July 5, 2023
By: James Miller
Last month I led a Duke Kunshan University Humanities Research Center delegation to three cross-cultural dialogues in Italy. The first, at the Pari Center, brought academics from China, Europe and the USA together for a five days of intensive dialogue...
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December 26, 2014
By: James Miller
The monumental task that China faces in the 21st century is to create a way of development that does not destroy the ecological foundations for the life and livelihood of its 1.4 billion citizens. This requires a creative leap beyond...
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November 14, 2014
By: James Miller
[caption id="attachment_726" align="alignright" width="300"] From an article on China's cancer villages at RT.com[/caption] China doesn't have an "environmental“ problem. The language of "environment" continues the false notion that nature constitutes an objective reality extrinsic to human subjectivity, accessible through science,...
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November 1, 2014
By: James Miller
The monumental task that China faces in the 21st century is to create a way of development that does not destroy the ecological foundations for the life and livelihood of its 1.4 billion citizens. This requires a creative leap beyond...
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July 9, 2013
By: James Miller
At the end of June I had the privilege of speaking at the Chautauqua Institution in upstate New York. The topic for the week was the film Journey of the Universe, by Brian Swimme and Mary Evelyn Tucker. If you...
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March 1, 2012
By: James Miller
For the past six months I've been working with Dan Smyer Yu from the Max Planck Institute for Religious and Ethnic Diversity on a conference which is finally taking place next week at Minzu University in Beijing. The title of...
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December 2, 2011
By: James Miller
Should environmentalists support conservation projects that also serve to bolster right wing nationalist agendas? This was one of the questions that was discussed last month at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion, in San Francisco. I spoke on...
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November 19, 2010
By: James Miller
[caption id="attachment_400" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Delegates at the Sino-US Forum on Ecological Civilization and Sustainable Development"][/caption]I was in Beijing and Tianjin recently for a week of conferences related to "ecological civilization" (shengtai wenming 生态文明) an important new buzzword, the precise meaning...
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June 8, 2010
By: James Miller
I was in LA last weekend to attend the Sixth Annual Conference on Daoist Studies which was organized by my former teacher, Livia Kohn, and LMU Professor Robin Wang. The conference drew the usual mix of academics and practitioners (which...
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November 5, 2009
By: James Miller
[caption id="attachment_309" align="alignright" width="300" caption="James Miller attending the Laozi Conference in the Great Hall of the People"][/caption] I'm at the First Summit on Laozi and Daoist Culture, which is taking place this week in Beijing. The Summit is the work...
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