I’m at the First Summit on Laozi and Daoist Culture, which is taking place this week in Beijing. The Summit is the work of Prof. Hu Fuchen, one of the leading scholars of Daoism, and a professor at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. This morning, we had the opening ceremony, which was held in…
Read More china’s green religionInterview with an American training to be a Daoist priest: Center for Spirituality and Sustainability at S. Illinois U http://bit.ly/1JOMfQ #
Read More weekly news digest 2009-11-01An exhibition introducing the Taoist traditions of ethnic people in northern Vietnam opened in Hanoi on October 21. http://bit.ly/3LopcJ #
Read More weekly news digest 2009-10-25Blogging the conference on eco-aesthetics at Shu Yen University: China’s contribution to sustainable development http://bit.ly/1xCHPj #
Read More weekly news digest 2009-10-18This week I’m at a conference on eco-aesthetics at Shu Yen University in Hong Kong. Today we heard the opening speech from Prof. ZENG Fangren, the former president of Shandong University. He runs a research institute on aesthetics, and is one of China’s leading scholars of eco-aesthetics. In his overview of the field of eco-aesthetics…
Read More china’s greatest contribution to sustainable developmentEight Ideas Behind China's Success, including Confucian values http://bit.ly/15BW5l # My think tank article "China's Quest for an Ecologically Sustainable Culture" at Atlantic-Communtiy.org http://bit.ly/XM7CB #
Read More weekly news digest 2009-10-11Confucius's birthday leads Google to doodle http://bit.ly/QD0m6 # Conference on Daoism Today: Science, Health, Ecology, Los Angeles, June 2-6, 2010 http://bit.ly/u327f # Change in offing in China, prof says. – – An interview with me in the The Whig Standard — http://bit.ly/1PKNCq # Conference on eco-aesthetics in Hong Kong with a keynote from me on…
Read More weekly news digest 2009-10-04The following is reproduced from today’s Kingston Whig-Standard. Change in offing in China, prof says Posted By PAUL SCHLIESMANN Behind today’s show of military might celebrating its 60th anniversary, the People’s Republic of China is undergoing significant environmental policy change, according to a Queen’s University professor. “Economic expansion has been successful in terms of…
Read More china’s transition to sustainabilityUN climate chief says China poised to lead the world on climate change. http://bit.ly/WmNEL # China in the green spotlight — a useful summary of China's environmental situation http://bit.ly/QUMvr # China Daily praises Confucius, the sage of sages http://bit.ly/C1SBz # Official calls for the promotion of Confucianism to aid "development and prosperity of country's socialist…
Read More Weekly Updates for 2009-09-27Over the past sixty years China has achieved something close to a miracle when compared with other developing nations. It by and large manages to feed, educate, house and employ its own people. It is not involved in futile and costly military conflicts. It is a creditor nation, not a debtor. Its social and political…
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