Where to Go,What to Do During Visit to China s Capital

If you are coming to,or are in,Beijing for the first time,you probably know about the things you must do:Visit the Forbidden City and Tian'anmen Square,enjoy a meal at the famous Quanjude Roast Duck Restaurant,and spend a day trekking on the Great Wall.In addition to those must-experience activities, Women of China offers readers its editors' picks,which are a few recommendations on where to eat and places to visit while in the city.     

Paths to Success

The female scientists have made remarkable academicachievements on a par with their male counterparts.Opening their lift scroll, each of them is a thick andrich book, tempting one to read, leading one to think.     

Traveling to Sanya

The seaside tourist city of Sanya, located on Hainan Island, attracts tourists from all around the world with its unique tropical scenery and local ethnic customs.     

Journey to Sanmenxia

Sanmenxia Gorge on the Yellow River is one of the cradles of the Chinese nation. With its vast number of natural and human landscapes, cultural relics and sites, it is a fitting place to learn about China's ancient civilization and modern miracles.     

Action to Help

DOCTOR Lu was distributing medicine to patients in the gynecology and obstetrics department of the Anshansi Township Hospiral in Huairou County, a suburb north of Beijing. First, she noted down the patient's name and condition, then handed her a bottle of Fujie Lotion and a douche bottle. The medicine and douche bottle were provided free.     

Love to Pipa

AN entirely new pipa solo was held at the International Artistic World inside the Beijing Crown Holiday Inn Hotel on the night of August 17, 1996. Though the young pipa player Wang     

Visit to Japan

BETWEEN November 8 to 17, 1995, the Chinese women's delegation, led by Ms. Kang Ling, member of the Secretariat of the All-China Women's Federation (ACWF), visited Gunma Prefecture, Japan, with short stays in Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka. The visit was at the invitation of the Gunma Prefectural Government and was the twelfth women's delegation to make the journey since the friendly contacts were established between the ACWF and Gunma Prefecture.     

From Play to Art—From Experience to Insight

This article investigates the role of play and playlike activities (imagination, art) in developing and using symbolic tools. We understand processes of development of symbolic tools as coordination between two types of relationships: the subject–object relationships and the subject–subject relationships. This coordination begins when a new, playlike frame of activity is introduced in the interaction. The imaginary frame of activity changes relationships between the participants. Furthermore, the imaginary activity frame may enter into interaction with the out-of-play activity frames (“reality” frames). Structures and relationships built within the imaginary frames are then used to shape the actual understanding of the world (subject–object relationship) as well as the interpersonal relationships and identities of the participants.

Introduction and further development of imaginary frames is a recursive process that takes place on different but related time scales: from microdevelopment through ontogenetic development to cultural development. Our project was designed to demonstrate some of the key moments that occur in the symbolic construction, in an “untangled” manner. To that effect, we designed a drama workshop to outline and illustrate processes that take place at the point of introduction of a new, imaginary frame and at the point when this imaginary frame begins to interact with the out-of-play frames. The aim of the workshop was to magnify each stage in construction of semiotic tools by “walking” professional researchers through a series of playlike activities.     

Prelude to Gold

FEMALE Chinese athletes Fu Mingxia and Wang Junxia recorded outstanding performances at 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games. Fu Mingxia won gold medals in both platform and springboard diving, and in so doing became the first double medal winner in Olympic diving since 1960. Wang Junxia, the holder of several world records in women's long distance events, struggled against the odds and captured gold in the 5,000-meter event,     

Close to Wurina

AT the Central University for Nationalities campus, I met a Mongolian teacher. Knowing I am a journalist in charge of the column "Ethnic Women," he opened-up. He told me that Mongolian women are traditionally good at singing and dancing, warm-hearted, outspoken and industrious. Pride can be read from his words, "At the Central University for Nationalities, there are a lot of female Mongolian teachers. Prof. Wurina, who teaches the history of foreign literature in the Chinese Department, is one of the most prominent. She is deputy to Haidian District People's Congress of Beijing.     

The Daur Give the Right to Education to Girls First

The 121, 357 members of the Daur nationality live mainly in the Daur Autonomous Banner of Morin Dawa (county level administrative division) in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and Qiqihar, in Heilongjiang Province. The majority of Daur people believe in Shamanism, with a small number following the beliefs of Lamaism.     

