Education Thrives IN NYINGCHI

By the end of October1999, there were 276schools in the NyingchiPrefecture, with 22,868students of the Tibetan, Han, Moinbaand Lhoba ethnic groups.They include one high school,nine middle schools and one polytechnic secondary school, with atotal of 2,377 students; 66 primaryschools and 198 study classes, with20,491 pupils.More than 95 percent of theschoolage children are attendingschools.INCREASED INVESTMENT.Such achievement was made as aresult partly of increased governmentallocatio…     

Four Nature Reserves IN NYINGCHI

With an annual average temperature of 8.7degrees Centigrade, Nyingchi in southeastChina enjoys an annual precipitation of665mm, along with an average of 2,022.2hours a year and an annual frost-free period of about 180days.In Nyingchi, there are 3.74 million hectares of forestland, including 2.64 million hectares of forestry offering882 million cubic meters of timber reserves. Trees cover46 percent of the land in the prefecture, and make up 65percent of the forests in Tibet as a whole.For the…     

Ancient Pottery FOUND IN NYINGCHI

It was drizzling when LiLindui and Ireached Bayi Town,capital of Nyingchi Prefecture.on May 25, 2000, for a survey ofancient tombs. Late May was therainy season.In the past year since our lastvisit, the town had added many newbuildings and roads.It was four in the afternoonwhen we got to the town, but we stillwent direct to the Cultural Bureau.People there briefed us on theancient tombs and showedus three pieces of pottery. Finding thesewere from the earlyand middle Tubo period, we immed…     

TIBETAN PIGS IN NYINGCHI BRING WEALTH TO VILLAGERS

<正>Nyingchi City situated at the southeast of Tibet is known for its Tibetan pigs,selling pork contributes a key part of the villagers'family income.The pork of the Tibetan pigs is more expensive than the common pork in the markets,because it is believed with better taste and good for health.In many Tibetan farming areas and especially in the eastern Nyingchi,normally,each family raises ten to fifteen Tibetan pigs.It is called the Tibetan pigs,because the pig breed was said to be domesticated from wild boar,according to local Tibetans.     

Weather Folk-Lore of the Sea

L'ANNÉE SOCIOLOGIQUE, publiée sous la direction de EMILE DURKHEIM, Professeur de Sociologie à l'Université de Bordeaux. Huitième Année (1903–1904). Paris: Félix Alcan. 1905. Reviewed by E. Sidney Hartland.

CXTLTES, MYTHES, ET RELIGIONS. Par SAL. REINACH, Membre de l'Institut Vol. I. Paris: E. Leroux 1905. Reviewed by Alfred Nutt.

DES DIVINITÉS GÉNÉRATRICES, OU DU CULTE DU PHALLUS CHEZ LES ANCIENS ET LES MODERN ES. BY J. A. DULAURE. Paris: Societé du Mercure de France, 1905. Reviewed by E. Sidney Hartland.

CRYSTAL-GAZING : ITS HISTORY AND PRACTICE, WITH A DISCUSSION OF THE EVIDENCE FOR TELEPATHIC SCRYING. With an Introduction by ANDREW LANG, M.A., LL.D. By NORTHCOTE W. THOMAS, M.A. Alexander Moring Limited. 1905. Reviewed by Edward Clodd.

VOTIVE WEIHEGABEN DES KATHOLISCHEN VOLKS IN SÜDDEUTSCHLAND. ElN BEITRAG ZUR VOLKSKUNDE. Von RICHARD ANDRES. Mit 38 Abbildungen im Text, 140 Abbildungen auf 32 Tafeln, und 2 Farbendrucktafeln. Braunschweig: Vieweg und Sohn. 1904. 12 marks paper, 13.50 cloth.

DIE MYTHEN UND LEGENDÉN DER SÜDAMERIKANISCHEN URVÖLKER UND IHRE BEZIEHUNGEN ZU DENEN NORDAMERIKAS UND DER ALTEN WELT. Von DR. PAUL EHRENREICH. Berlin: A. Asher &; Co., 1905. Reviewed by E. Sidney Hartland.

