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"In 1989, the Dalai Lama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his nonviolent efforts to negotiate the Tibetan cause with the chinese government. In the years following, he traveled ever more frequently to the West, where his irrepressible good humor and charismatic spiritual presence helped give new vitality to older romantic visions of Tibet as a Shangri-la (now politically threatened), with much to teach a morally and spiritually impoverished West.87 Everyone, it seemed, wanted the opportunity to explore the deep secret behind this man's happiness and equanimity, and to bask in his warmth." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"The embarrassing failure of Amherst's mission contributed to growing (elite) British disgust with China in general and the chinese government in particular. In the popular press, the British public read tales of Chinese medicine and technology, set in the context of an obstinate and autocratic government. Perhaps even worse, at least for perceptions of Chinese medicine, they were told that Britain's generous attempt to negotiate had been blocked by a Chinese doctor. China during this period gallingly persisted in regarding itself as self-sufTicient, and culturally superior." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"One week after REACH'S final passage in December 2006 in Strasbourg, Zhang Xiangchen, director of the World Trade Organization Affairs Department of the Ministry of Commerce, announced in comments reported by the Xinhua News Service that the chinese government would immediately begin consulting with local industries to help them comply with the new European directive. The government, Zhang said, would assist chemical companies in developing their "risk controlling ability." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.)

"With China split between two extremes, agriculture will inevitably suffer, and water-stressed cities like Beijing and Tianjin will continue to experience shortages - particularly as economic growth spirals upwards and underground aquifers are pumped dry. The chinese government has begun construction of a massive water transfer project, which aims to take billions of cubic metres of water from the Yangtze River in the south to the thirsty cities in the north." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.)

"Lately the chinese government has admitted that cancers in people living along some of its heavily polluted rivers and streams in Huangmengying in the Huai River basin follow the steady flow of heavy metals, leather tanning, paper and pulp mills, and other uncontrolled pollutants that render half of its waters undrinkable.1 Modern nations and modern professions face risks that may be more complex in origins but no less drastic in implications. Some of the doctors I know who have cancer asked me not to write about their struggles." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.)

"As popular as the bikes are, the chinese government doesn't like them, since they threaten the "pillar industry" of auto manufacturing. Officials around the country are trying to ban electric bikes from the streets of many large cities. How this plays out will tell us a lot about where China is headed. jc "Without a change to a more sustainable growth model, China's economy is likely to sputter out, choked off by a shortage of resources and hampered by corruption and pollution ... This new view is apparent in the way Chinese thinkers are starting to measure growth." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "Preceding pages: After months of pro-democracy demonstrations and two days of brutal assaults by the Chinese government's army, "Tank Man" stepped out in front of a line of moving tanks in Tiananmen Square. Although his identity remains unknown, he has become an enduring symbol of the power of individual defiance, Beijing, June 5, 19B9. Left: Red and blue political bracelets demonstrated partisan affiliations during the 2004 U.S. presidential elections. Opposite: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "British design-consultancy firm Arup is working with the chinese government to lead the construction of an "eco-city" expansion to Shanghai. Dongtan, the expanded development near Shanghai's airport, will eventually cover about 2.1,745 acres (8,800 hectares) roughly the size of Manhattan island —and is intended to be a genuinely ecofriendly city, using recycled water, cogeneration, and biomass for energy, and striving to be as carbon-neutral [see Building a Green Home, p. 147] as possible. So what does it mean to be a "genuinely ecofriendly city"?" - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "Arup has agreed to work with the chinese government to extend the green-city model to four more cities around the country. All the cities will be designed to e self-sufficient in energy, water, and most food, and to generate near-zero emissions from transportation. JC Green Rooftops in Beijing mmmm One of the projects under way to clean up Beijing for the 2008 Olympic Games is an ambitious proposal to increase the amount of green space around the Olympic stadiums by planting more of the rooftop gardens known as green roofs [see Greening Infrastructure, p. 256]." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"We cleared the necessary funding hurdles, weathering both CIA intrusiveness and chinese government reticence. We were on our way. We decided to make the study as comprehensive as possible. From the Cancer Atlas, we had access to disease mortality rates on more than four dozen different kinds of disease, including individual cancers, heart diseases and infectious diseases.6 We gathered data on 367 variables and then compared each variable with every other variable. We went into sixty-five counties across China and administered questionnaires and blood tests on 6,500 adults." - T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Get the book.)

"For the first time in centuries, the chinese government and China's social elite no longer showed interest in tea. In fact, when Marco Polo arrived in China in 1275, he was not even introduced to tea. Tea was "rediscovered" when the Chinese regained power over their own country after a hundred-fifty years of Mongolian rule, but this time, tea was not an elixir for the elite alone to drink; it was transformed into a beverage to be enjoyed daily by the entire populace, as it is today." - Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews, The Green Tea Book (Get the book.)

"It could represent a direct civet-to-human transmission of the ancestral SARS virus. The chinese government is proposing to forbid trading wild animals for human consumption and to forbid restaurants to serve endangered and wild animals. After a new case of SARS was identified in early 2004, the chinese government ordered the slaughter of all civet cats. This might sound like a heroic measure, but there are several reasons why it might have little impact. First, the new SARS virus is already among humans, and it might have more reservoirs than just wild animals that people eat." - Jaap Goudsmit M.D., Viral Fitness: The Next SARS and West Nile in the Making (Get the book.)

