when a Chinese friend asked me 

this question over a cup of green tea. 

Now, there is no way I can ever have 

imagined turning down the chance to be 

in the front line of cultural exchange. 

“Spread German,” under this motto 

the DAAD recruited lecturers some 

years ago. “Spreading German” means 

much more than just teaching the language 

but rather guiding students into 

the universe of its use in both German 

literature and linguistics. In cultural 

studies and actual events, discussions 

about history and politics, consultation 

and organization of academic exchange, 

there are many worlds to be explored in 

this universe! 

Europaforschung verbunden. 

Almut Körting with B.A. graduates in 2006, Photo: Almut Körting 

Together with interested students 

and local colleagues, these explorations 

are much more fascinating as they are 

being done in a bicultural context. Facts, 

procedures, and methods too easily 

taken for granted in Europe are constantly 

being questioned in Asia. In this 

respect, the lecturer also learns as he or 

she sees Germany through the eyes of 

the host country. I consider these moments 

the highlights of my work when 

a student - or a colleague - throws a new 

light on a detail of German culture and 

sociology by asking questions or making 

remarks from a Chinese point of 

view. Is it, for example, really more interesting 

whether or not male and female 

students should live together before 

marriage than to discuss the introduc- 

tion of study fees in Germany? For sure 

it is, and the students give very good 

arguments why. 

Being a lecturer in China for some 

time also means experiencing the rise 

of this big nation. We share the increasing 

amenities of modern comfort, and 

we struggle with the remains of the past. 

As student numbers explode, teaching 

methods and contents change, and facilities 

are upgraded with the latest 

technology. Many universities move to 

ultramodern newly built campuses. This 

development involves new challenges 

for both Chinese and German 

colleagues, which have to be overcome 

together. 

I came to Shanghai as a lecturer in 

the year 2000, planning to stay for a 

year. To be honest, I told myself that this 

adventure would pay even in the worst 

case scenario if I failed and left China 

after one semester because I would at 

least gain an experience far beyond my 

work. In fact, I have been in China ever 

since, with a break of only one year 

while applying to the DAAD. I don’t 

want to miss a single day, because my 

job in this country gives me some surprise 

every day. My present position as 

DAAD lecturer in Xi’an gives me the 

basis not only to spread German but also 

grow it a little and even enjoy some 

flowers as result of Chinese-German 

cooperation. 

(Almut E. Körting) 

Contact 

Almut E. Körting 

Xi’an International Studies University 

E-mail: almut@koerting.info 


(mt) 

Zhang Jie Präsident 

der Shanghai 

Jiaotong Universität 

Seit November vergangenen Jahres ist 

Prof. Zhang Jie, Mitglied der 

chinesischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 

Präsident der Shanghai 

Jiaotong Universität. Der Physiker hat 

von 1989 bis 1990 als Postdoktorand mit 

einem Stipendium der Alexander von 

Humboldt-Stiftung in Deutschland 

geforscht. 

(mt)

24 

Internetportal zum deutschchinesischen 

Kulturaustausch 

Das Goethe-Institut und die Robert Bosch Stiftung entwickeln 

derzeit ein Internetportal zum deutsch-chinesischen 

Kulturaustausch. Ziel des zweisprachigen Portals ist es, eine 

Informationsquelle zu Projekten, Akteuren und Tendenzen im 

deutsch-chinesischen Kulturaustausch zu sein, gleichzeitig aber 

auch den aktiven Dialog aller Interessenten zu unterstützen, neue 

Partnerschaften zu ermöglichen und innovativen Ideen einen Raum 

zu bieten. Das Internetportal befindet sich im Aufbau und wird im 

Juli 2007 online gehen. 

Informationen über aktuelle und in Vorbereitung befindliche 

Aktivitäten im deutsch-chinesischen Kulturaustausch können gerne 

an folgende Adressen gesandt werden: 

Deutsch-chinesisches Kulturnetz 

Goethe-Institut China 

Cyper Tower B/17 

2, Zhongguancun Nandajie 

100086 Beijing 

Deutsch-chinesisches Kulturnetz 

Goethe-Institut Hauptstadtbüro 

Neue Schönhauser Str. 20 

10178 Berlin 

Email der Redaktion (Berlin und Beijing): 

redaktionkulturnetz@yahoo.com 

2007 

100086 

A Friendship Award of a Special Kind 

I have come to love Chinese folk 

music of the 20th century. This was 

also a main reason for me to take up 

singing lessons with a Chinese music 

teacher at the end of 2005. I had a rare 

opportunity to enhance my performance 

abilities by joining the popular 

“2007 Arts fom Our Land Competition” 

on Beijing TV. In the semi-final 

I sang “At that distant place” by 

the Chinese folk song composer and 

singer Wang Luobin. It was followed 

by the Chinese art song “Tell me how 

to not long for her” in the final, a song 

which was composed in the United 

Kingdom back in 1926 by the two 

Chinese expatriates Liu Bannong and 

Zhao Yuanren. The show was aired 

during Chinese New Year from February 

20 until 24. I hope that my 

friends and colleagues will understand 

my performances as my gift to them. For 

me taking the third place in the final was 

a friendship award of a special kind. 

