Rabies in Tibet

Abstract

CORRESPONDENCE MEDICAL JOURNAL 1067 thought and planning. I suggest a system based on insurance clinics is a feasible and worthwhile goal-to improve general practice conditions. It would save the G.P.'s time and save the Government money-a combination, I feel, which makes for a fair chance of accomplishment.-I am, etc., J. DOWNES. Burnley, Lancs.

Missionary Primitivism and Chinese Modernity

“…The prominence of biography in Echoes missionary sources raises the question of the significance of individual agency and charisma in shaping historical encounters. 84 With regard to missionaries, the fame and influence of particular individuals has been notable, both during their lifetime and as reflected in later historical coverage.…”

“…Other Tibetans strolled around looking for a living, a lost contact, chatting with acquaintances or exchanging news. 84 The contrast here between Chinese and Tibetan is also the opposition of the modern and the primitive. The modernisation of the streets and the buildings of Lhasa is seen as something oppressive, sterile and homogenising, and the last vestige of 'true'…”

“…83 Minutes of the Meeting of the Keswick Convention Trustees, Friday, April 8th, 1938 (Keswick Convention, DS0 250/1/1/2, Cumbria Archives). 84 Anon, 'War or Mightiest Christian Revival', Cumberland Evening News (20 July 1938), p. 3. This emphasis needs to be seen in a wider context in which a missionary discourse of evangelical internationalism was coming under pressure as a result of conflict in Europe and the growth of nationalist movements abroad. 85 The emphasis on the number of nationalities in attendance at the Convention can be seen as an attempt to restore confidence in the internationalist identity of missionary evangelicalism.…”

“…Their numbers steadily diminish, and until the power of this dissolute and corrupting priesthood and system is broken there can be no hope of arresting their sure decay or preventing their ultimate extinction. 84 Tibetan Buddhism was shown to be a drain on Mongolia's manhood, both in terms of its appropriation of large numbers of men to the priesthood, and in undermining the vitality and courage that the Mongol empire represented at its height. In this way, Mongol decline is something that has endured to the present-day in historical scholarship, and has been the subject of recent debate.…”

“…Now in feudal style the tenants of the valley and the village gathered in hundreds to line the chalked route up to the huge doorway of the 'castle'. 84 Bull was impressed with the grandeur of the welcome that Topgyay received, and he used the image of a feudal lord returning to his castle in order to convey the scene he was witnessing. Each tribe, the tribal leaders were all independently selected, they gave their independent authority like they gave to Wallace, the tribal chieftains gave their independence to [Topgyay]; he ruled just by personality and performance… That was the only thing that held them togetherthey recognised him, he recognised them… There's this big division in Tibet, there are three provinces in Tibet, the one in the west is feudal, that is, it had an aristocracy and a monastic elite that ran the country.…”