Mother—My First Teacher

MY first teacher was my mother. It was she who taught me to read. It was she who planted in my heart a profound love of Chinese literature. She was also the one who set me on the road to independence. Today, I am teaching others—I am an associate professor of Chinese language and literature at the Central Institute for Finance and Banking, a member of the Chinese Poetry Society, a member of the     

An Affable But Rigorous Teacher in Vocal Music

WANG Pinsu, 75, is a professor at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Her parents named her Jingri which means "unstable day" because she was born during a time of tangled warfare among warlords. But a neighbor who was a middle school teacher felt that Wang looked very simple and mature among the children, so he gave Wang another name "Pinsu," because of her appearance and demeanor. Professor Wang makes rigorous demands on herself in the cause of music. She is also very rigorous with her     

畅销书

The book is the fourth in Wang Anyi＇s non-fiction series. It includes 58 of her essays, each of which records Wang＇s memory and understanding of an individual. The book focuses on renowned celebrities, including writer Ba Jin, film director Chen Kaige, painter Chert Danqing and actor Ge You, and ordinary people, including a postman and a handicraft worker. Each has impressed Wang, lor one reason or another. Wang, a Chinese professor with Fudan University, is Vice- Chairwoman of the Chinese Writers＇ Association. She is the first Chinese woman to be nominated for the prestigious Man Booker International Prize （2011）.     

以玻璃为媒,真诚记录与回馈生活

Artist's Bio Du Meng lives and works in Beijing.She was born in 1986,and she graduated in 2008,with a bachelor's degree in visual communications,from the School of Design,under the Central A cade my of Fine Arts.In 2013,she completed her master's degree at the School for American Crafts,under Rochester Institute of Technology.She was an artist in residence and Adjunct Professor at the university between 2013-2016.She received the"honorable mention"at the International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa,held in Japan in 2016.She was named the 2018"Saxe Emerging Artist"during the lecture presentation of the 48th Glass Art Society Conference,held in Italy.     

Marriage and Family Therapy

About the author: Chen Yiyun graduated from the Russian Language and Literature Departraent at Beijing University in 1964. She then enrolled at the Sociology Institute of the China Academy of Social Sciences in 1978. Upon graduation, she remained at the Institute as a research fellow. She later became editor-in-chief of the magazine Sociology Abroad. She translated and edited dozens of sociology books. In 1988, after she returned from the United States, she devoted herself to the research of sociology and marriage consultation. In 1993, Chen set up the Jinglun Family Science Center, a non-governmental organization which is a combination of scientific research and social practice. She organized scholars, social workers and volunteers from sectors of public health, education and legislation to conduct useful activities to promote democracy in the family, equality, health and civilization.     

林徽因:绚烂人间四月天(英文)

She was hailed as a "gifted female scholar of her time." She possessed the eyes of an architect and the soul of a poet. Throughout her life, she was poetic and rational.她被誉为“一代才女”。她拥有建筑师的眼睛,诗人的心灵。她的人生诗意而理性。Lin Huiyin was born in 1904, into a bureaucrat's intellectual family in Minhou County, Fujian Province. She displayed a remarkable interest in and understanding of literature and art when she was a young girl. When she was 16, her father, Lin     

Friend

Guan Weixing was born in 1940 in a small village in the Changbai Mountains of Northeast China. He graduated from the school attached to the Lu Xun Fine Arts Institute and in 1959 enrolled in the institute's Department of Oil Painting. In 1960. as an exception, he was admitted to an oil painting training class under a famous Romanian professor and completed his studies as a     

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     

Art Appreciation

Luo Zhongli. now a professor with the Oil Painting Department in the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts became famous in the Chinese painters' circle in 1980 with his enormous painting, Father. This painting also led the rise     

从藏家牧女到“飞天仙女”

Flying a helicopter over the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is extremely difficult.The first group of young Tibetans in a helicopter-pilot program obtained their commercial helicopter-pilot licenses after extensive training.Jianreyixi,a native of Damxung County,in Lhasa,capital of Southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region,was one of the recipients.She liked to make and fly paper planes on the prairie when she was a child.She never thought,though,she would grow up to become a pilot.     

A Decade-Long Partnership

THE Children's Choir of the China Central Philharmonic Society was founded in 1983 by Yang Hongnian, a leading conductor and a professor at China's Central Conservatory of Music. The 160 members of the Choir are from various mid-     

Hua Mei's Study of the Culture fo Human Clathing and Ornament

OPENING up Human Clothing and Ornament Culturology, a recently. published academic work, is like entering a comprehensive museum of the history of apparel. Readers will marvel at the extensive knowledge of clothing contained in each chapter of the thick volume, which is filled with numerous photos and illustrations. Its author is Hua Mei, a professor at the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts. Born in 1951 to an intellectual family,     

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     

Among Ethnic People:A Journalist Recalls

Cheng Jingming was a journalist for half a century. She participated in the War of Resistance Against Japan and China's War of Liberation. After the founding of New China, she     

刘瑞芳小传(英文)

Liu Ruifang, 38, is a teacher at Pingdu Normal School. As an artist especially good at drawing cats, she enjoys quite a bit of fame in the locality. She graduated from the Department of Fine Arts in Shandong Teachers' University and studied in the Central Academy of     

徐唯辛作品欣赏

Xu Weixin, arguably the leading realism painter in China, was born in Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, in 1958. A graduate of Xi＇an Academy of Fine Arts and the Zheijang Academy of Art, he is now a professor at the Xu Beihong School of Arts at Renmin University, Beijing, China.     

Art of Pottery

Lü Pinchang, a young professor of sculpture in the Central Academy of Fine Arts, tries to express traditional themes symbolically and abstractly. In     

The Rise of Gong Li

THE advance of Chinese history and the development of the film industry have brought out a new generation of movie stars. Among them Gong Li is the most charming and most well known in the world. Gong Li was born in 1963, the youngest of five children in a family of intellectuals. Both her parents teach at a university. She liked to sing and dance since childhood and early on displayed     

Dharmacarya Long Lian——A Chinese Bhiksuni with High Prestige and Respect

OUR plane flew through white clouds, taking us to Sichuan Province for a visit to Dharmacarya Long Lian, who is honored the No.1 bhiksuni in China. At 86, respected by domestic and overseas Buddhists, this eminent nun has had remarkable experiences. She is good at poetry and painting and of great attainments in Buddhism. She created the first bhiksuni Buddhist institute in China. After the plane landed in Chengdu, we took a taxi to the Tiexiang (Iron Statue) Monastery, a newly-renovated monastery beside lush green rice fields. A nun met us and led us into a shady courtyard in front of