Days in Pursuit of Glory

IN pursuit of he strength of itswhole nation.China nas called fortalent since the founding of NewChina in 1949.During he GenevaConference in 1954,Chinese PremierZhon Enlai signed an agreement onbehalf of China with the United Stateswhich allowed Chinese scientists livingin the United States to return to China.Like a magnetic stone,the agreementattracted countless patriotic Chinesescientists to return to their homeland.By the end of 1956,this group hadgrown to more than 1,800,many of     

Art Appreciation

During his teens, Li Shaozhou painted what he saw simply because he took pleasure in it Afler gradualing from high school, Li went to work in a rural area. After staying there for two years, he joined the army, where he decided to learn painting in order to depict his experiences Ho gat the chance to study at the Aris Academy of the Chinese People's Liberation Army majoring in Chinese     

Dressing Splendidly

Professor Pan Shixun, of the Man nationality, was born in 1934 in. Jilin City. Jilin Province. As a young man. he learned painting through self-study. In 1950 he joined the army and worked in the Soldier's Cultural Books Publishing House as an illustrator and layout designer. In 1955 he enrolled in the Central Academy of Fine Arts. In 1960 he graduated from Wu Zuoren's Studio and was assigned to work in this academy. From 1984 to 1986 be did advanced study at the Paris National Academy of Fine Arts. He is a member of the Chinese Artists' Association and a council member of the Association for the     

加勒比人西餐厅

After Osmani Castillo met the Chinese woman who would become his girlfriend in Havana, the capital of Cuba, he decided to relocate to China. After having run several restaurants in Cuba, he moved to Tianjin, in 2009, to work as a restaurateur in the Italian district. After five years, Castillo moved to Beijing, where he worked as a chef at Casa Latina, and where he gained the confidence to open his own restaurant. With Caribeno, the first and so far only Cuban restaurant in China, he was determined to put Cuban cuisine on the map in China.     

Shang Yang's Paintings

Shang yang is a highly representative painter in the contemporary Chinese oil painting circle. In the past few decades, his painting style has changed several times; he abandoned his successful original style and familiar subjects when he turned from realism to abstraction. In the two pieces shown here, the people of the Loess Plateau are depicted as existing as an integral whole with nature, mutually inside and outside of it. Beholden to some techniques from traditional Chinese painting Shang's     

了不起的“半边天”

Chinese women have devoted themselves to the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics,and they have played an important role in"supporting half of the sky,"with no less courage or effort than men,says Chinese President Xi Jinping.Xi made the remarks when he joined national political advisors from the education,medical a and health sectors during a group meeting on March 6.     

Art Appreciation

These paintings display the high degree of skill required by Chinese painters. The paintings shown here demonstrate the painter's skill in using line and color. On the basis of tradition, he has created something new. The painter, Jin Hongiun, traveled to the tropical forests of southern China a number of times in recent years to     

Spotless, Jade-like Personality (traditional Chinese painting)

The interpretation of the traditional Chinese paintings done by Xie Lijun vividly expresses a woman's tolerance and silence. In traditional Chinese paintings black is the main component and the function of the color red is only to provide a striking contrast, so it is only used occasionally. On the contrary, in "Spotless. ,Jade-Like Personality." the color red is the main color in the painting. So different from its usual function, the red set against the quiet internal world passes from the expression of the figure's eyes. The red color adds more elegance and inlplicit meaning to the work.     

Shanghai's Only Male Kindergarten Teacher Breaks Tradition

KINDERGARTEN, the cradle of golden childhood for most children, used to be a place where women traditionally presided. But today in Shanghai, a young man named Pan Haohan has broken into this field. He works with Soong Ching Ling Kindergarten, run by the Chinese Welfare Association. Seven years ago, when he was about to graduate from a normal school in physical education, there was a free career counseling discussion offered in a dormitory. When asked what he wanted to do after graduation, Pan declared he would like to work in a kindergarten,     

Lotus Pond in August

Sun Weimin. born in 1946 in Helongjiang Province. graduated from the middle school attached to the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1967 He went on to attend the Deparment of the Oil Painting of the Central Academy of Fine Arts and graduated with a master's degree in 1987. Now he is the dean of the Department of the Oil Painting. associate professor and member of Chinese Artists' Association. His master works include     

“芝麻开花节节高”(英文)

One day, Mike went to visit Wang Jing, one of his Chinese friends, and he took a pot with an asparagus fern. When they opened the door, Wang's family was amused by the sight-the plant blocked Mike's face. Gasping for breath, he said,     

巾帼奋进新征程

March 8 marks International Women's Day each year.To commemorate the occasion this year,Chinese President Xi Jinping on March 6 extended festive greetings and best wishes to Chinese women,from all ethnic groups,and from all walks of life,when he participated in a joint group meeting during the fifth session of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference(CPPCC),the nation's top political advisory body.     

Suliman and Waliya (a Salar folk story)

SULIMAN was a young Salar hunter who possessed a magic bow and knife. At the age of 25, he was eager to find a good wife. One day, at the foot of a mountain, he saved a skylark from the mouth of a water snake. When the skylark song thanks to Suliman, he saw a pretty girl in the river     

Tiger Boy Learns Peking Opera

Twelve-year-old Yang Ming looks as strong and dignified as a young tiger, which happens to be the year of the Chinese zodiac that he was born under. In 1996, his mother sent little Yang Ming to the Jingshan Children's Palace to learn Peking Opera, hoping that training in the acrobatic fighting would strengthen his frail body. To everyone's     

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     

A Painter for Women

HUANG Shaohua paints traditionally. All of her subjects are females under the background of rural scenery. Her remarkable painting skills reflect an objective aesthetic stand.Her paintings combine traditional folk art with scholar-style modern Chinese painting. After graduating from the art school at Anhui Normal University in 1981, Huang Shaohua, a painter of the Anhui school, stayed there to teach. Zhou Sicong, a wellknown Chinese painter, became Huang's mentor in 1994. When Zhou died he left words evaluating Huang's work.     

Early Women's Newspapers and Magazines in China

WOMEN'S newspapers and magazines began to appear in China almost a century ago, during the Constitutional Reform and Modernization (1898), which is also referred as the Reform Movement of 1898. When the western bourgeois democratic ideology was introduced to China at the end of the 19th century, the Chinese bourgeoisie, influenced by the thought of equality of the sexes, initiated the women's movement. This movement was mainly characterized by promoting women's education, the abolition of foot-binding and the founding of publications for women.     

Deng Xiaoping's Three Marriages (Ⅱ)

IN February 1931, Deng Xiaoping returned to Shanghai after he had finished his work in Guangxi, where as a political commissar, within two years he organized the Seventh and Eighth Front Armies of the Chinese Workers-Peasants Red Army and set up     

送礼的讲究(英文)

Harry Steele, a young American man, has been living in Beijing for several months, since he was appointed by his company to cooperate with its Chinese counterpart on a project. The outgoing man likes to make friends wherever he goes, so he now has many Chinese friends. Zhang Jianguo, one of Steele's Chinese friends, invited him to his birthday party. Steele had never had such an experience.     

The Origin of "The East Is Red"

"THE east is red, the sun rises. China brought up Mao Zedong. He fights for the happiness of the people, he is a great liberator of the people." All Chinese know this song, but few know the origin of it. Composer Liu Zhi recalled, "I was a young actor in the Yangge Team under the Lu Xun Arts Institute of the Red Army 60 years ago. One folk performer in our troupe called Fang Xianzhang used to make a living by performing on both banks of the Yellow River. He knew a lot of Shanxi folk songs and once taught me a love song called Sesame Oil. It turned out to be the same tune with The East Is Red.