A Chef for 34 Years

FOREIGNERS who have been to Beijing are probably familiar with the Beijing International Hotel near the main railway station. It's the four-star hotel where I work as a chief cook. My job is to manage nine kitchens—both Chinese and Western. I have been a chef for 34 years. After graduated from school in 1964, I studied Chinese cuisine for three years. I believed that it was a job worth doing. In the past, people looked down on this occupation; they thought it was a low-class job because cooks were always serving other people. I, however, found the job very interesting. After all, I reasoned, everyone needs to eat. If we could make eating into a kind of art or a science, eating could become an act of culture. People engaged in the food industry treat the act of eating with a respect that most people cooking at home do not feel. But for those of us who work in prestigious hotels whose guests come from all over the world and have different customs and tastes, it is our job to put the Chinese cooking cultu     

我们家的“大飞机梦”

Editor's Note:Meng Jianxin is a senior technician with COMAC Shanghai Aircraft Manufacturing Co.,Ltd.(SAMC).He is deputy director of the C919 Business Department and deputy director of the General Assembly Workshop of SAMC.He has been in the business since 1980.Says Meng:MYou cannot do a technical job well without ingenuity and persistence.Once you choose to do the job,you should do your best."Meng's family,a recipient of the National Most Beautiful Family award,has made its contribution to China's cause of large passenger aircrafts manufacturing.     

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Dear Women of China,1 read on your website that villagers in East China's Jiangxi Province celebrated a harvest festival in September 2019.China has so many interesting festivals,and Chinese celebrate them with various activities.They are really interesting.Hathaway/India Dear Women of China,I think you have done a good job in introducing Chinese culture and women to the world.You have informative and in terest ing con tents in your magazine.I hope the layout design will be more vivid and creative in the future.     

Confidence Could Boost Women's Career Opportunities

THE profits seen in market competition have made many people dissatisfied with the idea of keeping the same job all their lives. Many people are finding better opportunities in enterprises large and small, new and old, run by the Party and the government. Nowadays, the want ads have become an importment part of the newspaper for many people looking for a better life. In contrast to the phenomenon that women     

Promoting Women's Political Representation

REALIZATION of the goals set in The Nairobi Forward-Looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women is not just the job of governments and political parties. Nongovernmental organizations, such as women's federations, can play a big role. The women's federation in Tianjin has set a good example in this respect. Tianjin, one of China's three     

河南省女大学生就业能力提升培训班举行

More than 350 students, from 11 universities in Zhengzhou （capital of Central China＇s Henan Province）, recently attended a training course on employment at Henan Institute of Education. The course was intended to help female university students, especially those who were about to graduate, find work and/or start a business. The event was hosted by Henan＇s Education Department and Henan Women＇s Federation. Before the course began, the experts and entrepreneurs, who were invited to participate, presented each female trainee with a flower or a bamboo branch as a gift. During the two-day （November 23-24, 2013） course, the experts and entrepreneurs shared their work experiences with the young women, and offered them advice on preparing their resumes, attending job interviews,     

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.     

Facing Unemployment (2)——Efforts of Women's Federations

ZHANG Xiuwen lost her job in March 1993 when the Tianjin Photographic Materials Chemical Factory closed due to the intense competition in the emerging market economy. Zhang, who had worked for more than 10 years, panicked when forced to enter the ranks of Tianjin's 260,000 laid-off workers. While Zhang continued to receive a living allowance from the factory, she was supporting a son in high school, and found it difficult to make ends meet. She resorted to selling clothing     

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Sexual Harassment, When No Means No hit home《性骚扰,女性不再沉默》令我深思What a great magazine! It is so good, well-written, and has great pictures. I liked the articles on sexual harassment. All the articles were interesting and I loved them! When I received your magazine, it made my day. I have been in and out of the hospital all summer. I have had a tough summer! Sexual Harassment, When No Means No hit home. I have been sexually harassed many times! From the time I was a teenager. On the job, I encountered the same thing. I kept quiet, because I felt no one would believe me. I never told anyone. My husband would say it was my fault. I hope I am not the only one out with this problem. I also love the pictures in your magazine. It gave me insight.Cindy White, USA     

Mural Paintings in A Liao Tomb

It was a custom in the Liao Dynasty to decorate tombs with murals. The paintings in Zhao Dejun's tomb, excavated in Beijing, provide a well-known example. During the Five Dynasties period, Zhao Dejun was a warlord in Youzhou, which became the southern capital of Nanjing in the Liao Dynasty (and even later, was renamed Beijing). The Zhaos grew to become a very powerful family in the area, as can be seen from the size of Zhao's tomb and the value of the funerary objects buried with him. His tomb     

Years of Trials and Hardships Give Way to Happiness

Imarried my wife in 1946. I was 19 years old then and my wife Shao Chunrong was 22. The second year after we got married the Kuomintang army was forcibly recruiting able-bodied men. I ran away from home to avoid being forced to join. For two years I wandered the country; Chunrong was left alone at home to make a living selling pancakes. In 1951 I got a job as a teacher, and soon was sent to the Linjiang Middle School in Jilin Province, far away from my home. Chunrong again waited in peace for me,     

