Party vs Profit in Tug of War Over Chinese Buddhism
Amid a renewed domestic interest in Buddhism, sacred Chinese Buddhist sites have in recent years...
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Qigong Master Wang Lin Detained in Murder Case
Wang Lin, a renowned qigong guru with ties to prominent Chinese celebrities and politicians, has...
China’s Way to Happiness
In the New York Review of Books, Ian Johnson interviews Richard Madsen, a scholar on Chinese...
The Pursuit of Fortune, Truth, and Faith in China
The Claremont Colleges’ Keck Journal of Foreign Affairs interviewed former New Yorker China...
Success Brings Scrutiny to Chinese Mystic
Over the past week and amid a state campaign discouraging superstition among the political elite, “Qigong master” Wang Lin has attracted much attention in the Chinese media due to his relationships with high-profile...
China’s “Tortured Contemporary Psyche”
Drawing on his experience as a visiting professor in Chongqing, Gerard Lemos laments the anxieties faced by China’s masses under the rule of a Communist party plagued by divisions at the top and corruption at the bottom....
Notes from a Chinese Cave: Qigong’s Quiet Return
In the New York Review of Books, Ian Johnson writes about his experiences on a ten-day qigong retreat in a cave: In November, I came to Jinhua with about 400 others on a ten-day retreat to study with Wang Liping, probably...
The Rise of the Tao
The New York Times Magazine has a lengthy article about the renovation of a Taoist temple and the revival of the belief system in China: RELIGION HAS LONG played a central role in Chinese life, but for much of the 20th century,...
Hu Yong: I Wish the Chinese People Would Have More Feelings of Awe
Chinese intellectual Hu Yong wrote an essay on his blog commenting on the first national day of mourning in China: May 19th was the first national day of mourning in China since the nation’s establishment. A large group of...
The Holy Olympic Torch, Atheism and Tibet
Beijing based poet, writer and blogger Dong Guangfu (董桄福) published the following essay online, partially translated by Linjun Fan: The holy Olympic Torch has been lighted, and passed on across the world. The dream of a large...
Letter from China: For Beijing, fear grows as spirituality blooms – Howard W. French
From the International Herald Tribune: At Bei Shan Si, an ancient Taoist shrine that sits atop one of the peaks that ring this old Silk Road city, worshipers turn out in large numbers on a misty Sunday morning to climb the shrine’s many stairs, to burn incense in an appeal to the gods, or simply […]
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