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German teacher hopes to stay in China
By Wang Xiang |
May 31, 2010, Monday
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A GERMAN volunteer who has spent 10 years teaching in a remote south China village said he would stay in China after his blog's abrupt closure sparked rumors he would be deported.
Eckart Loewe, 42, known as Lu Anke in China, was warned by authorities in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region that he was not qualified to be a volunteer or teacher, New Express Daily reported today.
Loewe volunteered to teach in Banlie Villiage a decade ago. He was acclaimed by China Central Television in January as a role model, but his blog exposed stories of local poverty, creating pressure from the local government, the report said.
CCTV reporter Cai Jing said on her blog that Loewe told her he would stay where his students need him but he would have to refuse any interview requests. Loewe's visa will expire at the end of October. Cai said he is trying to find a way to stay indefinitely as a legal teacher in Bailie.
"I'll try to come back again anyway, because my life is not complete without my students," he said.
Loewe closed his blog (luanke.jiaoyu.org) on May 20. In the last entry, he said: "As a foreigner, I shouldn't have cared about these children left at home by their migrant worker parents. But I did, and that made some Chinese embarrassed."
He also added that "at the request of the relevant departments, I make the following statement: I have no formal status as a volunteer, and I am not credentialed to teach in China."
The blog Loewe started in 2001 was a detailed record of his experience as a teacher in the poverty-stricken Banjie village and contains more than a dozen books he translated from German to Chinese.
Eckart Loewe, 42, known as Lu Anke in China, was warned by authorities in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region that he was not qualified to be a volunteer or teacher, New Express Daily reported today.
Loewe volunteered to teach in Banlie Villiage a decade ago. He was acclaimed by China Central Television in January as a role model, but his blog exposed stories of local poverty, creating pressure from the local government, the report said.
CCTV reporter Cai Jing said on her blog that Loewe told her he would stay where his students need him but he would have to refuse any interview requests. Loewe's visa will expire at the end of October. Cai said he is trying to find a way to stay indefinitely as a legal teacher in Bailie.
"I'll try to come back again anyway, because my life is not complete without my students," he said.
Loewe closed his blog (luanke.jiaoyu.org) on May 20. In the last entry, he said: "As a foreigner, I shouldn't have cared about these children left at home by their migrant worker parents. But I did, and that made some Chinese embarrassed."
He also added that "at the request of the relevant departments, I make the following statement: I have no formal status as a volunteer, and I am not credentialed to teach in China."
The blog Loewe started in 2001 was a detailed record of his experience as a teacher in the poverty-stricken Banjie village and contains more than a dozen books he translated from German to Chinese.
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