Warm Breeze

Middle-aged female painter Wang Yingchun is a first-grade artist at the Research Instituteof Chinese Painting. With a solid foundation in: Chinese painting, oil painting andsculpture she began to experiment in the early 1980s with stone carving, murals, folkart, landscapes, flowers and birds, cubism, expressionism and abstractionism. Living ina time of social transformation, she felt pressed to create her own artistic style. Aftervisiting South America, she produced a batch of works which drew the essence of theBeast Group and used a new technique, without sketching the contours of flowers, sothat the paintings look wild, romantic and exuberant. This painting Warm Breeze displaysWang's style: While extensively studying the paintings of various schools, she makes hertraditional Chinese ink paintings tinted with modern color.     

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.     

人与自然的对话(英文)

Graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Zhang Na is now an art designer for Chinese Culture Pictorial. As a notable artist, who mainly draws flowers and plants, she is never bound by the weighty tradition of still-life painting. The unity of tradition with modern painting skills is realized in her unique style of drafting, which reflects her     

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     

艺术空间

In August 2006, Peters, who had once worked as an artist and a teacher in the US, traveled to China. Why？ She was searching for a magical coat, which she had seen in a book about textiles when she was a student in Paris. She eventually found the coat in Guizhou, and she quickly realized it was an item of the Miao ethnic groups＇ traditional clothing. Peters met many Miao people in Guizhou, and she was fascinated by the minority group＇s history, culture and beautifully made crafts, such as the batik-dyed clothes.     

Guan Guiling''''s Pottery Works

Guan Guiling was born in Jingdezhen, a town famous for its porcelain. Influenced by her parents, both of whom are pottery artists, she learned painting from childhood. Her drawing skills in pottery were already adept when she graduated from university. With creative artistic notions and skills, she is an artist with great potential. Over 20 years, she has won     

Yuxiang, a Blang Doctor

YUXIANG was bom the second of three sisters of a Blang family in Yunnan Province. When she was seven, she was sent to school in Blangshan Township of Menghai County. Though shabby, the school had several teachers with a strong sense of responsibility and rich experience in teaching. Under the influence of the teachers, Yuxiang soon became the top student. However, when she entered the fourth grade, her     

一个说评弹的女人(英文)

她走了。我感到有点荒诞——她既然是说评弹的,她既然就住在我们家的附近,我为什么从未听过她的评弹呢? If you met Miner's mother, you would not assume she was an artist of pingtan (a storytelling and ballad singing folk custom in Suzhou dialect). But if you were told that Ms. Yan, the woman in the white silk scarf, was an artist of pingtan, you would say that's right.     

A New Way of Life

I go to buy vegetables at Xiao Wu'sstore everyday,which opende not longago.Because of her good service andchoice of vegetables,more and morecustomers now shop at her store.At thebeginning she just sold vegetables,thenshe added bean curd,fish,eggs and the     

FROM THE CHINESE PRESS

Dr. Zhao Honored Dr. Zhao Xuefang is in charge of the Obstetrics/Gynecology Department of the Changzhi City People's Hospital in Shanxi Province. On April 23, 1994, she received from the hands of Qian Zhengying, Vice-Chairman of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the first Norman Bethune Medal, granted by the Ministry of Public Health and the Ministry of Labor and Personnel. Since Dr. Zhao began working in the medical field in 1963, she has continued to improve her techniques. After more than 30 years in medicine, she has treated thousands of patients without incident. Though Dr. Zhao has been diagnosed with cancer and has had two operations, she has continued to heal the wounded and rescue the dying. Her only wish is to relieve the pain of more patients as long as she can. —China Women's News     

ON THE COVER

SHEN Peiyi entered the Beijing Institute of Dancing in 1978. She graduated in 1986, but remained as a dancer with the Youth Song and Dance Ensemble of the institute. In 1988, she was named as national first class dancer because of her outstanding artistic achievement. At that time she was the youngest dancer to achieve this honor in the Chinese dancing field.     

