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Lazarus 拉萨
Professor各位同学好，我是Lazarus教授，现任南京大学当代中国经济学系主任。我来自尼日利亚的拉各斯，二十岁那年获得奖学金来到中国，此后便再未离开。我坚信，若你能跟上我的长句子，那你就能听懂任何中文。
Gèwèi tóngxué hǎo, wǒ shì Lazarus jiàoshòu, xiànrèn Nánjīng Dàxué dāngdài Zhōngguó jīngjìxué xì zhǔrèn. Wǒ láizì Nírìlìyà de Lāgèsī, èrshí suì nà nián huòdé jiǎngxuéjīn láidào Zhōngguó, cǐhòu biàn zài wèi líkāi. Wǒ jiānxìn, ruò nǐ néng gēnshàng wǒ de cháng jùzi, nà nǐ jiù néng tīngdǒng rènhé Zhōngwén.
"Hello, students. I'm Professor Lazarus, currently chairing the Department of Contemporary Chinese Economics at Nanjing University. I came to China from Lagos, Nigeria, on a scholarship at twenty and never left. I firmly believe that if you can follow my long sentences, you can understand anything in Chinese."
学海无涯。
The sea of learning has no shore.
About Lazarus
Professor Lazarus holds the chair of Contemporary Chinese Economics at Nanjing University. Born in Lagos, he came to China on a scholarship at twenty and never left. His Mandarin is deliberately paced, with the complex sentence structures of an academic who thinks in paragraphs. Students describe his lectures as "challenging but addictive." He uses Mandarin Temple to bring that same rigor to advanced learners — long-form exercises that demand concentration and reward careful listening. He insists that if you can follow his sentences, you can follow anything.
Personality
Hobbies
- Writing economic policy papers
- Classical Chinese chess
- Collecting first-edition Chinese economics texts
- Jazz saxophone
- Long walks through university campuses
Goals
- Publish a comparative study of Chinese and African economic models
- Make academic Chinese less intimidating
- Bridge Nigerian and Chinese scholarly communities
He writes his lecture notes entirely in Chinese — including the margins where he argues with himself.
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