On November 5, the First International Summit on Laozi and Daoist Culture was held in Beijing, attracting 600 professionals, scholars, Daoists and followers of Daoism. The two-day summit, with the ...

Each March, many of the country’s most selective colleges and universities release their admissions decisions, reviving debates over the roles of race, wealth and privilege – and putting Americans’ ...

Christian, Buddhist, Hindu and Muslim are the only religious identities that are each claimed by at least 5% of Asian American adults. Fewer than 1% of Asian Americans say that their present religion ...

The Confucius Institute has now been established for eight years, and there is a new global wave of interest in studying Putonghua. Nowadays, Chinese society realizes the cultural power of ...

UW-Milwaukee philosophy professor Mark Peterson says that the Chinese Daoism is one of the closest real world representations of the practice of the Force in "Star Wars." While the Star Wars films ...

In 142 CE, the divine Lord Lao descended to Mount Cranecall (Sichuan province) to establish a new covenant with humanity through a man named Zhang Ling, the first Celestial Master. Facing an impending ...

Since its inception more than two thousand years ago in the Eastern Han dynasty, Daoism (also known as Taoism) has permeated every aspect of Chinese life and culture, from politics, philosophy, ...

Leaders of the China Daoist Association, in a meeting with Chinas top political advisor, Jia Qinglin, Wednesday, were urged to use traditional Daoist thought to support society and socialism, ...

How are we, as humans, meant to live together? Every culture has asked this question, and countless philosophers and politicians have offered their answers. From Plato’s Republic to Thomas More’s ...

In late August, Chinese American author Ken Liu broke from his typical focus on speculative fiction to release a new book that combined non-fiction with translation. “Laozi’s Dao De Jing: A New ...