A Visit to the Rehabilitation Center for Drug Addicts

TWENTY-four-year-old Mu Li has come to the rehabilitation center in Tianjin of her own free will. After a year on drugs, she now wants to quit. This is her second time being hospitalized. The first time, she stayed for 20 days in the center. Not long after she was discharged, however, she was on drugs again. So she came back to the center, begging to be hospitalized again. The Tianjin Rehabilitation Center for Drug Addicts (TRCDA) where Mu Li is being treated was established in 1992, although cases of drug abuse were then still rare in the city. However, with the increasing rate of drug abuse in coastal     

Challenger of the Computer Market

DESPITE having conceived, designed, planned and organised the '98 Chengdu Computer Festival, when it came time to make the opening address, Hu Xinling's hands and feet were icy cold. It was the first time she had spoken in front of so many people and she couldn't help wondering if she could go through with it. Even with two microphones her voice was still low, but she finally completed the task of hosting and spent the whole next day closeted at home with a good book.     

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     

Following Zhang Wenjin to the United States

In 1937,Zhang Ying studied at the Lu Xun Art Institute in Yan'an.After graduation she began working in the art world under Zhou Enlai's direction.In 1983, she followed her husband Zhang Wenjin to the United States as wife of the ambassador.During her two-year stay in the U.S., she came into close contact with many American women while working to promote mutual understanding and friendship between the people of the two countries.After her retirement in 1991,she sponsored the production of a 10-episode documentary TV program,"Zhou Enlai and the Arts."She also wrote a book about her experience in the United States,Called,Following Zhang Wenjin to the United States—Notes of an Ambassador's Wife.The following are extracts from the book.     

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     

No Ordinary Teacher

IN the language laboratory of the GraduateSchool of the Chinese Academy ofSciences, Yang Jia is teaching English to newdoctorate students with beautiful tones,gestures, and smiles. But there is one thingthe students don't realize about the active,amiable, patient and knowledgeable associateprofessor before them: she is blind. Yang was born in the Year of the Rabbit. At15, she was admitted to the EnglishDepartment. of Zhengzhou University. At thefarewell party, her classmates wished her "abright future!" she said: "I will be a bigscholar; I will speak English with a London     

The Woman Who“Manages Weather”

TENG Youlian, a Miao woman and the chief director of the Meteorological Bureau of Mayang County, Hunan, is one of the most reliable people in the area. The local people affectionately refer to Teng as "the woman who manages weather," because she and her meteorological bureau can forecast weather precisely, and predict rainstorms and floods in advance. Several times, they have been able to greatly reduce the losses for Mayang County caused by disastrous floods. Though only a junior high school graduate, and one who had never formally learned meteorology, Teng studied very hard to gain practical knowledge after she transferred to the meteorological bureau in 1969; gradually, she became familiar with the work. In 1981, she became a technician in weather forecasting, and was promoted to assistant engineer in 1988. She worked diligently and carefully; in 1989, she set a record     

The Fun of Growth

WHEN she was a little girl, Li Ju was nicknamed "Tomboy." She played every game that boys were interested in, but refused even to look at the games that usually attract girls. Perhaps Li Ju's kindergarten teacher thought ping pong was a game for boys rather than for girls, because when the kindergarten was visited by coaches searching for children with sport potential, Li Ju's teacher recommended the tomboy immediately. Little did she know that her recommendation would bring about one more woman world champion for China.     

Sun Jingxia Devotes Herself to Nursing Work

"I really didn't expect that at my advanced age, I would be awarded the highest honor in international nursing circles," said Mme. Sun Jingxia, 81, who had just returned from Beijing where she received the Nightingale Medal. Wearing a light yellow suit, with a collar bordered in red, Sun is inhigh spirits, reminding people of the beauty of the setting sun. It is clear that Sun Jingxia has deep feelings as she looks at the medal which shows a relief of Florence Nightingale's head. She spoke in her usual soft voice but with some excitement, "President Jiang