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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January 29, 2009
By: James Miller
[caption id="attachment_219" align="alignright" width="300" caption="A collapsed building in Dujiangyan, close to the epicentre of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake."][/caption] China's massive system of hydroelectric dams and water distribution has come under fire once again. Right after the devastating Sichuan earthquake of...
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