Choking pollution. Grim competition. Education by rote. Authoritarian rule. Untrustworthy bureaucracy. Business cronyism. Rampant consumerism.
Mainland China — largely in light of waves of negative articles in the Western media — does not have the greatest international image.
But many people in the East and West believe ancient Chinese philosophy has the potential to lift not only the world’s most populous country, but the planet, out of a downward spiral.
Through a recent burst of
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