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December 30, 2008

china’s confucian revival

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 14, 2008

closing the religion deficit

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 1, 2008

the end of environmentalism?

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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daoism and climate change action

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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