Marriage and Spouse Selection in Present Shanghai

RECENTLY, 1,456 people in Shanghai were investigated for their marriages. The result was that the reason for marriage, age and the way of seeking partners has changed. The Reasons for Marriage According to the investigation, most people in Shanghai married first for reproduction purposes, so as to continue the family line and to further society. In     

身负重任的秘鲁女大使(英文)

Luzmila Zanabria first came to China in 1995, when she chaired the general session of the Peruvian Pacific Economic Cooperation Committee. Since then she has become passionately interested in China. So when Luzmila was assigned to be the Peruvian Ambassador to China, she was naturally delighted. As ambassador, Luzmila works around the clock. In the past years, she has visited many places in China, such as Xi'an, Guangzhou, Shanghai and Kunming. The     

身影(英文)

Tie Ning铁凝Tie Ning, on November 12, was elected the first woman president of the Chinese Writers Association (CWA). She succeeded the late Ba Jin, who was one of the nation's literary giants of the past century, Xinhua News Agency reported on November 13. Tie, 49, was elected during the seventh congress of the association, which was held in Beijing. She is the third president of the association. The first president was Mao Dun. The presidency had been vacant since Ba died in October in Shanghai, He was 100.     

Auntie Lan

TIANLIN 13 Village, where I live, sits in the southwest corner of Shanghai. It was built in the early 1980s. Whenever the people of the community have problems, they always turn to the woman in charge of the neighborhood committee for help. Most of the residents do not know her real name. They simply refer to her affectionately as their "Auntie Lan." I met Auntie Lan for the first time when I came to the neighborhood committee office to donate some clothes for the people of an area hit by an earthquake. The bright and tidy office, with its wall covered by all kinds of certificates of merit, impressed me deeply. Auntie Lan took the trouble to carefully count and record the donated money and clothes. Her neat penmanship on the notebooks was in harmony with the orderly office.     

Beijingers and Shanghainese

I was born and brought up in Shanghai.Later, to follow my husband, I moved toBeijing. From the start I was impressed bythe courteous way the residents of theformer imperial city addressed people andtheir pleasing speech patterns, with curlingtongue to add an "er" pronunciation to manyof the Chinese words - so different from theflatter speech of Shanghai. Over the years inBeijing, I learned how to mimic the accentand found that the people of the two citiesare interestingly different in many ways. I was accustomed to sharing taxis when Iarrived, for in Shanghai, if you are going inthe same direction, strangers double up forcheaper fares. In the capital, however, it ishard to find someone willing to get in ifsomeone is already inside. One weekend,     

Young Woman Tames Wild Animals

ON Shanghai's acrobatic stage, the audience held its breath while it watched a lion put its front paws on the shoulders of a dainty and beautiful young woman and licked her face with its red tongue. The girl was perfectly calm, even smiling. This legendary woman is Zhang Xiuhong, a lion-tamer in the Shanghai Acrobatic Troupe. I Fear the Lion When she was 11, Zhang Xiuhong joined the Shanghai Acrobatic Troupe Soon afterward, she was assigned to work as a lion-tamer. The first animal she tamed was a lion cub. From the     

上海“空嫂”八年路(英文)

Shanghai Airline Co (SAC) took a bold step on December 13, 1994 when it announced plans to recruit stewardesses from among Shanghai Textile System's married employees.More than 2,300 were qualified after the first round of selections in the textile system and, in the first 10 days of 1995, 1,698 workers were interviewed and 193 passed, among whom 64 went on to have physical examinations.     

Academic Bliss Couple Succeed in Long Marriage, Careers

XU Guangxian and Gao Xiaoxia live in the Langrunyuan residential area by the Weiming Lake on the grounds of Beijing University. When the Chinese Academy of Sciences had only 14 female academicians in 1980, Gao was one of them. Xu and Gao married in 1946 in Shanghai. Their 40 years together have produced ten admirable episodes. ·In 1940 both of them were admitted to the Chemistry Department of Shanghai Communications     

家政人的“红河情”

"You will become the first group of housekeepers from Honghe,of southwestern China's Yunnan Province,to work in East China's Shanghai.People in your hometown will hold a grand welcoming ceremony when you return in the future,"said Zhao Huimin,founder and president of Shanghai Xinbei Housekeeping Services Co.,Ltd.,during a job fair in Honghe County,in Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture.     

留学中国趣闻(英文)

Anne Sterling, a young Australian woman, is studying at a Chinese-language school in Shanghai. During the two years she has lived in the large city, she has had many amusing experiences. As she could not speak Chinese well when she first arrived in Shanghai, she made many funny mistakes. However, what impressed her most was her experience on the longdistance bus to Sichuan Province, in South     

印度妇女组织联合代表团访华

Invited by the All-China Women＇s Federation （ACWF）, a six-member delegation of Indian women, headed by Mrs. Gomathi Nair, President of the All India Women＇s Conference, visited Beijing and Shanghai from July 25-31, 2010. It was the first time that the ACWF had invited a non- governmental women＇s delegation from India to visit. During the visit, Meng Xiaosi, Vice-President and Member of the Secretariat of the All-China Women＇s Federation, met members of the delegation. In Beijing, the delegation visited Wuzhou Women＇s Hospital and the grass-roots women＇s federation at Shijia Hutong, in Dongcheng District. In Shanghai, the delegation visited the Employment Promotion Center in Baoshan District. The guests also attended a work-experience- exchange meeting with Baoshan District Women＇s Federation, and they visited a pear orchard, the Shanghai Lilan Fashion Accessories Manufacturing Co., Ltd, and the Expo 2010 Shanghai China.     

