> In #China.. #PrasenjitDuara has shown, #industrialism and #consumerism faced.. resistances from.. #Taoist, #Confucian and #Buddhist traditions... influential thinkers..[saw] the implications of large-scale #modernization.. #ZhangShizhao (1881–1973).. minister of education in #DuanQirui’s government: ‘While finitude characterizes all things under heaven.. appetites alone know no bounds.. the depletion of finite things would soon come when used to satisfy insatiable desires.’ #AmitavGhosh