(Andreas Fulda, CANGO) 

Abridged from: NBO Cooperation Forum 50.1. 

Da Shan (l.) with Adreas Fulda (r.). 

Photo: Andreas Fulda 

Goethe-Institut Hauptstadtbüro 

Neue Schönhauser Str. 20 

10178 Berlin 

2 B 17 

( ) 

redaktionkulturnetz@yahoo.com 

DAAD 

Sachmittelspende 

an Li Jianxin 

DAAD 

2006 12 

BMZ 

3,580 

20,450 

DAAD 

(hgf) 


Sino-German School of Governance 

Sino-German School of Governance 

2005 

Central European 

University Göteborg University 

Keele University 

The Bachelor “International Business 

Administration,” which has been developed 

in co-operation between the 

Fachhochschule des Mittelstands (FHM) 

and the University of Suzhou, has received 

the seal of approval from the wellreputed 

Foundation for International 

Business Administration (FIBAA). This 

is the first Sino-German Bachelor in the 

field of business administration, management 

and economics. 

The aim of the programme is to train 

highly-qualified, German-speaking 

managers with international experience, 

to work in SME in China or Germany. 

For this purpose both universities 

founded a joint "German-Chinese Institute 

for SME (DCMI)" in 2005. The 

Chinese students learn the German language 

in China and then spend one year 

in Germany studying and completing 

internships. The experts from the 

FIBAA especially appreciated the exten- 


, 

www.sinogermanschool.com 

(Yi Song, SGSG) 

Yi Song 

Intercultural Officer, Sino-German 

School of Govemance 

+49-2302-926-554 

First Sino-German Bachelor “International Business 

Administration” Accredited by the FIBAA 

sive company network that the DCMI 

has built up so far. Furthermore the strict 

orientation towards the job market was 

graded very positively. 

Additional information on the 

programme is available under www. 

fhm-mittelstand.de or www.dcmisuzhou.com. 

About the FHM: 

The Fachhochschule des Mittelstands 

(FHM) is a state recognised, private University 

of Applied Sciences in Bielefeld. 

It is the first German university with a 

special focus on small and mediumsized 

enterprises (SME). It provides accredited 

Bachelor and Master 

programmes on a high academic level, 

but also with thorough practical training. 

Besides FHM has built up an excellent 

reputation in executive education and research 

for small and medium-sized 

enterprises. (Vanessa K. Vieselmeier , FHM) 

Contact 

Vanessa K. Vieselmeier 

Tel.: + 49-521-9 6655-222 

E-mail: vieselmeier@fhm-mittelstand.de 

Prof. Gerhard Klippstein (l.), FHM President, and 

Markus Rempe (r.), FHM Senior Administrator, 

who initiated the Sino-German Bachelor 

Programme proudly present the FIBAA certificate. 

Photo: FHM

26 

Environment Research Center 

Established at Tsinghua University 

In February 2007, Andreas 

Oberheitmann, Ph.D., RWI Essen 

(Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für 

Wirtschaftsforschung) expert on Chinese 

energy and environment policies, 

started working as a guest professor at 

the Department of Environmental Science 

and Engineering of Tsinghua University 

in Beijing for two years. 

Oberheitmann completed his Ph.D. 

studies at the School of Public Policy 

and Management of Tsinghua University 

in 2006. 

Together with a Chinese colleague, 

he directs the newly established Research 

Center for International Environmental 

Policy. The project is supported 

by the Center for International Migration 

and Development (CIM) in 

Germany, which receives extensive 


funding from the Gesellschaft für 

technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ - 

Technical Cooperation Agency). 

The center focuses on applied and 

basic research into international environment 

policies, in particular in regard 

to climate protection, aiming at initiating 

atmosphere conservation projects on 

the basis of the findings derived. The 

so-called Clean Development Mechanism 

in the Kyoto Protocol offers German 

industry an opportunity to conduct 

these projects together with Chinese 

partners and to have the reductions in 

greenhouse gases credited to one’s own 

emission reduction obligations as per the 

Kyoto protocol. At present China is second 

only to the USA in its emissions of 

greenhouse gases. 

(Sabine Weiler, RWI Essen) 

Contact 

Prof. Andreas Oberheitmann, Ph.D. 

Tel.: +86-10-6277-2045 

E-mail: oberheitmann@tsinghua. 

edu.cn 

Sabine Weiler 

E-mail: weiler@rwi-essen.de 

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Prof. Andreas Oberheitmann (left) in his Research 

Center with a visitor from RWI maving made a 

presentation at the Center (Dr. Roland Döhrn, 2nd 

left), his Chinese Co-Director (Dr. Wang Can, 

middle) and his research assistants (back). 

Photo: Andreas Oberheitmann 

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