徐静蕾和她的电影《一个陌生女人的来信》(英文)

Plot 剧情简介 During the late winter of 1948, a man received a thick letter on his 41st birthday. In the letter, a dying woman shared a sentimental love story, but the man-the hero-knew nothing about it. The story was set 18 years earlier. A woman fell in love with a dissolute writer who lived next door. Despite their two romantic encounters, the writer soon began to ignore her. After learning she was pregnant, the woman decided to have, and keep, the baby. To raise the child, she turned to a life of prostitution. She endured all the hardships, and she never asked the man for his help. Eventually, the child died. Soon after, the woman became critically ill. Before her death, she wrote to the man to tell him the story.     

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     

To Fly Freely

BEFORE meeting Zhou Shuying, I only knew that she was a 32-year-old rural woman from Weixian County, Hebei Province who was good at paper-cutting. Afterwards, I realized that she was also a woman of lofty thoughts who knows something about freedom. Zhou Shuying was born in Zhouzhangzhuang Village, a specialized paper-cutting village in Weixian County.     

Unyielding Skater Becomes a New Star at Asian Winter Games

HARBIN, February, 1996. Only one Chinese athlete, wearing the No. 4 helmet, made it to the finals of the women's short distant speed skating at the Third Asian Winter Games (TAWG). She was surrounded by one Japanese and four South Korean athletes, including some who had set world and Asian records. Almost no one believed that the Chinese woman could win. However, at least one person believed that she could—Yang Yang herself. In a short two minutes, she displayed her brilliance, overshadowing those world and Asian record holders. One day later, she joined her teammates in setting a new world record in the 3,000-meter relay race. Yang Yang emerged as a new star in the winter games.     

FROM THE CHINESE PRESS

Mme. Soong Ching Ling, the former honorable President of the State, was an outstanding woman who had great influence both at home and abroad. A statue of her recently was completed in her resident memorial hall in Shanghai. On October 25, 1994, people from all circles gathered for the unveiling ceremony. Shanghai was Mme. Soong's birthplace and one of the sites where she was engaged in her revolutionary activities. This statue     

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     

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     

Li Xiuying's Family Planning Center

PEOPLE in Yinan County refer to Li Xiuying, a doctor highly respected for her gynecological and obstetrics surgical skills, as "Magic Scalpel Li." Li Xiuying assumed the post as vice director of the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics in the People's Hospital in Yinan County at the young age of 27. She held the post for 12 years until 1988 when she was became director of the county's Family Planning Service Center. Li had never pursued the new position, and was unable to accept the unexpected transfer, preferring instead to continue working in the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics throughout her career.     

There's No End to Learning

ZHAO Yan, a top accounting student at the Correspondence College of People's University of China, Beijing Branch, was an employee of the Sino U.S. joint INTEL Computer company. In her spare time, she completed the curriculum for two subjects—economy and trade, and accounting. In addition, in her first secretarial speciality, she held three diplomas. This ambitious 25-year old woman had just left the INTEL Company, where she had worked four years. In her own words, she intended to start her own business. Zhao is one of 55,000 students who has graduated from CCPUC in the past 42 years. Since the college was set up in     

At the Age of 70

AS the old saying goes, "Never too old to learn." But to learn an MBA course at the age of 70 is rare. Wang Wenhua is such a woman. When she became a student of Master of Business Administration at the University of International Business and Economics, she caused a sensation in the media in Beijing. Wang, former director of Beijing Fork Lift Plant had been retired 15 years by then. "I want to be sure about what a market economy is, not live ignorantly," Wang said. Working on an industrial front, she     

Zhao Shuying Devotes Herself to Gerontology

LAST year, Yu Hua, an elderly woman who was suffering from five or six different illnesses, was hospitalized for almost three months at the Department of Gerontology in the Friendship Hospital. She said she had a good impression of the doctors and nurses who cared for her, especially Head Doctor Zhao Shuying. Dr. Zhao comes from a long line of doctors of traditional Chinese medicine, but studied Western medicine when she was a college student. Through years of research and practice, she has been able to successfully combine traditional     

一百三十针(英文)

Imet my first girlfriend when I was in my third year at college. Her name was Lan and she studied in the Foreign Language Department. We met through Old Sui, one of my roommates, who came from the same town as Lan. Blood brothers, Sui and I often drank wine together, had heart to hearts and slept together. After I met Lan, Our twosome became a threesome.     

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.     

两纲之窗(英文)

‘Love'Pancakes Sent to Soldiers万张煎饼寄深情献给亲人解放军On May 18,less than a week after the magnitude-8 earthquake hit Wenchuan County, Sichuan Province,Li Huaizhen,a woman who lives in Feixian County,Shandong Province,packed hundreds of boxes of pancakes and sent them to the soldiers     

Making a Life Choice At 15

I am 76 years old this year. I was one of the women cadres who participated in the War of Resistance Against Japan in 1937. I was born in a village located in Shenxian County, Hengshui Area, Hebei Province. Mine was a big family. Two of my uncles were teachers of an old-style private school. They enjoyed a decent social status and were respected by the local people. My father used to work in the county seat; later on, he also returned to his native village. Though he worked as a farmer, he too had had some schooling. At that time, Dr. Sun Yat-sen had established     

Kazakh Women Rise Above the Plains

MANY people have become familiar with the Kazakh people by watching the sport of "girl chasing" performed on the vast grasslands. A handsome young Kazakh man and a beautiful Kazakh girl ride on horseback. The man speeds past while the woman chases him. If the woman catches up to the man, she can lash him lightly with the whip in her hand. The scene is set off by the brilliant blue sky and white clouds.     

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.     

Luo Xiuhua and Her Family

MANY women set a goal for themselves of devoting themselves entirely to their husbands and children, but at the same time, they want to be successful in their work as well. This is certainly hard to realize. But Luo Xiuhua, a Tujia ethnic woman from Hunan Province, has turned this ideal into reality. Luo Xiuhua was born in Dayong County of Zhangjiajie City, Hunan Province. After graduating from a normal school in 1963, she taught in a village, and     

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.     

Memories of Home

COUPLES invited to participate in the '96 Beijing Golden Wedding Anniversary for the World's People's Tour stayed in the Shangri-La Hotel in western Beijing. The large contingent included Chen Dong and his wife Zhang Shujie. Shortly after arriving, one segment of a TV program featuring a Canadian woman recounting her experiences in China in the Chinese language aroused the attention of Zhang Shujie. That woman said she was born in Beijing at a time when her family lived at No.47 Waijiaobu Street. Zhang muttered to herself: "It's No.32 and not No.47." Zhang suddenly remembered