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21st Century Strategies for New Daoism --- A Comprehensive Renewal of China’s Daoist Culture? Prof. HU Fuchen Chinese Academy of Social Sciences? – Part One – ? As the different countries, peoples and cultural traditions in the world stride through the door of a new millennium and enter into the 21st century, there is nothing more important than reflecting on the historical development of the past world so as to open the vista onto mankind’s future. In the past 100 years, there has been explosive development of the energy stores of millions of years, radically changing all aspects of society and culture in ways never before seen, popular ideas from previous decades are quickly eclipsed, and everyone spends their time trying to adapt to the overwhelming and mercurial changes happening throughout the world.? For the past century science and technology have developed in leaps and bounds and mankind’s reliance on tools of reason has changed almost the entire face of the world.? The high level of exploitation of natural resources has enriched the activities of people, but the ecological crisis, environmental pollution, disasters and epidemics, and the danger of war that are threats to the very existence of mankind constitute a reality that 21st century mankind must face.? In the past century a highly materialistic and spiritual civilization was created, but the century also saw two world wars in addition to many bloody battles and barbaric and criminal human slaughters.? Not only this, around the world there has been a rapid rise of greed and corruption, drug abuse, terrorism, moral depravity, the preeminence of self-interest and other vile practices.? To date, nuclear weapons sufficient to wipeout the entire human race, biological weapons and other armaments from the weapons race are part of a force difficult to stop; there is still so-called “Third World” poverty, AIDS, epidemics and the malignant explosion of the population.? Industrialization, urbanization and the t