Chen Ying, Xiang Wei-Ning
Tongji University, Shanghai, China.
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, USA.
Socioecol Pract Res. 2020;2(4):337-346. doi: 10.1007/s42532-020-00061-4. Epub 2020 Sep 9.
In an extraordinarily willing and swift fashion, the top leader of Shanxi Province in China, Tao Lujia [, (1917-2011)], gave permission to the Red Flag Canal Project in 1960. Why was he so willing and swift to greenlight a project that would divert water from his home province to benefit the people in a neighbor province? We explored this question through a bipartite investigation. First, we dug into the empirical literature, the literature based on experience and/or observation, in search of his motivations for the action. Second, for a more systematic, deeper understanding, we examined the instance via a lens of compassion practice, an eclectic collection of theoretical constructs on compassion practice through which one can examine an individual's behavior and performance for new insights. This article reports the second part of our research. It is a sequel to which reports the first part of our research and is also published in this journal. Both articles are part of the mini-series on the Red Flag Canal, one of the best kept secrets in the world history of socio-ecological practice.
中国山西省的最高领导人陶鲁笳（1917 - 2011）在1960年以极其积极迅速的方式批准了红旗渠工程。他为何如此积极迅速地批准一项将把他所在省份的水调往邻省造福百姓的工程呢？我们通过两方面调查来探究这个问题。首先，我们深入研究实证文献，即基于经验和/或观察的文献，以寻找他采取这一行动的动机。其次，为了更系统、更深入地理解，我们通过慈悲实践的视角来审视这个事例，慈悲实践是一系列关于慈悲实践的理论构建的集合，通过它可以审视个人的行为和表现以获得新的见解。本文报告我们研究的第二部分。它是[前文名称]的续篇，[前文名称]报告了我们研究的第一部分，也发表在本期刊上。这两篇文章都是关于红旗渠的系列短文的一部分，红旗渠是世界社会生态实践历史上最鲜为人知的秘密之一。
