Singer Han Hong

HAN Hong had a happy childhood in the beautiful Xigaze City, Tibet. From the children's chorus, the military art troupe, the Prize Winning Competition on TV, up to the institute of art, she has never stopped singing. The difference to other singers her age is that she not only wishes to be a singer but a composer. Not satisfied with just singing the songs of others, she began expressing her happiness and sadness by writing her own. Finally she finished her first collection Rays in Tibet, which is the first report card in her musical life and also     

Insurance Enjoyed During Child-Bearing Period

XIAO Li is a worker with a textile factory and has been married four years. At the end of last year she got pregnant and was excited by the news she would soon become a mother. But she was not sure what insurance she could enjoy during her child-bearing period. She went to ask the person who is in charge of the women's section of her trade     

Out of Misled Love

Astray "I couldn't understand it," she said in a sad and serious voice, "in what way do I not match her? I'm more beautiful, more selfrestrained and more tender and considerate than her...." Sitting at the psychological consultative center, Xi'er buried her head in her hands. Only at the center could she, not being all nerves, get her tangled feelings of anxiety, agony and antipathy off her chest. She is an unbending young woman and conscious of her image all the time. So, even shedding sad tears, she took a tissue from her purse to     

Memory Like A String of Pearls

WANG Mingzhen is a wellknown Chinese physicist. Recently the 91-year-old woman looked back over the profoundly affecting experiences of her life. A Series of Setbacks As soon as she graduated from Peking University in 1930, Wang Mingzhen received an offer of admission from the University of Michigan in the United States. Although the school offered her a four-year scholarship for her tuition, she was penniless and could not afford the steamer ticket. Unwilling to seek help from her friends and relatives, Wang sent a letter declining admission, using her mother's illness as an excuse. She could not know that this action would postpone     

My Grandma and I

GRANDMA is an old house—an old tree that I grew up with. Although my grandmother is a typical rural woman with bound feet, she has a man's name—Liu Hongqing. Women from her era usually did not have their own names, but she has one and it sounds so good, because her family was rich when she was born. Her father ran a large dyehouse and all her uncles had businesses in Qingdao or Yantai. But Liu Hongqing's lot in life would be different. At the age of 16, the casting of a horoscope dictated that she marry a local blacksmith, Ni Runtai. From that point on, she lived in     

Mother's Lahe

IT seems to have become a kind of law of nature that the aged do not easily get accustomed to new situations. But my mother didn't relate to this law. Mother had lived in a small town in the frontier region for more than half a century. In the early 1950s she moved to Beijing. We were always worried that she would not become accustomed to urban life. But we never expected that she would live a vivid and dramatic life of her own free will. We lived in a lane in Dongsi, which is not long. It has a western-eastern exposure, situated between two streets. In     

Cheng Fangyuan—a Singer Who is Bold in Making Ewploration

FROM the first moment I met Cheng Fangyuan, I was affected by her indescribable zeal, and her persistent pursuit of art. To be a singer is not her whole life, she treats scholarly honors and official rank as nothing. When she steps into the spotlight, she wears a calm smile, as brilliant as sunlight. That smile reveals her animation and her strong character to all. Cheng Fangyuan started her musical career with the traditional Chinese instrument, the erhu. During her childhood, she liked singing and dancing, and often participated in school activities. At the same time, she started to study the erhu. The melancholy and mild music appealed to her. In the single notes and chords of the erhu, Cheng found the beautiful world of music.     

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     

古丽米娜·麦麦提:用舞蹈展现新疆魅力

Gulimina was born in Dushanzi District,in Karamay,a city in Xinjiang,in 1986.Xinjiang is known as an“ocean of song and dance,”as many of the residents are good at singing and dancing.Gulimina displayed her talent in dancing as a child.When she was 6,she began learning to dance at a children’s arts center,where she realized dancing was not easy.     

