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Special> 50th Anniversary of Beijing Review> Celebrity Greetings
UPDATED: March 24, 2008  
Congratulations on the 40th Anniversary of Beijing Review
 
 
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19, 01, 1998

Dear Sir:

I am happy to note that the Beijing Review is planning to commemorate its fortieth anniversary in an effective manner.

I have been reading the Peking Review and its successor the Beijing Review since the end of the sixties, when I was posted as Third Secretary in the Commission of India in Hong Kong. Prior to that, my acquaintance with the magazine was in a very peripheral manner. Since then I have been keeping in touch with the magazine somewhat regularly up to 1975, then irregular up to 1988. Since 1988, I resumed being in touch with the magazine on a more regular basis.

The Beijing Review has generally been viewed as the best repository of the official position of the People's Republic of China in political and economic issues in the English language. To persons who do not have regular access to Xinhua News Agency coverage on China, a major regular source of such information is the Beijing Review. During the late fifties and early sixties, the magazine also contained some very interesting insights into the social and literary developments especially in general terms for the foreigner. Latterly, the character of the magazine had changed somewhat. Since the eighties, the character and format of the magazine has once again been changed, modernized and made much more crisp and timely. The magazine is very helpful as a reference for foreign diplomats interested in keeping abreast of developments in China.

In earlier years, the analyses of ideological issues were very impressive though it was recognized that these were translations of items, which had appeared in the official organs of the Government of the PRC. In recent issues, analyses of economic and social issues have been much more interesting in that they are terse, serious and well argued. I have personally also found the annual index of the Review very useful as a historical reference.

I would like to wish the editorial staff of the Beijing Review success in its endeavors to modernize the magazine and to make it more reflective of the instincts, attitudes, and aspirations of the Chinese people both in the official as well as the non-official sectors. Prestigious magazines like the Beijing Review are, increasingly, becoming the forum for debate on important issues like the environment, effect of technology on the human condition and on issues related to the development of Chinese literary, artistic and cultural expression. The impact of the Beijing Review on development of international opinion and on the image of China in the world at large, cannot be under-estimated. In building up India-China friendship, the Beijing Review can play a very important role.

I wish the Beijing Review all success in its future endeavors.

V K Nambiar

Ambassador of India

(This article appears on page 6, VOL.41 NO.9, MARCH 2-8, 1998)



 
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