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I Will Keep the Copy I just received the copy of Women of China on the Fourth World Conference on Women and the NGO Forum in Huairou, which I had mail-ordered in my last letter. I enjoy it very much as I was a participant at the forum and at the UN Conference. You have captured the spirit of global friendship and support in your pictures, and the coverage is excellent as well. It is indeed one of the magazines from the FWCW that I will keep. ANNE YEDOWITZ U.S.A.     

Holding Up the Sun of Life

LIKE the theme in other films she has directed Huang Shuqin's, "I Have A Father," is filled with humanitarianism.With a fresh and lively tone, the story reveals the scroll of relationships in a modern Chinese city. The film has been declared excellent by some government departments, indicating it has a positive social effect. "I Have A Father,"is a modem film of comprehension. A tragic story packaged as comedy,it reveals itself on two levels, It is at once a children's film and a film of ethics. The film tells of an orphan's     

Saturday Appointment

SATURDAY Appointment is a sentimental TV programme combining interviews, arts displays, and also serves as a match-maker for singles. The programme, as well as its host Ni Lin, is drawing more and more attention. Five to six citizens out of every ten polled will mention it as their favourite out of the huge number of exciting shows on television nowadays in Shanghai. With the help of a friend, I happened to meet Ni Lin on a Saturday, which we said jokingly was another Saturday appointment. Much of her elegant disposition     

Through the Mist—I Recall a Visit to West Lake

IT has been many years since the last time I visited West Lake in Hangzhou but it is still fresh in my menlory. It was in late spring, a cloudy and drizzly day. I did not feel like going at first, but later went along as two veteran editors insisted upon going. It didn't take long to get to the lake. This was my first time to appreciate the landscape of the region south of the Yangtze River at leisure. The air was damp and chilly as we strolled along the bank. Mist and fog hovered over the lake, and it was hard to distinguish the water from the sky. At a kiosk on the     

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     

编者寄语(英文)

A three-year-old boy left home for the first time, and when it got dark, he cried for his mother. However, as the days passed, he stopped missing his mother. One evening, he said to his grandfather, "Please, find a small net to cover the sun, so it cannot set. When the sun sets, I am frightened. I am afraid of the dark, and when it gets dark, I miss mum."     

更多的改变 BROOKSROBERTSON（theUnitedStates）罗秉瑞（美国）

In July 1964, my morn, a Francophile and formerr Paris resident when she worked in the U.S. State Department nearly 70 years ago, realized a decade long dream： she took her 10 year oldson to Europe. Our first and primary stop was, of course, Paris. After the usual tourist introductions -- the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame Cathedral, Les Champs Elysees, Montmartre -- we boarded a bus one overcast July morning and headed outside Paris to the Palace of Versailles. I remember 20 or so people, mostly American but other Europeans as well, traipsing through the vaunted （and uncrowded） ＂Chateau,＂ taking in the beauty of the building, its art, furniture, layout and history. H     

Shooting the Way

LAST November, after working as a picture editor for eight years for China's biggest news agency, I was assigned to Bonn as Xinhua's overseas photography correspondent. When I reported in at the German Federal News Agency, the woman officer in charge of foreign journalists' affairs said to me in surprise: "As far as I know, China has never sent a photojoumalist to Bonn before. Now here comes the first Chinese news photographer, and she's a woman! Tell me, what does it mean for you, as a woman, to be given such a working opportunity?"     

职业女性在中国：谈职业指导（三）EMILYROBLIN（Canada）骆睿莉（加拿大）

This is the final column in a three-part series on mentorship. In the previous two columns, we discussed how to get the most, as a mentee, from a partnership with a mentor, as well as the benefitsof mentoring others. The concepts shared are true everywhere, but in the fast-paced, highly dynamic environment in China, and in the work I do developing high-potential women in multinational organizations, understanding mentorship, and being able to network, learn and adapt to change is a necessity to thrive in the global economy.     

Dilemma：Give： Birfh Abroad or in China？

I have returned to my native country, Canada, as I prepare for the birth of my second child. Here we are, in a heated and cozy house equipped witha roaring fireplace; I stare through glass at trees with white garland, as they stand proud in their wintery beauty. Two years ago, our first child, a girt, was born in a Beijing women and children＇s hospital that had an affiliation with Canada. While it wasn＇t a purely local hospital, it wasn＇t a fully private one either. The price was moderate （but still high compared with the free healthcare in Canada）,