ISBN:
9780415855150
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9781138079281
Language:
English
Pages:
xx, 247 Seiten
,
Abbildungen, Karten, Illustrationen
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24 cm
Series Statement:
Routledge contemporary China series 119
Series Statement:
Routledge contemporary China series
DDC:
338.951/07
Keywords:
Human ecology
;
Religion Social aspects
;
Nature Social aspects
;
Sustainability
;
Konferenzschrift 2012
;
Konferenzschrift 2012
;
Konferenzschrift 2012
;
China
;
Religion
;
Religionsgeografie
;
Sozialökologie
;
Nachhaltigkeit
;
Ethik
Abstract:
"This book sheds light on the social imagination of nature and environment in contemporary China. It demonstrates how the urgent debate on how to create an ecologically sustainable future for the world's most populous country is shaped by its complex engagement with religious traditions, competing visions of modernity and globalization, and by engagement with minority nationalities who live in areas of outstanding natural beauty on China's physical and social margins"--
Abstract:
"This book sheds light on the social imagination of nature and environment in contemporary China. It demonstrates how the urgent debate on how to create an ecologically sustainable future for the world's most populous country is shaped by its complex engagement with religious traditions, competing visions of modernity and globalization, and by engagement with minority nationalities who live in areas of outstanding natural beauty on China's physical and social margins. The book develops a comprehensive understanding of contemporary China that goes beyond the tradition/ modernity dichotomy, and illuminates the diversity of narratives and worldviews that inform contemporary Chinese understandings of and engagements with nature and environment"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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First issued in paperback 2017
