December 30, 2008
By: James Miller
By James Miller In a recent article entitled Two Big China Stories You Missed This Year Jeffrey Wasserstrom, a respected professor of Chinese history at UC Irvine, highlighted the rehabilitation of Confucius as one of the most significant trends in contemporary China....
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December 22, 2008
By: James Miller
By James Miller Christmas, as we all know, is the grand festival of the religion of consumerism. We pay homage to our saviour Santa Claus in the vast cathedral of the shopping mall. There we make a sizeable donation to...
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December 14, 2008
By: James Miller
By James Miller An editorial in Friday's Dallas Morning News argued that Hillary Clinton, the incoming U.S. Secretary of State, should move to "close our diplomats' religion deficit." The argument was that in order to succeed in international relations, it's...
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December 8, 2008
By: James Miller
By Mary Evelyn Tucker [caption id="attachment_102" align="alignright" width="209" caption="Pan Yue"] [/caption] In a world where eco-systems are unraveling and where water, soil, and species are rapidly diminishing, there are few places on Earth where environmental problems are of greater concern...
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December 5, 2008
By: James Miller
[caption id="attachment_141" align="alignleft" width="350" caption=""carry out family planning""][/caption] By James Miller I've been following Andrew Revkin's dot Earth blog at the New York Times. The tag-line of the blog is "Nine Billion People. One Planet" and is premised on the demographic...
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December 4, 2008
By: James Miller
By James Miller The image of China in the Western media is often that of a monolithic totalitarian state, run by a cabal of shady figures in Beijing whose decisions affect the lives of downtrodden millions. When I bring visitors to...
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December 1, 2008
By: James Miller
By James Miller In October I was invited to participate in a symposium on International Perspectives on Nature and Culture organized by the Institute for the Humanities at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. I was on a panel responding to...
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By: James Miller
By James Miller I was very interested to read this article, published on the UN website, on Daoism as the “Way” for climate change action in China. The article was written by Olav Kyorven, an assistant secretary general of the UN...
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August 16, 2008
By: James Miller
In 2007 a large scale 12-day Daoist ritual took place in Hong Kong to mark the tenth anniversary of the return of Hong Kong to China. This ten minute video captures some of the ritual, with commentary [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaoFe3u5E7c?rel=0&w=480&h=360]
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August 9, 2008
By: James Miller
[caption id="attachment_27" align="alignright" width="199"] The Way of HIghest Clarity by James Miller[/caption] James Miller. The Way of Highest Clarity: Nature, Vision and Revelation in Medieval China, Magdalena, NM: Three PInes Press, 2008. US$34.95. ISBN 978-1-931483-09-4 The Way of Highest Clarity was...
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