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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>what climate change means for religion in china</title>
		<link>http://www.sustainablechina.info/2009/08/25/chinese-religious-responses-to-natural-disasters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:36:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Much intellectual discourse about Chinese philosophical and religious views of nature focuses on ideals such as harmony between humans and the natural world, or &#8220;forming one body with heaven and earth&#8221; (tian ren he yi). But when it comes to historical studies of Chinese environmental history, it&#8217;s hard to find instances of where this ideal was concretely realized. Mark Elvin concludes his monumental history of China&#8217;s environment with the following observation The religious, philosophical, literary, and historical texts surveyed and translated in the foregoing pages have been rich sources of description, insight, and even, perhaps, inspiration. But the dominant ideas and ideologies, which were often to some degree in contradiction with each other, appear to have little explanatory power in determining why what seems actually to have happened to the Chinese environment happened the way it did. Occasionally, yes, Buddhism helped to safeguard trees around monasteries. The law-enforced mystique shrouding Qing imperial tombs kept their surroundings untouched by more than minimal economic exploitation. but in general, no. There seems no case for thinking that, some details apart, the Chinese anthropogenic environment was developed and maintained in the way it was over the long run of more than three millennia because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>did china&#8217;s dams trigger the sichuan earthquake?</title>
		<link>http://www.sustainablechina.info/2009/01/29/did-chinas-dams-trigger-the-sichuan-earthquake/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:54:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[China&#8217;s massive system of hydroelectric dams and water distribution has come under fire once again. Right after the devastating Sichuan earthquake of May 12, 2008, in which over 70,000 people lost their lives, officials rushed to deny that the massive Three Gorges Dam complex hundreds of kilometres downstream could have played any role in triggering the natural disaster. Now officials are working hard to  play down a call by Fan Xiao, Chief Engineer of the Regional Geology Investigation Team of the Sichuan Geology and Mineral Bureau, for scientists to investigate whether the Zipingpu dam project, located upstream of the quake area, may have triggered the earthquake. Fan&#8217;s call comes in the wake of a paper by Christian Klose at Columbia University which theorized how abnormal surface stresses caused by the Zipingpu dam system may have triggered the massive earthquake. Klose&#8217;s hypothesis also matches work conducted by Lei Xinglin a geologist with the China Earthquake Administration in Beijing. According to a recent article in Science magazine, Fan says that although the hypothesis that the dam triggered the earthquake as yet remains unproven, &#8216;We should readjust our existing plans and take a more cautious attitude when planning projects.&#8221;  He doubts, however, that his [...]]]></description>
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