THE FAROES AND ICELAND: STUDIES IN ISLAND LIFE. By NELSON ANNANDALE. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905. Reviewed by Edward Brabrook.

THE SHADE OF THE BALKANS, being a collection of Bulgarian Folk-songs and Proverbs, here for the first time rendered into English, together with an essay on Bulgarian Popular Poetry, and another on the Origin of the Bulgar. Nutt 1904. 7s. 6d. net.

CONTINENTAL FOLK-LORE SOCIETIES. Volkskundliche Zeitschriftenschau für 1903, herausgegeben im Auftrage der hessischen Vereinigung für Volkskunde. Von Adolf Strack. Leipzig, 1905. 8vo. Pp. 281. Hessische Blätter für Volkskunde. Von Adolf Strack. Bd. IV., Heft I., Leipzig, 1905. 8vo. Pp. 96. Mitteilungen des Verbandes deutscher Vertine für Volkskunde, 1 and 2, Januar und Juli, 1905. Sehweizerisches Archiv für Volkskunde, IX. 3. Zürich, 1905. Mitteilungen der Anthropologischen Gesellschaft in Wien, XXXIV., 6 ; XXXV, 1. Sagenschatt der Stadt Weimar. Von Ellen und Paul Mitxschke. Weimar, 1904, 8vo. Pp. xviii., 152. Price 2 M. 40 pf. Reviewed by N. W. Thomas.

WEST AFRICA BEFORE EUROPE, AND OTHER ADDRESSES. By E. W. BLTDKN, LL.D. London: C. M. Phillips, 1905. 8vo. Pp. iv, 158. Reviewed by N. W. Thomas.     

党内民主是党的生命

江泽民同志在十六大报告中论述加强和改进党的建设问题时,提出了“党内民主是党的生命”这一深刻命题。这是对党的历史经验的一个很好的总结,为党的建设、特别是处在执政地位的党的建设指明了方向。 把党内民主视为党的生命,是基于对党的性质及其历史使命的深刻把握。我们党从诞生的那一天起,就是工人阶级的先锋队,以求得中国人民的彻底解放作为自己的职志,这是一个目标崇高、没有私利的党,一个追求真理、光明磊落的党,因而能够把民族中的优秀分子集合在     

Tibetan History of Weather Monitoring

Modern weather monitoringbegan in Tibet at the end of the19th century.In 1894,theBritish set up a weather moni-toring station in Chunpei of Yadong,which continued to operate until August1956.In the 1940s.the Nationalist Gov-ernment’S Ministry of Communicationsset up a rainfall measuring station in     

Forecasting in Economic Geography

Economic-geographic forecasting is intended to predict the dynamics of the interplay between nature and society and to serve as the basis for economic development plans. Because of the large number of variables involved, probability analysis may be expected to play an important role in economic-geographic forecasts. One approach suggested is the analysis of chain reactions involved in various energy-and-production cycles, the name given to integrated economic-geographic systems based on the use of a given set of energy and raw-material sources.     

Vital Creativity: Exhibiting Beauty and Heritage in Material Culture

Museum exhibits are an important but often overlooked source of anthropological, folklore and decorative art analyses. Some exhibits are cross-cultural and focus on object types; others deal with the cultures of particular peoples. This review assesses two exhibit catalogues that deal with each of these two types: Gavin, Pierce, and Pleguezuelo's Cerámica y Cultura: The Story of Spanish and Mexican Mayólica deals with one art form and its development, and Griffith's Hecho a Mano: The Traditional Arts of Tucson's Mexican American Community documents the home arts of Mexican Americans in Tucson, Arizona during the 1990s.     

Gyila:Tibet's First Senior Weather Man

There is no-one in the field of weather broadcasting in Tibet who does notknow about Gyila: Top 10 Youth of China, China's Outstanding Scientist, winner of the 5th China Youth Scientific Progress, and winner of first May 4th Medal for Tibetan Youths.What people tell of him are legendary stories. Actually, he is an ordinary man who has cut a brilliant figure in work.