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		<title>chinese religions and economic sustainability</title>
		<link>http://www.sustainablechina.info/2010/07/19/chinese-religions-and-economic-sustainability/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>james</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Sunday&#8217;s New York Times, Wayne Arnold published a column on the perennial topic &#8220;rethinking the measure of growth.&#8221; The story concerns attempts by Asian economists to come up with alternatives to GDP growth as the be-all and end-all of development. As is often the case with the New York Times, I found the most important information buried towards the end of the story, as though the editors didn&#8217;t actually think it was important! What is needed instead, some economists say, is a wholesale re-examination of development’s goals. &#8230; Beijing, at least, appears to have gotten the message, if its investments in green technology and public transportation are anything to go by. The Communist Party has also revised the promotion criteria for officials so that environmental conditions are included along with gross domestic product. It&#8217;s hard to underestimate the significance of this type of policy measure in China. To gain official promotion in China does not simply result in greater financial  rewards or abstract &#8220;prestige&#8221; but rather access to powerful social networks that can result in very real financial, social, and personal rewards. To make this privilege conditional upon an official&#8217;s meeting environmental targets, is thus a significant way that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>daoism&#8217;s quest for relevance</title>
		<link>http://www.sustainablechina.info/2010/06/25/daoisms-quest-for-relevance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a Wall Street Journal blog today, Christopher Carothers asks, &#8220;Is Daoism is losing its way?&#8221; He writes: Today, Buddhism is regaining its traditional place as the largest religion in Chinese society. Islam is expanding through the growth of Muslim families in the Hui and Uyghur minority ethnic groups. Protestantism and Catholicism are winning new converts all over China and shaking off the old label of “foreign religion.” Daoism, on the other hand, seems to be standing still. Worse still, he argues, Daoism is often ridiculed by other religions, as was the case in the recent incident in Singapore, in which a Christian pastor was forced to apologize for his anti-Daoist remarks. Singapore has strict rules concerning public speech about religion, so one can only imagine what anti-Daoist sentiments are being expressed in countries without such restrictions on free speech. Carothers offers a reason for this reported decline, quoting unnamed researchers who say &#8220;the main reasons for Daoism’s troubles are its poor social networking and the lack of available information about its teachings.&#8221; This reason deserves further explanation. It&#8217;s certainly true that Daoism is a lineage-based tradition which prizes knowledge and training that are passed on orally from teacher to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>avatar vs. confucius</title>
		<link>http://www.sustainablechina.info/2010/02/02/avatar-vs-confucius/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>james</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 life in China? As this report makes clear, Avatar vs. Confucius in China, some Chinese netizens are calling for a boycott of the Confucius biopic, arguing that the government is only promoting Confucianism in order to help suppress political dissent. In contrast Avatar is seen by Chinese people as a fable regarding the power of the state over local communities: “What is ‘Avatar’ about?” asked one contributor on the Web site Mop. “It’s about the government’s forced evictions of people, and about them risking their lives to protest. No Chinese director dares to touch this topic. The report goes on to note that an estimated 30 million people, that&#8217;s nearly the entire population of Canada, have been evicted or relocated during China&#8217;s rapid economic development. On top of this China has an estimated &#8220;floating population&#8221; of some 100 million migrant workers who live in poor conditions on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>china&#8217;s green religion</title>
		<link>http://www.sustainablechina.info/2009/11/05/chinas-green-religion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>james</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;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 the Great Hall of the People. It was my first time in this magnificent building. The purpose of the conference is basically to promote Daoism throughout China and the World. It is being funded by a wealthy donor, and has received backing at a high level from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Daoism has been something of a poor relative lately. Buddhism is better funded. Confucianism receives a very high level of support form the central government. But to many people, Daoism is poorly understood and associated with superstition. As one of the invited foreign delegates, it seems that my job is to demonstrate international support for this venture, to have my photograph taken along with the 500 or so other delegates, and to be part of the ritual theatre that the organizers have carefully crafted to promote Daoism as an essential ingredient of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>weekly news digest 2009-11-01</title>
		<link>http://www.sustainablechina.info/2009/11/01/weekly-news-digest-2009-11-01/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interview with an American training to be a Daoist priest: Center for Spirituality and Sustainability at S. Illinois U http://bit.ly/1JOMfQ #]]></description>
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		<title>weekly news digest 2009-10-25</title>
		<link>http://www.sustainablechina.info/2009/10/25/weekly-news-digest-2009-10-25/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An exhibition introducing the Taoist traditions of ethnic people in northern Vietnam opened in Hanoi on October 21. http://bit.ly/3LopcJ #]]></description>
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		<title>weekly news digest 2009-10-18</title>
		<link>http://www.sustainablechina.info/2009/10/18/weekly-news-digest-2009-10-18/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blogging the conference on eco-aesthetics at Shu Yen University: China’s contribution to sustainable development http://bit.ly/1xCHPj #]]></description>
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		<title>weekly news digest 2009-10-11</title>
		<link>http://www.sustainablechina.info/2009/10/11/weekly-news-digest-2009-10-11/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eight Ideas Behind China&#39;s Success, including Confucian values http://bit.ly/15BW5l # My think tank article &#34;China&#39;s Quest for an Ecologically Sustainable Culture&#34; at Atlantic-Communtiy.org http://bit.ly/XM7CB #]]></description>
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		<title>weekly news digest 2009-10-04</title>
		<link>http://www.sustainablechina.info/2009/10/04/weekly-news-digest-2009-10-04/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Confucius&#39;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. &#8211; - An interview with me in the The Whig Standard &#8212; http://bit.ly/1PKNCq # Conference on eco-aesthetics in Hong Kong with a keynote from me on Ecology, Aesthetics and Daoist Body Cultivation. http://bit.ly/Gow4V # 2nd Annual Arizona State University Graduate Conference on Asian Studies: Sustainability in Asia &#124; http://bit.ly/4DpRTn #]]></description>
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		<title>china&#8217;s transition to sustainability</title>
		<link>http://www.sustainablechina.info/2009/10/01/chinas-transition-to-sustainability/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is reproduced from today&#8217;s Kingston Whig-Standard. &#160; Change in offing in China, prof says Posted By PAUL SCHLIESMANN Behind today&#8217;s show of military might celebrating its 60th anniversary, the People&#8217;s Republic of China is undergoing significant environmental policy change, according to a Queen&#8217;s University professor. &#8220;Economic expansion has been successful in terms of lifting people out of poverty and bringing economic wealth to China,&#8221; said James Miller, a professor of religious studies at Queen&#8217;s. &#8220;They can&#8217;t keep on doing this for the next 50 or 60 years because the environmental and social costs are very high.&#8221; Miller is part of a movement that believes religious traditions can be used to effect environmental change. This summer, he and a group of academics from the U. S. met with China&#8217;s vice-minister of environmental protection. Miller was encouraged by China&#8217;s announcement at last week&#8217;s G20 meetings in Pittsburgh that it was putting a five-year economic development plan in place that would include an emissions trading system. In the past, Miller said, China would have waited for the United States to take the lead. &#8220;The attitude has been, we&#8217;re a developing country, we&#8217;re not going to make the first move,&#8221; he said. [...]]]></description>
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