The Tale of Lin Siniang

Chen Baoyue was a local official in Qingzhou during the early Qing Dynasty. One day, a beautiful young ghost entered his study. Her name was Lin Siniang and while she was alive she lived in Fujian. Her father had been framed 20 years ago and had been jailed in Qingzhou. When she hurried there to save her father, he     

Drizzle Families by the River

Chen Chuan works as a professional painter in northern China at the Shandong Provincial Art Gallery Born and raised in the south, he has a deep attachment to China's southern lakes. His works, depicting the lakes, have been exhibited and won awards both at home and abroad. Showing a special flavor of ink and wash, Chen applies water color blick nrintina with liaht color convevina emotion. He drew materials from     

Meet the Parents

During the past 10 years that I have lived in China, nay parents have visited me once. As my family hails from a rural village （in southern Finland）, which is often -- accidentally -- left off of maps, it is stressful enough to make the weekly groteW shopping ride to the closest city, to say nothing of flying thousands of kilometers to a metropolis of millions to see their firstborn. One can only imagine how overwhelming a city like Beijing must be for someone whose highlight of the day is to pick up the mail -- my mother always gets a little too excited over the prospect of catching a glimpse of a neighbor on the way to the mailbox.     

People Are Leaving The Three Gorges Area

With the Chinese Government deciding to build a reservoir at Ibc Three Gorges in the Changjiang River, which is believed to be one of the best sources of water power in the world, residents living in that area have been asked to move. The orderly migration of local residents is a great concern of the Central Government and is being well     

Three Laid-off Women

THE problems of laid-off women have become a common concern in Shanghai. Laid-off women believe they should be able to find employment instead of returning to their kitchens. Women's organizations, which are called women's parents' home, are also helping laid-off women return to their jobs by every possible means. Chen Xiaoli was a worker at a knitting mill which employed several hundred workers in Shanghai. She is tall, healthy and open-minded. During the "cultural revolution," teaching work was stopped in     

荒山里的“绿色梦”

Kejing, a town in Jiyuan, in Central China＇s Henan Province, is a mountainous area. Li Rui, a woman from the region, has dedicated her life to changing the once-barren mountain in Zaomiao, her home village （which is in the town＇s boundary）, into an oasis. During the past three decades, she and Zhu Wen, her husband, have entered into contracts to plant trees on nearly 1,000 mu （164 acres） of barren mountain land. Their persevering efforts have paid off： they have established, on the once-barren mountain, a large tree farm, and they have opened it as a resort -- to tourists.     

FROM THE CHINESE PRESS

To welcome the UN's Fourth World Conference on Women, to be held in Beijing this year, Ms. Chen Lihua, chairwoman of the board of the Hong Kong Fuhua International Group Ltd., and her two daughters donated a huge padauk screen carved with dragons, a reproduction of a Qing Dynasty screen In recent years, Ms. Chen has donated about 20 million yuan for activities on the mainland. Her deeds have received     

Flowers of Laneres Cloth

Flowers of layered cloth, also called appliqued flowers, are one example of Shaanxi Province's folk handicrafts. Village women use assorted bits of cloth to piece together and layer the flowers on a red or green background, according to patterns of paper-cuts, to form a fancy, colorful and distinctly local style. Recently, women in Yanchuan have been using appliqued flowers in modern hangings—a new adaptation of this traditional folk handicraft.     

On the Road to Breakthrough

LEUKEMIA, a cancer of the blood, causes a great number of deaths each year. After many years of study, researcher Chen Saijuan and her colleagues have proven the feasibility of using retinoic acid (one of the active molecules derived from vitamin A) to cure acute promyelocytic leukemia, successfully expounding the molecular mechanism of the new treatment of the disease. The variant chromosome translocation Chen discovered has since been placed in the record of international leukemia genetics. Chen Saijuan, 46, became a doctor at Shanghai Ruijin Hospital after graduating     

公益

“美丽中国爱心行”走进玉树 Led by Chen Xiaoxia, Secretary-General of the China Children and Teenagers＇ Foundation （CCTF）, a group from the foundation＇s ＂Love Travel in China＂ project began a two-day visit to Yushu Tibetan Prefecture, in northwestern China＇s Qinghai Province, on September 24, 2013. The prefecture was rocked by a 7.1-magnitude earthquake on April 14, 2010.     

