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December 15, 2011

mazu: marine ecoregion goddess

By: James Miller

[caption id="attachment_492" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="The Guandu Temple, Taipei"][/caption] According to tradition, Mazu (Matsu) was a girl who lived in the late tenth century who was renowned for her assistance to seafarers. She was posthumously deified and attracted a wide cult...
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February 14, 2011

daoism and technological innovation

By: James Miller

[caption id="attachment_432" align="alignnone" width="553" caption="The electronic prayer hall at Wong Tai Sin (photo: Sik Sik Yuen)"][/caption] As China overtakes Japan to be recognized as the world's second largest economy, it is inevitable that Chinese religions will undergo change and transformation....
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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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