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January 6, 2011

green china rising

By: James Miller

http://www.youtube.com/v/YlOA_eO8IsQ&rel=0&fs=1 As the trailer for this new documentary from Mandarin Films makes clear, the global environmental crisis will be solved in China, not in America, for the simple reason that China has no other option. As I noted recently in...
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November 19, 2010

ecological civilization

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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July 19, 2010

chinese religions and economic sustainability

By: James Miller

[caption id="attachment_370" align="alignright" width="150" caption="A solar-powered light on the road to Maoshan, Jiangsu, China."][/caption] In Sunday's New York Times, Wayne Arnold published a column on the perennial topic "rethinking the measure of growth." The story concerns attempts by Asian economists...
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June 25, 2010

daoism’s quest for relevance

By: James Miller

[caption id="attachment_534" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Photograph taken during the liturgy at the Templo da Transparência Sublime, Rio de Janeiro, December 2009."][/caption] In a Wall Street Journal blog today, Christopher Carothers asks, "Is Daoism is losing its way?" He writes: Today, Buddhism...
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February 2, 2010

avatar vs. confucius

By: James Miller

What do you do, as a Chinese film board, when the Hollywood science fiction film Avatar smashes Chinese box office records in its first three weeks in theaters, when online chat sites are buzzing about the uncanny parallels between the...
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