A Creative Miao Painter

IF Xiangxi is a landscape painting, the ancient town of Fenghuang is the gem in the painting. Some overseas friends have praised its landscape and its people by calling it the "town of painting." Fenghuang has not only attracted many artists to come paint its scenery, but has also nurtured masters like Huang Yongyu and younger artists such as Chen Yanhong. Chen Yanhong graduated in 1992 from the Fine Art Department of the Central Institute for Nationalities. Half     

《中国轻喜剧》

＂Dear Scott, you are about to embark on the ride of your life, so, buckle up dude,＂ writes author Scott Kronick in the opening line of a letter his younger self. ＂When you have the chance to move to China in 1995, jump at this. It will be an inflection point in your life you will not forget.＂     

《80’后》

At the age of 11, Shen Xingchen is orphaned after her mother moves abroad with her lover and her father dies in a traffic accident. The girl goes to live with her rich uncle Chen Jianfeng. Chen eventually divorces and marries his mistress. Chen Mo, the son of Chen Jianfeng and his ex-wife, forms a close relationship with Shen. Five years later, bullies bother Chen Mo at school and Shen decides to get revenge;     

All about Chrisfmas

Even though I used to swaddle my poor rag doll, Ida, in old kitchen cloths and rename her ＂Jesus＂ every Christmas. my family was never religious and manyChristmas traditions were - and remain - unfamiliar to me. l have never been to a service o11 Christmas Day, and we have never read about the birth of Jesus before Christmas dinner. In my family, Christmas has always been terribly commercialized, and celebrated for the sole purpose of keeping the children happy and out of each other＇s hair for a couple of ＂blessed＂ days.     

Tea-Producer

CHEN Shuiyue is a tea producer in Shengzhou, Zhejiang Province, the biggest tea production and export base in China. One day last September, accompanied by two staff members from the local women's federation, I visited Chen Shuiyue's holne. Traveling along a bumpy road, we arrived at Yingguiyan Village, in Chongren County,     

中国奥运历史上的诸多第一(英文)

China's Women's Volleyball Team won a gold medal at the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984, which made it the first sports team from China to win Olympic gold. Chen Yueling was China's first race walker to win Olympic gold.Chen competed at the Barcelona Games in 1992. Ma Yanhong,born in Beijing on March 21,1964,was the first Chinese gymnast to win     

A PRESSING NEED —Experts Discuss Ethnic Women and Development

ETHNIC women have always been a concern of Women of China. The column, "Ethnic Women," has been developed to look at the lives, employment, education of ethnic women, and to introduce their local customs and practices to our readers. Since the establishment of New China in 1949, China's 55 ethnic groups have witnessed significant progress in political rights, social status, employment, education, marriage and family, maternity and child health care. However, ethnic regions situated in remote areas still lag behind developed regions in eastern China in terms of economic development, with 257 of China's 592 poverty-stricken counties inhabited by ethnic groups. Concerned with problems ethnic women face, the Editorial Department of Women of China recently organized a meeting of experts and scholars to discuss the present situation and future development for ethnic women.     

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     

Professional Womens Empo,.werment in China： The Power of Reflection

I＇m delighted to write a column in Women of China English Monthly. Here, 1＇11 share interesting findings, key insightsand real stories from the work I＇ve been doing with thousands of competent professional women in China -- and around Asia. Given that it＇s the start of the calendar year, I want to shave a powerful exercise -- on reflection, to set you up for success in the coming year, and beyond. To start, grab a journal, and answer the following questions： What do you think your colleagues would say about you？ What have been your key successes during the past year？ What are the best practices you used to achieve those successes＇？