看中国官媒对北京(国际)藏学研讨会空洞无物的报道

英文中国日报对第五届北京(国际)藏学研讨会的报道真令人叫绝:不知谁是主办者,只有一位与会学者的名字,不知出席人数及学者背景,不知会议场景,不知研讨热点,不知舆论的反应。

现将译文与英文放置如下:



1991年以来的第五届北京(国际)藏学研讨会8月2日在北京召开,研讨内容包括西藏历史、文学、考古、宗教、藏医药和当代政治及可持续发展等。

据英文的《中国日报》报道,与会的美国俄亥俄州克利夫兰市凯斯西保留地大学(Case Western Reserve University)人类学与藏学教授梅尔文·高史坦(Melvyn Goldstein)在1日下午的小组讨论后说,研讨会本身就说明了藏学研究的发展。“研讨会把学者们聚在一起分享不同的观点,提供互相学习的机会,这样的研讨会有助于藏学研究的发展。”

主办者说今后研讨会会每四年召开一次。

Forum on Tibetan studies opens in Beijing Updated: 2012-08-03 

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/life/2012-08/03/content_15642445.htm

A high-profile international academic seminar on Tibetan studies that highlights the value of Tibetan culture and other social issues began in Beijing on Thursday, the event's organizers said.

The seminar, the fifth of its kind held since 1991, will cover topics related to history, literature, archaeology, religion, Tibetan medicine and pharmacology, as well as contemporary politics and sustainable development, according to the event schedule.

The conference is an example of how Tibetan studies have developed, Professor Melvyn Goldstein from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio said after Wednesday afternoon's panel discussion.

"Conferences like this have helped the development of Tibetan studies by bringing scholars together to share ideas and learn from each other," he said.

The seminar is expected to be held every four years in the future, according to the organizers.




维基百科提供的人类学与藏学教授梅尔文·高史坦(Melvyn Goldstein)资料

Melvyn C. Goldstein (* 8 February 1938 in New York) is a US-American anthropologist and Tibet scholar. His research focuses on Tibetan society, history and contemporary politics, population studies, polyandry, studies in cultural and development ecology, economic change and cross-cultural gerontology.

Goldstein is an American scholar whose research focuses on Tibet. His research has been described as "nuanced"[citation needed]; while he portrays pre-1950 Tibet as "de facto independent", he also portrays the old state as a feudal theocracy.Tibetan independence activist Jamyang Norbu denounced his seminal A History of Modern Tibet, 1913-1951: The Demise of the Lamaist State, which was awarded Honorable Mention for best monograph on China in 1989 by the Association for Asian Studies, for having "little account of honourable service, sacrifice or courage", and for documenting events in Tibetan history Norbu considers "shameful". He married the daughter of the famous Tibetan scholar-official-aristocrat, Surkhang Wangchen Gelek.Goldstein began writing more prolifically once access to Tibet was made available in the late 1979s. He received his B.A. and M.A. in history at University of Michigan (1959, 1960) and a 1968 doctorate in anthropology at the University of Washington. 1968-1990: Assistant professor (until 1971), and Associate (until 1977) professor, then professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, 1975-2002 chairman of the Department of Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University 1987 to present Director of the Center for Research on Tibet, Case Western Reserve University, and since 1991, John Reynolds Harkness Professor of Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University, Co-Director, Center for Research on Tibet, and professor of International Health, School of Medicine (secondary appointment). He was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (Section 51, Anthropology) in 2009.

Goldstein has conducted research in different parts of Tibet (mainly in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China) on a range of topics including nomadic pastoralism, the impact of reforms on rural Tibet, family planning and fertility, modern Tibetan history, and socio-economic change. He has also conducted research in India (with Tibetan refugees in Bylakuppe), in northwest Nepal (with a Tibetan border community in Limi), in western Mongolia (with a nomadic pastoral community in Khovd Province) and in inland China (with Han Chinese on modernization and the elderly).

His current projects include: an oral history of Tibet, Volume Three (1955-57) of his History of Modern Tibet series, and a longitudinal study of the impact of China's reform policies on rural Tibet (nomads and farmers). He has just completed an NSF study investigating modernization and changing patterns of intergenerational relations in rural Tibet began fieldwork in 2005.

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