MSW Graduates’ Readiness to Respond to Intimate Partner Violence

The purpose of this study is to better understand the relationship among factors affecting social workers’ overall readiness to respond to intimate partner violence (IPV) in a sample of recent MSW graduates (N = 205). Findings suggest MSW IPV education and postgraduate IPV training are significantly associated with perceived preparedness and perceived knowledge but not actual knowledge of IPV. Personal experience with IPV was also significantly associated with perceived knowledge but not perceived preparedness. Furthermore, perceived knowledge appears to be positively associated with perceived preparedness. Findings can inform social work educators’ strategies to increase students’ perceived preparedness to respond to IPV. Specific IPV topics that MSW graduates might be particularly underprepared in are also discussed.     

Response to Ross’s Comment to Miccio-Fonseca and DeFeo

ABSTRACT

Response to Ross on his comments regarding my purported misunderstanding of Ross’s article and the DSM-V (Ross, 2015). Although Ross claims he offered no personal opinions of any kind in his commentary, undeniably there were two separate and independent comments in (Miccio-Fonseca (2015) and DeFeo (2015) addressing similar issues. Is this coincidental? This author maintains the stance expressed in the cited commentary.     

From Pupa to Butterfly

IN front of me is the Floating Stone, an autobiography-like novel written by a farmer writer. With a not very eye-catching cover and a somewhat baffling name, the book is not quite interesting to me. Care-freely, I took up the book and scanned it. Unexpectedly, I was attracted and finished reading the     

Efforts to Eliminate Illiteracy

FOLLOWING the Chinese women's emancipation movement, the Chinese women's illiteracy elimination drive has also gone through a history of 50 years. Although this task is a huge and arduous one, due to various historical, economic and ideological reasons, the rate of illiteracy amongst Chinese women has declined from 90 percent immediately after the founding of New China in 1949 to the present level of 23 percent. The rate of girls going to school has risen from 20 percent to 96.8 percent. Among     

Effort to Rebuild Happiness

ZHANG Huan felt her life broke apart when her husband died. It was not until two years later that she pulled herself together. She adopted a positive attitude towards her life and felt ready to establish a family again. Ninety percent of China's 267 million families are comparatively stable.     

Bringing Vitality to Sichuan

On April 3, 1992, the National People's Congress granted the plan to Build a grand power station at the Three Gorges area on the upper reaches of the Yangtse River, the biggest river in China. One of China's Biggest project in this century, the Three Gorges Project generated world attention since the first day of its operation.Four months later, Premier Li Peng granted the biggest supporting project to the Three Gorges Project. Aiming at exploring the rich underground deposits of natural gas and salt at Wanxian City, Sichuan Province. the Eastern Sichuan Natural Gas, Polyvinyl Chloride and Caustic Soda Project (hereafter referred tn as Eastern Sichuan Chemical Industry Project)involves an investment of 2.89 billion yuan.Xie Bangxiu, a woman with outstanding capability and Vice Mayor of Wanxian, acted as manager of this grand project.     

First Visit to Israel

WE arrived at Ben-Gurion Airport in Tel-Aviv in the evening of November 9, and were met and welcomed with smiles and bouquets by Aviva Brodstein, chairperson of the Tourism, Overseas and Absorption Department of Na'amat, Maya Zahavit, Chairperson of the Israeli Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Samira Khury, Chairperson of MDWI, Yaffa     

Farewell to Unhappy Marriage

ONE afternoon, we came to Xiangjie Village of Husa Township, Longchuan County in Dehong, Yunnan Province. The weaving road paved with slabstones led to the siheyuan (quadrangle) of each family, on the doors of which the Spring Festival couplets had been newly placed. Occasionally, fireworks cracked. It was time for the Achang to join the family. When we passed the doorway of     

First Call to Freedom

THE Hubei Normal College for Women, established in 1906, was the first public school in Hubei Province to enroll female students. The college offered a five-year Bachelor's Degree program. The college is located at Wuchang, one of three towns in the city of Wuhan, the provincial capital. Initially, the college had only one class of 50 students in each grade level, with a new class entering each year. Wang Shiyu, who had been appointed