sustainable china

avatar vs. confucius

james — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:56:25 +0000

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 fictional film plot of developers raping the land and forcibly evicting the people and real [...]

china’s green religion

james — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:24:29 +0000

I’m at the First Summit on Laozi and Daoist Culture, which is taking place this week in Beijing. The Summit is the work of Prof. Hu Fuchen, one of the leading scholars of Daoism, and a professor at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. This morning, we had the opening ceremony, which was held in [...]

weekly news digest 2009-11-01

james — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:00:00 +0000

Interview with an American training to be a Daoist priest: Center for Spirituality and Sustainability at S. Illinois U http://bit.ly/1JOMfQ #

weekly news digest 2009-10-25

james — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:00:00 +0000

An exhibition introducing the Taoist traditions of ethnic people in northern Vietnam opened in Hanoi on October 21. http://bit.ly/3LopcJ #

weekly news digest 2009-10-18

james — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:00:00 +0000

Blogging the conference on eco-aesthetics at Shu Yen University: China’s contribution to sustainable development http://bit.ly/1xCHPj #

china’s greatest contribution to sustainable development

james — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:39:16 +0000

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 one of China’s leading scholars of eco-aesthetics. In his overview of the field of eco-aesthetics [...]

weekly news digest 2009-10-11

james — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:00:00 +0000

Eight Ideas Behind China's Success, including Confucian values http://bit.ly/15BW5l # My think tank article "China's Quest for an Ecologically Sustainable Culture" at Atlantic-Communtiy.org http://bit.ly/XM7CB #

weekly news digest 2009-10-04

james — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:00:00 +0000

Confucius's birthday leads Google to doodle http://bit.ly/QD0m6 # Conference on Daoism Today: Science, Health, Ecology, Los Angeles, June 2-6, 2010 http://bit.ly/u327f # Change in offing in China, prof says. – - An interview with me in the The Whig Standard — http://bit.ly/1PKNCq # Conference on eco-aesthetics in Hong Kong with a keynote from me on Ecology, Aesthetics [...]

china’s transition to sustainability

james — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:10:17 +0000

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, according to a Queen’s University professor. “Economic expansion has been successful in terms of lifting people out of poverty [...]

Weekly Updates for 2009-09-27

james — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:00:00 +0000

UN climate chief says China poised to lead the world on climate change. http://bit.ly/WmNEL # China in the green spotlight — a useful summary of China's environmental situation http://bit.ly/QUMvr # China Daily praises Confucius, the sage of sages http://bit.ly/C1SBz # Official calls for the promotion of Confucianism to aid "development and prosperity of country's socialist culture" [...]