I know that picking on party rags is fish-in-a-barrel sport, but it’s Christmas and I’m full of good cheer. A wander over to the (English) People’s Daily Online today found this one floating on the surface: A new year approaching amid intense turmoil, which outlines the world financial crisis in terms that are pretty odd. [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Qinghai'
Tidings
December 25th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Beijing · Bush · Qinghai · Tianjin · propaganda · reporting
Plateau Stone Architecture
November 17th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Recently I visited Gangca Tibetan Primary School (elevation 3292 meters, 10, 800 feet) to view a local style of stone architecture called rDo sBis (in the local Tibetan dialect it is pronounced do we, as in “Do we know where we are?” - accent on the we. This is one of the three styles [...]
Tags: Qinghai · Tibet · architecture
Music Preservation
November 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
I’ve added The Plateau Music Project to my blogroll, and I’d encourage you to have a look and a listen. I know several of the people involved in this project, doing the difficult work of recording and archiving what is rapidly being lost.
The Tibetan Endangered Music Project was founded in order to preserve endangered songs [...]
A Few Photos From Qinghai
September 30th, 2008 · 2 Comments
I’ve just returned from an all-too-short trip to Qinghai where the weather was a little cooler than Tianjin and Beijing. There was snow on Laji Shan (3820 meters) and cold rain in the lower valleys on several days. On a trip into a nomadic region to visit a water project I climbed the slippery muddy [...]