A Visit to Burma

ABSTRACT

Closure of small schools has been a contentious policy issue, addressed most recently in the Schools Consultation (Scotland) Act 2010. Local authorities are currently delivering public service under great financial pressure and, given the high per capita costs of running small schools, have often sought to close them. One of the arguments for retaining small schools is the purported contribution that they make in maintaining rural community vibrancy. However, the evidence base for retaining small schools as ‘the heart of the rural community’ is largely untested, and such evidence as there is suggests that school closures have a modest effect on community vibrancy. School catchment studies show a long-term pattern of adjustment to demographic changes but this process may be curtailed by government policy in Scotland. A solid employment base and affordable housing are deemed by many to be more important factors in rural socio-economic wellbeing than the presence or absence of a primary school.     

A Visit to Zhaxi Nyima

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A Visit to Tholding Monastery

Cities and towns in Tibet are basically centered on monasteries. Lhasa, Xigaze and Qamdo, for example,came into being after monasteries were established on the spot.Lhasa was built based on Jokhang Monastery and the Potala Palace; Xigaze developed from the well known Tashilhungpo Monastery and Qamdo in relation to Qambaling Monastery. A large number of monks living in monasteries needed daily sustenance, so that lay people to serve them began to gather and gradually settle down. Merchants came, too, thereby forming cities. Zada was among them,coming into being with the establishment     

三透九门堂

迷宫般的深宅大院 由于这里的民居多为两层楼,倾斜的屋顶,以及飞翘的檐角,不仅保证雨水以最快的速度滑落到地面,而且向外伸出的下檐,增加了房屋的采光和活动空间.檐廊是房屋与庭院的过渡空间,这里不仅是庭院的重要交通空间,而且这个半户内半户外的地方是家庭生活的主要场所.     

1938年探访安阳殷墟

大多数东方陶瓷学会的成员都非常熟悉安阳这个名字,而且也深知安阳发现的重要意义。但是为其中的一些来宾着想,也许我还需要做一些简单的介绍。     

A Visit to Tibetan Villages in Boyu

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游吴哥古迹 耄耋老人的美丽记忆

吴哥,一座分布在柬埔寨茂密丛林中的历史遗城,位于洞里萨湖之北,距暹粒市约6公里。吴哥古迹占地约15平方公里,始建于8世纪,13世纪完成。吴哥是高棉人(柬埔寨人口最多的民族)的精神中心和宗教中心,作为历史上的东南亚高棉王国的都城,吴哥记载了一个王朝的昌盛与没落。它曾在世上消失了500年,直至19世纪中叶才重见天日,与中国的万里长城,埃及的金字塔,印度尼西亚的婆罗浮屠并称为"东方四大奇迹"。     

A Visit to the Tibetan Medicine College

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A Visit to Pakui Village In Gyangze

Low-lying houses, dirt paths, stinking ditches, a litter-strewn environment, poor school conditions, and poorly equipped clinics-these are problems still plaguing many parts of the rural areas today.Generally speaking, living conditions in rural areas in the autonomous region can only be termed as nasty. In some villages, many houses have no space for bicycles in front. Some of the farmers' houses have their door facing the toilets of the house in front.     

A Visit to the 14th Dalai's Hometown

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A Visit to Gyigu by the Tongtian River

Tongtian River refers to the reach where the Tuto River, the origin of Yangtze River, joins the Tangqu, running southeast and passing the Batang outfall in Yushu, the Tibetan-inhabited area in Qinghai. It stretches 813 km, with a drainage area of 138,000 square km.     

阿庆来西宁

阿庆来西宁了,这其中有一个感人的故事。     

卡地卡哇行

今年初夏一个风和日丽的日子,应好友朱永忠先生之邀,去民和三川拜谒卡地卡哇寺,了却了我一桩多年未了的心愿。为了拜谒它,我们从省城西宁出发,来回行车四百多公里,且多行山路。     

A Visit to Toba Township Primary School In Qamdo

This is a picturesque herders' village, flanked by high mountains and a river. On the western slope grow pine trees, while grasslands cover the slope to the east. The office of the Toba township government sits in the gully between them.     

A Visit To Qunpei Cering

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My Recent Visit to Lhasa Prison

If I had not been given the assignment to write about Lhasa Prison, I would never have gone to see it. This was where, in the olden times, human beings were skinned or had their intestines taken out for what the Dalai Lama says were Buddhist rituals.     

Visit to Rich Farmer's Families In Tibet

Recently, this reporter visited the family of farmer-turned taxi driver Baima Chagsi in Namkar Village, Donggar Township of Duilungdeqen County in the suburbs of Lhasa City. Hostess Baima Chagsi, now in her early 40's, welcomed us hospitably. The courtyard of her house is very large with a garage for four automobiles and with an enclosure for cattle. Outside the kitchen hangs a great deal of dried