‘Tibet Today’Photo Show in Hong Kong

Lhaba Phuntsog,Vice-President of the Tibet Association for Preservation and Development ot Tibetan Culture attending at the opening ceremony, Photo by Zhou AimingBriefing Tung Chee-hwa, former Hong Kong Chief Executive, with cultural protection in Tibet. Photo by Xu ShaoxiangHaving a picture taken with students of the Moinba and Lhoba ethnic groups from Tibet. Photo by Zhou AimingOpening ceremony held for the photo show and the Exhibition of China's 56 Ethnic Groups in early Janua…     

“New Tibet” Photo Show

China＇s Tibet and the Tibet Literature and Art Federation held the “New Tiber” Photo Prize Awards Ceremony and Photo Exhibition in the Tibet Museum from August 9-6,2005.Marking the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Tibet Autonomous Region,the exhibition showed Tibet＇s socio-economic progress over those four decades,     

Tibet＇s soclo-economic development in 2004

Located in the northern part of Tibet,Nagchu Pre-fecture covers an area of 0.42 million square km.As aState-class nature reserve,it is a major habitat of vari-ous wildlife,such as antelopes,argalis,black-neckedcranes and wild yaks,which are listed by the State asanimals subject to first-class protection.In recent years,the Forestry Bureau of Nagchu areabuilt many nature reserves of different levels andadopted effective measures for the protection of wildanimals.As a result,some species of endangered wild     

Recollections on Tibet＇s Fight Against British Invasion in Gyangze

A fter the peaceful liberation of Tibet in 1951,and in conformity with the tready signed on April 29,1954 ontrade and traffic between the two govermments,China revoked all the privileges India had enjoyed in Tibet that were passed on by Britain as the former colonial power,including removing the business offices in Gyangze and Yadong,with drawing armed troops in the two places,and transferring ownership of post offices,telegraph and telephone enterprises and 12 post stations run by India back to China.     

Has the Hong Kong Model Worked? Industrial Policy in Retrospect and Prospect

This article attempts to blend the insights of development economics and political economy in order to analyse industrial policy in Hong Kong. It describes the lack of industrial upgrading, the process of de-industrialization, and the over-reliance on the service sector, and examines the political economy of the functional industrial policy practised in Hong Kong, as well as its limitation. The author suggests that the political change from a colony to a special administrative region of China provides a context for Hong Kong State to undertake a more interventionist, industry-specific policy, the success of which will depend on a combination of two factors: state autonomy against the excessive influence of Beijing, and state capacity to guard against corruption and to enhance a mutually-beneficial regional co-operation in the South China region.     

‘Life in Happy Land’: using virtual space and doing motherhood in Hong Kong

This paper examines how a group of Hong Kong working mothers use the internet in performing and realizing their paid work and domestic role identities. The internet is a technology-enabled space and also what Michel de Certeau calls a ‘practiced place’, where its nature and functions are necessarily determined by the actions and practices of agents. Through participant observation and the analysis of a sample of chatroom and forum messages from a user-driven Hong Kong-based parenting website called Happy Land, I examine the relationship between this virtual space and its users. I find that the website has developed beyond its technology-mediated nature into a community of face-to-face friendships and social and emotional support. In effect, this virtual space plays a role in the social reproduction of the contemporary dual-earner family by enabling working mothers who use the website to perform roles in production and reproduction respectively.     

Travel in Tibet

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‘Hong Kong is my Home’: The 1940 Evacuation and Hong Kong-Britons

Who were the Hong Kong British, and where did they live? This question sat at the heart of anguished and angry debates prompted by the colonial government’s edict in June 1940 ordering the evacuation to Australia of all women and children of ‘pure European descent’. In this article, I focus on thematic strands in the debate on Hong Kong British identity, such as race, class, legal domicile, reputation and migration, to explore the complex character of such British communities outside the Dominions. This article aims to characterise what it meant to be British in the wider empire, and deepen our understanding about the place of such communities in the picture of colonial migration.     