Rural Women Fight for Their Right to Land

TONG Sufang never expected that she would lose her land ongetting married.Tong,27,was married in 1992 to a man inanother village.The couple moved to the city to find jobs,leavingtheir land to their parents.Earlier this year,when the village whereTong lived before her marriage distributed another round ofcontracted land,Tong was not listed as a candidate for a share ofthe village soil.The reason:Tong is married and does not live inthe village any more,although she has never moved hermembership to her husband’s village and is still legally a memberof the village of her childhood. The same thing happened to Hou Cunli,who moved to her     

The Bride

The work is full of joyous atmosphere The style of carving is simple The bride is dressed in a traditional wedding costume. a phoenix coronet on her head and a red silk cape on her shoulders. Carried into the groom's home in a dainty decorated sedan chair. she is led into the bedroom by her groom after the wedding ceremony     

FROM THE CHINESE PRESS

Xibe Woman Becomes Doctor Wu Xuehua is the first woman of the Xibe nationality in China to become a doctor. She now does research work at the Physics Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Born into an ordinary Xibe family in Yumin County in Xinjiang, Wu had not studied from a formal textbook until her third year of primary school. Relying on hard work and intelligence, she later enrolled in college where she obtained both a master's and doctorate degree at China Scientific and Technological University. She has accomplished four world-level research     

A Health Club for Women Opens in Beijing

THE Xinhongzhuang Beauty and Health Club located near the foreign embassy area in Beijing is the first of its kind in China to provide services to women only. Though this club is a novelty in China, clubs catering to women's concern for beauty and fitness are popular in many cities in the world. The founder of the club said that the purpose of opening is to remake the image of the women of Beijing. "It should be an entirely new and perfect image," she said. Miss Ye, 32, is a general manager of a real estate company. It was not easy for her     

《杜拉拉升职记》

It is not easy to find a job in the present society, let alone a good one with a promising future. Du Lala, a young woman in the job market, begins her career with a Global 500 company as a humble receptionist. She tackles pressure and frustration in a positive manner, knowing that the obstacles are just many of the hoops she must jump through.     

Green Maize (traditional fine brushwork)

Kong Zi was born in 1952 in Tangshan. Hebei Province. In 1985 she took a refresher course in the Department of Traditional Chinese Painting at the Zhejiang Fine Arts Academy. In 1989 she graduated from the Painting Department of the P.L.A. Arts Academy. Today she is a professional painter in her army unit.     

The Soul of the Forest

"The Soul of the Forest." a ceramic work exhibited at the "Century Women" Art Show. is a fine example of the work of Zhang Wenzhi from Guangdong Painting Studio: this particular piece reflects the artist's concern for environmental protection. The ceramic objects created by Zhang are not for pragmatic use; instead. they are a kind of modern art: sculpture in essence. but cer amic in flavor. Zhang Wenzhi obtained her master's degree at Guangzhou Fine Arts Academy in 1993 and her book. Arts of Modern Materials. Was published in June of that year. The next year. she joined the European Synthetic Arts Soci-ety. In 1996. she held ceramics exhibition in the gallery of Illinois State University. Her work, "The World of Wine." Was collected by the former Culture Ministry. In 1997. her work. "Chinese" was selected for the first National Modern Ceramics Exhibition in Shanghai and awarded the silver medal.     

两纲之窗(英文)

Providing Assistance in a Time of NeedIn the remote mountainous area of Ma'erkang County, which is in Southwest China's Sichuan Province, the story of Ruo Sijie, a 31-year-old Tibetan peasant, is spreading among the locals. During the past several months, this ordinary woman has suffered tremendous hardships, and she has received tremendous support from both the government and society. In October 2004, Ruo Sijie fell as she carried grain onto the roof of her home. She fractured her cervi…     

Opera Star Guo Lanying's Fame Withstands Time

IF there is one name that is familiar to Chinese aged 10 to 80 it is Guo Lanying. Recently a recital was held by CCTV in honor of her 60-year career. When Guo Lanying took the stage, she was met with a lengthy standing ovation. Her voice was choked with emotion. Behind her was a smiling photograph of her that was taken at the start of her opera career. Guo Lanying was born in 1930 into     

Liberia 2008:The Reality of War

This Dear Diary entry,in the year's last issue of Women of China,is written by Judy Cheung,a British woman of Chinese descent.Cheung,a business executive who lives and works in China,writes about her humanitarian experiences in Liberia,and she offers her insights into the effects of war.     

She Plants Hope——Giving back the fruits of hard-won knowledge

GENG Lihua,though an ordinaryyoung rural woman has been doingsomething that commandsadmiration-after returning fromNanjing where she worked as a housemaid,she did not start an enterprise or enterbusiness like most people in her position, butopened a school,sowing the seeds of hope in apoverty-stricken land and trying to change thebackward look of her native home.