China's return to religion
My experience in China as a student point me to believe that most Chinese kowtow and go to temples for tradition and spirituality rather than institutionalized religion.<p>The entire article sounds like a westerner applying their cultural values and their sense of righteousness to China.  For example:<p>&gt;&quot;But I do think that it does create values that are higher than any government&#x27;s values - ideas of righteousness and justice that people are inspired by and that will inspire them to action if they feel that they are unjustly treated by the government.&quot;<p>(I&#x27;m an american born chinese but was brought to China for about 6 years by my mother)<p>Edit:  My grandmother is extremely Buddhist, and both my mother and I are nonreligious.  Even so, my mother brought me to the Confucius temple to kowtow and light incense, not because it actually did anything, but because it was a move of ancestral respect and tradition.