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Chinese table tennis legend Deng Yaping was officially appointed president of Goso.cn, a news search engine launched by People＇s Daily in July, People＇s Daily Online reported on September 25.     

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“Dear children, we haven＇t seen one another for a while, but you are always on my mind,” Peng Liyuan, wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping, wrote in a letter to 25 students at the Red Ribbon Middle School, in Linfen, a city in North China＇s Shanxi Province.     

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Peng Liyuan. wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping. presents an award to Francoise Barre- Sinoussi, French scientist and co-discoverer of the AIDS virus, during the opening ceremony of the 2014 National Conference on HIV/AIDS. The event was held in Beijing on October 20, 2014.     

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中国首批歼击机女飞行员参观中国妇女儿童博物馆;中国女乳腺癌已成为对妇女健康威胁最大的疾病;河南兰考女副县长向郑州居民推销猪肉;温哥华冬奥会快讯;王潆卫冕成功跪谢恩师;     

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Pop Singer Named Ambassador of Water Cellar for Mothers Proiect
The ceremony to announce the Mother China Charity Music Festival, sponsored by China Women＇s Development Foundation （CWDF）, was held on November 9 at the China Women and Children＇s Museum. More than 200 guests, including actress Zhang Kaili and singers Stm Nan,     

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Xi Replies to Village Official＇s Letter Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China （CPC）, recently replied to Zhang Guangxiu, a college graduate-turned village official, who wrote a letter to Xi in January 2014. In July 2009, Zhang became an official in Lushang, a village in Yantai, in East China＇s Shandong Province. She has worked tirelessly to help villagers escape poverty, despite having been diagnosed with leukemia in September 2010.     

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White Paper Highlights China＇s Progress on Human Rights
China has effectively protected the rights of women and children by implementing special campaigns against human trafficking, indicates a white paper by the Information Office of the State Council. The paper was released on May 26. 2014.     

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中国女工登上《时代周刊》,“世界儿童与儿童世界”大型影展开幕,     

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越剧大师袁雪芬辞世;调查称中国城市单身男女比例为1：6：1;“折翅天使”尹书君散文山西获奖;台湾生育率持续走低;香港逾八成受访者认为：工作是女性独立的最佳方法;能否承受华裔“虎妈”式教育？     

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Special Services on Trains
During the 2014 Spring Festival travel season （from January 16 to February 24）, Qingdao passenger service branch of Jinan Railway Administration, in East China＇s Shandong Province, provided flee childdelivery service on trains traveling from Qingdao to seven cities. Parents who could not accompany their children, who were between 7-13 years old, could reserve the child-delivery service （five days in advance） and sign an agreement with the service branch. Conductors on the trains would take care of the children and present the children to the people who were designated to pick them up at the destination.     

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安徒生童话进入中国百年纪念展举行;全国妇联领导慰问中华女子学院教师;李娜宣布退役;联合国妇女署招募男性促性别平等;广东珠海发出全国首份反家暴“迁出令”     

What America's Leaders Read

The mass media are widely read by the leaders of American politicaland economic institutions and are regarded as valuable sourcesof information in their activities on national issues. