East Asia Institute (Ludwigshafen)
The East Asia Institute of the University of Ludwigshafen is a facility of the University of Ludwigshafen am Rhein with a focus on Japan's economy or economy of China.
The Institute was established under the name of marketing East Asia in 1988 by the sinologist Siegfried Englert and expanded in 1992 by the U.S. Japan historian Peter Wetzler to the focus on Japan.
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Study
The course combines what was previously only accessible by a second degree, namely the combination of Business Administration and Chinese or Japanese language. The approximately 180 students at the end of their studies no Japanese studies or sinologist but economists with an additional qualification for the two East Asian countries. That is why even a stay abroad of at least two semesters in the People's Republic of China or Japan prescribed. Because of small learning groups, an intensive contact between teachers and students is also given.
" While normally students and faculty who are struggling at universities with overcrowded classrooms, broken copiers, poorly equipped libraries or obsolete computers, prevail only 500 meters distance from Mannheim Uni away, on the Rhine River opposite, conditions such as at a private American college. The East Asia Institute in Ludwigshafen, with 18 faculty and approximately 250 students ( including one-third from abroad) offers a library which is among the best simply because of the wide range of current Japanese and Chinese newspapers. "
Partnerships
The East Asia Institute maintains partnerships with the following universities in the People's Republic of China and Japan:
Partner universities in the People's Republic of China
Partner universities in Japan
The contracts allow the students to study without fees ( with the exception of Nagoya ). The Institute also has internship programs with companies such as Merck and Daimler Chrysler.
Student Activities
The students themselves are also involved through various activities in mind to help shape the study. For this reason, an active student organization e named Steam V. (Students of East Asia Marketing ) has established undertakes the variety of activities in and around the course.
Activities
Faculty of the East Asia Institute are active not only in research and teaching, but also in advising companies, government agencies and institutions as well as individuals. Staff of the Institute have also been instrumental in building the Chinese Teahouse in Mannheim Luis Park. In addition, the East Asia Institute is leading the partnerships of Rhineland- Palatinate to the Chinese province of Fujian and Japanese Iwate Prefecture.
Chronicle
Logo
Logo of the East Asia Institute are five stylized peonies. The tree peonies (Chinese:牡丹Mudan; japanese: Botan ) are a symbol that both in China and in Japan, has the two focal points of the course, a positive reputation. The first seeds of tree peonies brought monks to Japan, whereas the peony in China represents the flower par excellence. Poems and paintings glorify this flower that the saga defied even by the will of Empress Wu Zetian and refused as a single flower to bloom in winter. As punishment, she was removed from the Imperial Gardens.
The peony (or peony ) is one of the oldest cultivated plants of mankind and has experienced a mystical veneration in East Asia, which is comparable to anything in Europe. In ancient Europe, they were revered as a medicinal high. Paean, the physician of the Greek gods - of which they have their German names - got healed with Päonienwurzeln wounded by Hercules Hades.
Helfferich Collection
The East Asia Institute hosts the Asian Art Collection of Southeast Asia Neustadter businessman Emil Helfferich, who worked from 1899 to 1927 in the Dutch East Indies ( now Indonesia ) in the trade. 1927 to 1972 he worked in Hamburg as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Hapag, as Chairman of the East Asian Association ( OAV ) as well as the Council of State.
Helfferich moved 92 years into his Palatine home and spent his last years in Neustadt on the Wine Route. Since he had no children, he bequeathed his estate to his hometown which missed its collection in 1997 as a permanent loan to the East Asia Institute.
Nine Dragons
In the library of the East Asia Institute, a gilded carving hangs with a diameter of 120 centimeters, which is able to tell a lot about the Chinese culture. Shown are nine dragons. " Nine Dragons " is called in Chinese " jiulong " (abbreviation :九龙, " gáuhlùhng " in Cantonese, traditional characters :九龙). Kowloon is the large peninsula, north of Hong Kong Island.