‘A Haven for Tortured Souls’: Hong Kong in the Vietnam War

The Vietnam War exerted a profound economic and social effect on Hong Kong. Between 1965 and 1970, the British Crown Colony annually hosted about 200,000 US ground and naval personnel on holiday. This influx annually earned Hong Kong about US$300–400 million (in 2012 dollars) and employed thousands of residents working in the colony's service industries. Using English- and Chinese-language archival materials from Hong Kong, the United States, and the United Kingdom, the article examines how US servicemen and the businesses catering to them became contentious issues in local society. Servicemen excited widespread interest, but their misdeeds and their stomping grounds provoked intense anxiety. Hong Kong residents’ ensuing debates exercised the colony's emerging public sphere, from newspaper battles to outspoken unions and neighbourhood associations. In tandem with the more commonly cited Star Ferry Riots of 1966 and the Communist agitations of 1967, US R&R was an essential ingredient in the emergence of a distinctive Hong Kong identity and citizenry during this period. While residents’ objections failed to curb the GIs’ haunts or holidays, Vietnam tourism and its reverberating effects pressed new sectors of Hong Kong people to grasp and articulate their investment as citizens in the territory's future.     

Empowerment,transformation and the construction of ‘urban heritage’ in post-colonial Hong Kong

In recent years, there have been many political and economic debates in Hong Kong, and heritage conservation has been used as a political and economic weapon by some members of the community. Based on participant observation and in-depth interviews, this paper analyses how buildings of a small street built in the 1950s were constructed as ‘heritage’, and how a community heritage discourse was used by a group of local residents (Kiefang), university students and professionals to object to the urban renewal project led by the Hong Kong government. In this context, heritage was used to obtain political rights and to express anger against the increasing gap between the rich and poor of Hong Kong. Though the immediate objectives of this group were not achieved, the protest process empowered a group of local residents, and has marked the commencement of a politicalized heritage conservation movement in post-colonial Hong Kong.     

China＇s Tibet Magazine Awarded by ASLSCC

On 26^th Feb.2009,China＇s Tibet magazine and other Chinese media were invited to sit in on the felicitation ceremony organized by Association for Sri Lanka China Social ＆ Cultural Cooperation（ASLSCC） to celebrale 30^th Anniversary of Reform ＆ Opening Policy in China. These media were awarded by ASLSCC for their service and introducing reform and opening policy of China to Sri Lanka.     

15-Year Chronicle of China＇s Tibet

The year 2004 marks the 15^th birthday of our magazine. In that time,we have worked for the goal of showing our readers throughout the world the real Tibet. During the period, we have published 212 issues (Chinese, Tibetan and English editions), containing stories running to hundreds of thousands of words and thousands of photographs. They have told of the     

Geothermal Resources in Tibet

IN1975,theQinghai-TibetPlateauComprehensiveScien-tificInspectionTeamoftheChineseAcademvofSciencesstartedtosurveythegeothermalresourcesinsouthernTibet.Atestwellwithadepthof39meters(ascomParedtothedesigneddepthof300meters)atYangbajainfoundastrongcurrentofhotundergroundwater.Encouragedbythediscovery,theCentralGovemmentandthelocalgovernmentoftheTibetAutonomousRegionorganizeddeveloPmentofgeothermalresourcesintheareaandthedevel-opmentofageothermalpowergen-eratoLTenyearslaterin1985,whenChine…     

Diet Changes in Tibet

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An Exploration of Tourism as a Crucial Industry in Tibet＇s Economic Development

The whole process of economic developmentthroughout the world has shown that the developmentof every region must rely on correlated industries.Re-gional distribution and relative size of industries dif-fer according to diverse economic conditions,socialresources,and differing developing processes.Hence,all national governments formulate industrial devel-opment policies in accordance with their local condi-tions and give priority to some dominant industries soas to speed up the overall development of their eco-nomic society.     

Emperor Qianlong＇s Policy for Rule Over Tibet

In 1751,when Qing troops had quelled the rebelion staged by Zholmet Namozhale ,the Qing court promulgated the 13-Article Ordinance for the Governing of Tibet,Which established the system of rule over Tibet by the Dalai Lama and Qing High Commissioners.