The cultural dimension of sustainability as the fourth pillar overall sustainable development framework encompasses both tangible and intangible cultures. In this study, culture refers to home environments Chinese residents in China North America, while their faiths belief systems, other words, philosophy religion, reflected (or not) environments. paper argues that religion have historically co...

This paper sets out to investigate Chinese university students’ ELF awareness, which is conceptualised with regards to language education. The study, based on 24 semistructured interviews, demonstrates that Chinese university students are still framing their understanding of English with the affiliation to idealised notions of monolingual origin of native English, despite being situated in a ch...

ALTHOUGH NURSING THEORISTS have incorporated some concepts from Asian wisdom traditions (Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism) into their works, the ways that these traditions might inform Western nursing philosophies, praxis, and ethics is underdeveloped in the professional literature. These differences have been more extensively explored in disciplines other than nursing (psychology, philosophy...

Philosophy is an eternal topic of human development, and it also the basic promoter inheritance development traditional culture. Since ancient times, there have been many differences in concepts mechanisms between Chinese Western philosophies. Moral ethics, natural health preservation, golden mean are main manifestations philosophical concepts. This feature culture, which shows strong secularis...

 This paper investigates the effect of decision-makers’ culture on their implicit choice of how to make decisions. In a content analysis of major decisions described in American and Chinese twentieth-century novels, we test a series of hypotheses based on prior theoretical and empirical investigations of cross-cultural variation in human motivation and decision processes. The data show ...

JBC Vol. 32, No. 1 2006 A medical illustration is the culmination of centuries of medical philosophy, science, and spirituality. Despite similar beginnings, different circumstances surrounding the development of Chinese and Western medical thought eventually led to their divergence. Through an historical comparison, I will attempt to demonstrate how the East and the West came to have such diffe...

Ginkgo has been a mainstay of traditional Chinese medicine for more than 5000 years. Perhaps the ancient Taoist Monks had some vision of the future of Ginkgo as a brain and memory tonic when they planted it ceremonially in places of honor in their monasteries. They felt that this two lobed, fan-shaped leaf (biloba) represented the two phases of Yin and Yang in Taoist Philosophy. Ginkgo was plan...