FROM THE CHINESE PRESS

Nie Li Admitted to the Standing Committee of NPC Nie Li, the first woman lieutenant general of China, was voted in by election as a member of the National People's Congress Standing Committee in March at the Second Session of the Eighth NPC. Nie Li was born in September, 1930, a native of Jiangjin in Sichuan Province. From 1955 to 1960 she specialized in the automatic control at Leningrad Precision Machinery and Optical Instrument College in the former Soviet Union. When she returned to China, she     

Through the Mist—I Recall a Visit to West Lake

IT has been many years since the last time I visited West Lake in Hangzhou but it is still fresh in my menlory. It was in late spring, a cloudy and drizzly day. I did not feel like going at first, but later went along as two veteran editors insisted upon going. It didn't take long to get to the lake. This was my first time to appreciate the landscape of the region south of the Yangtze River at leisure. The air was damp and chilly as we strolled along the bank. Mist and fog hovered over the lake, and it was hard to distinguish the water from the sky. At a kiosk on the     

More Than Just A Job

MY husband, Li Li, was among the first group of people to be laid off in China. It happened in 1987. The state-funded orchestra that he was working with had to reduce its size. Except for a few players of electronic instruments, all the members of the troupe were made redundant. Li Li, an oboe player, was one of them. Unemployment was still new to us at that time. Chinese people had     

妇女发展

＇Showing a Beautiful World＇ Exhibition Held To commemorate the 100th anniversary of International Women＇s Day （IWD）, the women＇s federation in Baoshan District, Shanghai, held the ＂Showing a Beautiful World＂ Exhibition to display works by Baoshan women. Although IWD was on March 8, the exhibit was held in Shanghai on March 1. In December 2009, the Baoshan Women＇s Federation announced its plan to collect original works by Baoshan women. The response was positive. Women contributed more than 120 calligraphies, paintings, photographs and embroideries, among other works. The items reflected the wisdom of the women, displayed Baoshan women＇s pursuit of beauty, and extended the women＇s best wishes to the World Expo 2010 Shanghai. The expo will open on May 1.     

The Story of Princess Wencheng A Folk Tale of the Tibetan Nationality

THE King of Tibet, Songtsan Gambo, was wise and capable. In order to make Tibet prosperous, he planned to marry Princess Wencheng of the Imperial Palace, who was both beautiful and kindhearted. He sent the resourceful Gawa to the Emperor to propose. In order to choose a satisfactory son-in-law among such a great number of suitors, the Emperor asked messengers to take part in a wisdom competition. He first asked the messengers to match the mares with their foals in a large herd. Of all the messengers, Gawa was the only one who passed this test. First he separated the mares from their foals and locked them into two paddocks. After half a day, he released the foals and herded them in with the mares. The hungry foals immediately ran to their mothers to suckle their milk. In this way it was easy to see who belonged to whom. After this test of wit the Emperor gave the messengers two more puzzles. The first one was to ask them to eat an entire sheep in one day, tan its hide, drink a jug of alcohol and walk bac     

维权直通车

Shanghai Strengthens Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency上海首度专门立法预防未成年人犯罪During the 39th Session of the Standing Committee of the 15th Municipal People's Congress(held on February 18),Shanghai adopted the Regulations on the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency in Shanghai.The regulations took effect on March I.The regulations,the first of their kind in Shanghai,were formulated based on recent years.     

Three Laid-off Women

THE problems of laid-off women have become a common concern in Shanghai. Laid-off women believe they should be able to find employment instead of returning to their kitchens. Women's organizations, which are called women's parents' home, are also helping laid-off women return to their jobs by every possible means. Chen Xiaoli was a worker at a knitting mill which employed several hundred workers in Shanghai. She is tall, healthy and open-minded. During the "cultural revolution," teaching work was stopped in     

Eliminating Blind Spots on Gender in Public Policy CAI YIPING

Just when Meng Meilian felt she couldn't go on she was lucky enough to become one of the first in her village to be granted a poverty-relief loan. Although the lack of laborers in Meng's family made the risk of return greater than for other applicants, it was clearly stipulated in the county's poverty relief policy that, all other things being equal, women in poverty should have priority.     

短讯(英文)

Becently a survey was conducted among 2,055 urban women from 18 to 40 years old in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu and Shenyang. According to them, independence and equality between men and women are the striking features of women in the new century. 63.2 percent were willing to compete with men in the workplace. In terms of the best family mode, 42.2 percent of them partially agree that a perfect woman needs to