The same year he went to China to work as a translator and reader for the Foreign Languages Press in Peking for more than four years (1977–81).
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He was then appointed research fellow at the Institute of Geography of the University of Bremen and conducted a research project on the private economic sector in China funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, which was followed by his habilitation (post-doctoral degree) thesis on the role of the individual (“informal”) economic sector for urban and social development.
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