The five-episode documentary series， '\"Year in Tibet，\" follows the calendar year of a small town in Gyantse in the southern part of the Tibetan Autonomous Region. Gyantse is a town mixing the ancient and the modern. It comprises tiny streets with traditional wooden houses but also boasts some modern commercial centers. Here cows and bikes as well as travelers in modern cars all vie for their positions along the old streets. The series recorded the lives of eight ordinary Tibetans. Among them are a restaurant owner， a village doctor， a rickshaw driver， a lama， a female official and a labor contractor.4 The documentary， first broadcast in BBC on March 2008， drew worldwide attention for its detailed description of ordinary Tibetans. It has been so far shown on TV in more than 4o countries and regions.