"Overseas, the chinese government has pledged to reduce the standby power for the 40 million TVs the country manufactures annually. Of course, in your own home and office, be sure to use power strips or surge protectors and turn off electric power completely by using their cut-off capabilities. The article also said even with duct tape, most of our homes lose about 20 percent of heated or cooled air that travels through air ducts due to holes and cracks. In California alone, these leaks cost consumers some $1 to $2 billion annually in energy consumption." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"Secretly, the chinese government finally had to ask the Russians for aid: Please send sparrows, in the name of socialist internationalism! And in at least one way, Mao was worse than both Hitler and Stalin, who had at least left most of the culture of their countries alone. Mao banned Chinese opera, the folk arts, and the fine arts on the grounds of their being feudal or capitalistic. He drove singers, poets, playrights, and writers out of the cities and threatened them with starvation during the Cultural Revolution. Old tombs, monuments, and temples were the next to go." - William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.)

"But deep down even the Chinese government's cult of obedience cannot short-circuit the powers of intelligent observation. Chinese scientists have reported that genetically engineered cotton, after the first five years of its use, has become an unmitigated disaster. Cotton is to Chinese agriculture what canola was to ours. The number of pesticide-resistant pests has increased and is out of control. Worse, the amount of pesticides and the variety needed to get any yield at all has escalated beyond their ability to pay for." - Helke Ferrie, Dispatches From the War Zone of Environmental Health (Get the book.)

"Former head of the Tibetan state, he sought accommodation with the chinese government when it invaded Tibet in 1950. He fled Tibet in 1959 for exile in Dharamsala, India. For his nonviolent resistance to the Chinese occupation, which has killed some one million Tibetans, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989. Text used with permission of China Now magazine, (www.chinanowmag.com); portrait by Nan Sea Love (www.nansealove.com). things. Although in the future, when we have freedom, I will no longer be the head of the Tibetan government. That is my final decision." - APC Books, Healing Our Planet, Healing Our Selves: The Power of change Within to Change the World (Get the book.) "The 50% to 100% fewer chinese government is beginning to respond. Hope s'de er™cts from these begets hope, and we may soon reach a tipping invasive cardiac proce-t dures. This is what sci- Pomt- entists call "big data": a Our national culture needs less a dramatic shift huge effect, in our programs, private or public, than it needs a ? shift in consciousness. The programs that have been advanced during the last few years, notably the Kyoto Protocol, have had great difficulty gaining traction in the U.S." - APC Books, Healing Our Planet, Healing Our Selves: The Power of change Within to Change the World (Get the book.)

"In the first year after it became effective, the chinese government destroyed poor-quality or expired medicines and required uncertified patent medicine producers to comply with established standards. In 1986, as a result of this law, several people who were involved in the production and sale of fake medicines were sent to prison. The chinese government continues to regulate carefully the manufacture of patent medicines." - Sharon Moore, Lupus: Alternative Therapies That Work (Get the book.)

"But in that country the means of transmission is now increasingly a result of sexual practices and drug injection, as in the rest of the world. The chinese government has aggressively suppressed information about the epidemic for reasons that are both political and cultural. The rapid spread of AIDS will heavily tax the economies of large and dynamic countries such as China and India, whereas in Russia the public health system had already substantially broken down with the demise of the Soviet bureaucracy." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) "In addition, the chinese government intends to siphon water from the Yangtze—which has not yet run dry—and send it over by a canal system to the Yellow River and Beijing, respectively. When it is running, the Yellow River is already one of the most particle-laden in the world. Because of that, it is estimated that the Xiaolangdi dam would silt up within thirty years of completion. The $58 billion project is reminiscent of another centrally planned mega-project that ended in grief: the Soviet Union's scheme to drain the Aral Sea to irrigate gigantic cotton farms in Kazakhstan." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.)

"In addition, the chinese government has emphasized systematizing Chinese traditional medicine and raising it to a higher level. As a result, the tra- TABLE 2.4. Families containing more than 100 medicinal plant species." - Amarjit S. Basra, Handbook of Medicinal Plants (Get the book.)

"Fear of the Soviet Union rose sharply with the Soviet blockade of East Berlin (1948-49), the Soviet announcement that they had detonated their first atomic bomb (1949), the arrest of several people accused of spying for the Soviets (1948-50), the overthrow of the pro-U.S. chinese government by communist revolutionaries (1949), and news that communist North Korea had invaded non-communist South Korea (June 1950). The latter event prompted Truman to intervene militarily." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.)

"Chinese government in its notorious attack on student demonstrators at Tiananmen Square in Beijing six months earlier. A new president friendly to the United States was installed in Panama, but poverty and unemployment remained, and in 1992 the New York Times reported that the invasion and removal of Noriega "failed to stanch the flow of illicit narcotics through Panama." The United States however, succeeded in one of its aims, to reestablish its strong influence over Panama." - Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (Get the book.)

"After a new case of SARS was identified in early 2004, the chinese government ordered the slaughter of all civet cats. This might sound like a heroic measure, but there are several reasons why it might have little impact. First, the new SARS virus is already among humans, and it might have more reservoirs than just wild animals that people eat. Second, eating wild-caught exotic animals is a 5,000-year-old tradition in Southern China unlikely to be totally stamped out. Most likely, its prohibition will make the eating of civets even more of an obsession." - Jaap Goudsmit M.D., Viral Fitness: The Next SARS and West Nile in the Making (Get the book.)

"The chinese government, still at that date not yet completely beyond hope of reform, made effort after effort between 1796 and 1830 to bring the trade to an end, but failed. There were too many addicts, too many pushers, too many "respectable" merchants making too much money. In 1838 the Emperor Tao-kwang sent a commissioner, Lin Tze-su, to Canton to stop the contraband trade in opium. He issued an order to the Chinese merchants to destroy their stocks and to the British to remove their drugs, but no one paid any attention." - Henry Hobhouse, Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind (Get the book.)

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