WITHOUT SOCIALISM THERE WOULD BE NO TIBET TODAY──Three Indian Parties Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet

More Than 200 Delegates Take Part in CelebrationOn June 5, the CPI-M, CPI and AIFB-the three leftwing political parties in India with a combined membership of 30 million-met in New Delhi to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the peaceful liberation of Tibet. H. Surjeet (CPI-M General Secretary), A.B. Bardhan (CPI General Secretary), G.Devarajan (Secretary of the AIFB Secretariat), as well as some 200 delegates representing certain leftwing mass organizations, such as the All-I…     

Evil ThingsTurned IntoGood Things─In Memory of 40th Anniversary of the Democratic Rrform in Tibet

TheDemocraticReformconductedinTibetin1959startedwithsuppressionoftherebellionlaunchedbyreactionariesintheuppersocialstratainTibettostoptheDemocraticReformandsplitthemotherland.AsearlyasJuly1957,therewerePeoplewhoheldgrandritualsinthePotalaPalacetoacceptareportdeliveredbythereactionaryfourriversandsixmountainrangesmovementwhichdemandedthe14thDalaiLamaexerciseruleoverallTibetanareasinChina.Rightafterthat,ringleadersofthemovementgatheredinZhegutang,Shannan,organizingrebeltroopscalledther…     

Modernization in Tibet: A Boon or a Bane for the Tibetans?

Thissoundsridiculous,butitisreallysomethingatissue.Intheworldtoday,therearepeoplewhoaredebatingonwhethermodernizationdriveshouldbecarriedinTibet.SomestandformodernizationinTibet.Theybolstertheirviewbyarguingthatsucheffortwillalsohelppromotedevelopmentoftraditionalcultureintheregion.However,therearealsopeoplewhowagtheirfingersatsucheffort,pointingoutthatitwillleadtodestructionoftradi-tionalculture.WhethermodernizationisgoodorbadtotheTibetansiscleartotheworldtoday.Inthisissue,wepublishFarmers…     

OUTSTANDINC ACHIEVEMENTS FORETELL BRIGHT FUTURE──In celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the founding of the Tibet Autonomus Region

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On the Spacing of Time: On “The Tide of History”

The author discusses aspects of how time appears and is used by the individual and by society. In focus is what the author calls the ideological time scale as it appears in Western society. The concept of the ideological time scale implies systems of strong, ideological signals transferred through time in the human mind from one generation to another. One such signal is the age-old concept of the hero and the symbolism projected around this concept. The paper ends with an admonition to scholars to be aware of and study the kinds of messages transferred through time by this signal system. These messages carry important information about the ways in which society directs itself in the time continuum.     

Singing From the Heart of the Snowland——50th Anniversary of the singing Career of Cedain Zholma

A solo concert was held to mark the 50th singing career of Cedain Zholma on December 22,2003.The next day,she went to Hunan at the head of the Tibet Song and Dance Troupe where she sang in a concert held by Shaoshan and Xiantan, hometown of Mao Zedong. Upon invitation of Yunnan, she went to Yunnan for solo performance. On this basis, the TAR Federation for Literaturary and Art Circles published a pictorial titled Highland Soul： Cedain Zholma and a book entitled Music of Snowland： Biography of Cedain Zholma, which were first sold in Xiantan of Hunan Province on December 26.     

D'Arcy Thompson's ‘On Growth and Form’ and the Rediscovery of Geometry within the Geographic Tradition

Abstract

D'Arcy Thompson (1960–1948) was one of the most celebrated biologists of his day, best known for his On Growth and Form (1917) which was the first successful biophysical explanation of the size and shape of organisms. In particular, his concept of allometric growth and theory of transformations have informed cutting edge research in biometrics and practice in the fields of fine art, urban design and civil engineering. He was a seminal figure in the development of the spatial analysis tradition within geography in the 1960s and 1970s underpinning major contributions by Haggett and Bunge and inspiring Tobler to develop cartograms which liberated map projections from sole reliance on Euclidean geometry. Re-assessing his contribution to geography fifty years later, it is still to be found in Batty's work on the size, shape and scale of cities and in Dorling's World Mapper project. This re-discovery of the importance of geometry within the geographic tradition over the last half century owes much to Thompson who spent the whole of his academic life in the University of St Andrews and (what was later to become) the University of Dundee.     

In Search of the Good Life: Life‐History of a Kenyan Indian Settler. A Sartrean Approach to Biography and History

This article recounts how a young Shi’a Muslim Indian born in north‐west India migrated to Kenya in the early twentieth century in the context of the evolving trade linking the two continents, and rose to become a successful merchant and respected member of the community. It portrays the struggles that he undertook with fellow Kenyan Indians against British colonial policies of racial discrimination and political marginalization, and shows some of the unintended consequences of these actions for the group in the post‐colonial period. Through the application of Jean‐Paul’s Sartre’s concepts of project, situation, seriality and dialectical totalization, the article attempts to capture some of the historical processes that took place during the period at four interconnected levels: individual; communal; regional; and global.     

Because It Is There"──50th Anniversary of the Success in Dwarfing Qomolangma

Man first conquered the8,848. 13-meter Mt.Qomolangma on May29,1953, and 50 yearshas now passed since that momentousevent. In the past half-century, manyhave followed suit to dwarf the peak,leaving behind many heroic stories. In the period from 1921, when aBritish mountaineering team first ven-tured to challenge the world's highestmountain, to the end of November2002, mountaineers from variouscountries in the world organized morethan 420 climbs, and 1,200 peoplesucceeded in reaching the summit;they have opened up 42 routes leadingto the top.     

‘Who Will Write the History of Tears?’ History of Ideas and History of Emotions from Eighteenth-Century France to the Present

Summary

The aim of this article is to shed light on the methodological relationship between the history of ideas and the history of emotions, starting from the conception of weeping in the eighteenth-century French reflection. This period was critical for the defining of the modern concept of emotion because it encompassed the development of a new aesthetic and moral code centred on the exasperation of sensitivity and an exaggerated use of tears. This study brings out, in terms of methodology, the importance that the analysis of tears assumed from two points of view: on the one hand, it places the problem in a framework determined by history and culture (the object of study for the history of emotions); on the other, it recognises the unavoidable axiological and moral element that characterised crying (the object of study for the history of ideas). After a brief reconstruction of the discussion of tears in the history of emotion—from the histoire des mentalités to the ‘emotional turn’—and in the history of ideas, respectively, the article outlines some potential areas for research in an interdisciplinary perspective.     

Foot Prints of the History──Prefsce to the Diary on Marching Into Tibet＇ by Lin Tian

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