Bronze Elephant

A rare find among Shang Dynasty bronzes in China, this bronze elephant was unearthed in a hillside in Liling County, Hunan. It was probably buried by slave owners as a sacrifice to the mountains and lakes. The bronze elephant served as a wine vessel. Wine was poured into the large opening at the elephant's back, and was served through its trunk. It is 22.8 cm tall, 26.5 cm long and weighs 2.8 kg. The body of the vessel was carved with animal motifs. The front of the trunk, for example, is carved into the shape of a phoenix with a hooked beak. A tiger is crouched on the comb of the phoenix, and a snake curls out of its beak. The base of the trunk is decorated with another snake, with its head near the mouth of the elephant. The entire trunk is decorated with scales.     

Pasta, Shanxi Style Hand-pulled Noodles Loved by Tourists and Residents Alike

I had my most delicious meal with noodles in a small village along the Yellow River. It was on a March day a decade ago, when I had just moved to Shanxi Province. I was out in the field as a reporter, and was exhausted and starving after traveling more than 50 kilometers on foot and by bus. A middle-aged man, whom I did not know, was standing in front of his dugout cave, the traditional dwelling of the Shanxi people." He called to me and invited me to have a meal in his home. Upon entering the cave, I was asked to sit on a kang, a brick bed, while the man's wife busied herself with cooking my meal. In no time a huge bowl of youpomian, noodles with Chinese prickly ash oil, was on the table in front of me. My nostrils were immediately filled with the strong and delicious smell of chili and prickly ash.     

大众的反馈

Here are some comments from average Chinese people about psychology,as an emerging science in China: Liu Fei,a 28-year-old woman who works in a foreign enterprise in Beijing:"When I was first employed by the company two years ago,I often felt depressed because I could not get my job done smoothly.I thought something     

Night College Author Spends Five Years Getting Diploma in Spare Time

AT the age of 32, I went back to school. I enrolled as a student in the Department of History at a night college attached to Beijing Normal University. My son was only two years old at the time. At first I went to night classes just to earn a college diploma. I already had 15 years' work experience, including four years of being a magazine editor. But if I wanted to keep my job as editor, I had to obtain a diploma. When I first sat down in the terraced, 300-seat classroom and touched my new textbooks, I was full of a craving for knowledge. I knew that my classmates     

"Pipa Fairy Maiden" Zhang Hongyan

WHEN Zhang Hongyan plays the completely traditional Chinese musical instrument, the pipa, she is called a "pipa fairy maiden" by her audiences, "the pipa queen with outstanding talent and appearance" by the Hong Kong press and "a national flower of the Women Philharmonic Orchestra" in Singapore. Having completed her master's degree program at the folk music department of the Central Conservatory of Music. Zhang is continuing there as a teacher. On the unforgettable night of June 9, 1992, Zhang Hongyan presented her first solo concerto concert at the Beijing Concert Hall, in cooperation with the celebrated Central Philharmonic Orchestra based in Beijing and its famous conductor Hu Yongyan. This concert made her the first folk musical instrument player to present a special concerto concert in cooperation with a Western style orchestra. It is the result of many years of effort. Zhang was born in Shengxian County, Zhejiang Province, famous as the home of Yue Opera. Her father is a musician with a Yue Opera     

Gilded Silver Crown with Double-dragon Pattern

Unearthed from a Liao tomb at Zhangjia Yingzi, Jianping County, Liaoning Province in 1956, this gilded silver crown with double-dragon pattern is 19 cm high and 20.9 cm in diameter. Its shape is suggestive of a mountain: higher in the middle and lower on both sides. On the front is a carving in the shape of a pearl surrounded by an S-shape pattern symbolizing good fortune. There is a lively dragon on either side. The complete design is based on the old theme "two dragons play with a pearl." Traditions of the Qidan, an ancient nationality of northern China, are evident in the design of the crown. It is recorded in     

Saving The Baiji

AT a conference of the World Whaling Commission in Cambridge, England, in 1981, a special video tape caught the attention of experts at the meeting. It was a tape about the artificial raising of Baiji ill China, brought by Chen Peixun, head of the Baiji Coordinative Group and a research fellow of the Institute of Hydrobiology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences. On the screen was a large mammal with a long, pointed mouth, swimming in the water with its belly up one moment and down the next. It looked like a dolphin, but     

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     

Hairdressing Makes Her Happy

"I can't stand this any longer," said Yin Xiwen who was determined to do something of her own. One day in 1988, 17-year-old Yin resigned from her job and bid farewell to the stable work and welfare that she had enjoyed in a stateowned enterprise. Her bold action drew attention and caused many comments. "She's like a new-bom calf making little of a tiger. She hasn't even left a route of retreat for herself," people remarked. However, Yin Xiwen said, "I don't want to have a route of retreat. Only by doing this can I find a path of my own." At a corner in Dahongmen, in the southern suburb of Beijing, is the small Mingwu Hairdressing salon. The owner of this small business is Yin Xiwen. Several years ago I happened upon the