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Chinese Environmental Ethics (Hardcover)
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Chinese Environmental Ethics (Hardcover)
Series: Chinese Environmental Ethics
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An interdisciplinary collection in the new field of environmental
humanities, this volume brings together Chinese environmental
ethics, religious ontology, and religious practice to explore how
traditional Chinese religio-environmental ethics are actually put
into social practice both in China's past and present. It also
examines how Chinese religious teachings offer a wealth of
resources to the environmental project of forging new ontologies
for humans co-existing with other living beings. Different chapters
examine how: Buddhist ontology avoids anthropocentrism, fengshui
(Chinese geomancy) can help protect the landscape from economic
development, popular religion organizes tree-planting, ancient
dream interpretation practices avoided constructing the possessive
individual subjectivity of modern consumerism, Buddhist rituals and
ethics promoted compassion for animals and modern recycling,
Confucian ancestor rituals and tombs have deterred industrial
expansion, and also how Daoism's potential role to deter
desertification in northern China was stymied by state operations
in contemporary China. A significant advance in the field of
Chinese environmental anthropology, the outstanding scholars in
this volume provide a unique and much needed contribution to the
scholarship on China and the environment.
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