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		<title>avatar vs. confucius</title>
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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>sustainable economic decisions</title>
		<link>http://www.sustainablechina.info/2009/05/13/sustainable-economic-decisions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 14:51:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>james</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday the New York Times published a report,  China Outpaces U.S. in Cleaner Coal-Fired Plants, which documented China&#8217;s transition to cleaner forms of energy. Although much of China&#8217;s energy needs are still met by inefficient coal-fired power stations with poor track records in terms of emissions, China has begun to invest heavily in cleaner coal technology with a view to improving efficiency and reducing emissions. The effect of this transition is already being taken into account by climate forecasters. China’s improvements are starting to have an effect on climate models. In its latest annual report last November, the I.E.A. cut its forecast of the annual increase in Chinese emissions of global warming gases, to 3 percent from 3.2 percent, in response to technological gains, particularly in the coal sector, even as the agency raised slightly its forecast for Chinese economic growth. “It’s definitely changing the baseline, and that’s being taken into account,” said Jonathan Sinton, a China specialist at the energy agency Buried innocuously in the middle of this report was the startlingly frank statement of Cao Peixi, president of the China Huaneng group, China&#8217;s largest state-owned electric company: “We shouldn’t look at this project from a purely financial perspective,” he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>religious traditions and the future of east asia</title>
		<link>http://www.sustainablechina.info/2009/01/19/religious-traditions-and-the-future-of-east-asia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:25:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s three reasons why China&#8217;s traditional religions and cultures will play an increasingly important role in the East Asian political scene.  In mainland China, more people than ever are turning to religion. An interview with Arrianna Liu, who works in a Beijing-based NGO, reported that it&#8217;s not just the government&#8217;s attitudes that have changed. Ordinary people are now more curious about religion, and more tolerant of it, especially foreign religions such as Christianity. Confucianism is increasingly being recognized as part of the social fabric that holds East Asian society together. Chinese scholars such as Kang Xiaoguang at Renmin University in Beijing, which has traditionally trained the cadre ranks of the Communist Party, openly advocate a more direct reliance on Confucian values for future policy directions. Moreover, Confucianism is also key to understanding East Asian society from Korea to Vietnam. And it is also a source of controversy for diaspora Chinese living in Indonesia.  Buddhism is playing an important bridging role in relations between mainland China and Taiwan. China&#8217;s second World Buddhist Forum is being held in the spring this year and is being held jointly between the mainland and Taiwan. Academics and Buddhist teachers will be holding the first part [...]]]></description>
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		<title>china&#8217;s confucian revival</title>
		<link>http://www.sustainablechina.info/2008/12/30/chinas-confucian-revival/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By James Miller In a recent article entitled Two Big China Stories You Missed This Year Jeffrey Wasserstrom, a respected professor of Chinese history at UC Irvine, highlighted the rehabilitation of Confucius as one of the most significant trends in contemporary China. As a historian, his main point was, well, historical. To outsiders it may seem perfectly normal that Chinese leaders want to associate themselves with Confucius, China&#8217;s most famous philosopher. But this would be to ignore the fact that for most of the 20th century, Confucius was distinctly out of favour among the CCP leadership. According to Communist revolutionaries, Confucianism was a patriarchal feudal ideology that could have no place in the &#8220;new China.&#8221; How staggering it was, therefore, to see Confucius at the heart of the mega-spectacle of the Beijing Olympics.  Wasserstrom writes: This revival reached new heights during the torch run, when the flame&#8217;s arrival in Qufu, the sage&#8217;s hometown, was celebrated lavishly. It was then taken to an even higher crescendo during the Opening Ceremony, when Confucius was quoted as Hu [Jintao] and other leaders looked on with approval. Then 3,000 actors took the stage at the Bird&#8217;s Nest, dressed up to represent a massive contingent of the [...]]]></description>
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