July 19, 2010
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
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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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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February 2, 2010
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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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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October 14, 2009
By: James Miller
This 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...
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October 1, 2009
By: James Miller
The 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,...
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September 25, 2009
By: James Miller
Over 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...
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August 25, 2009
By: James Miller
Much intellectual discourse about Chinese philosophical and religious views of nature focuses on ideals such as harmony between humans and the natural world, or "forming one body with heaven and earth" (tian ren he yi). But when it comes to...
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June 26, 2009
By: James Miller
In today's Christian Science Monitor, I published an op-ed piece that ties together some of the themes that I've been blogging about lately: Is democracy the best vehicle to ensure sustainable development? What is the Confucian view of the human...
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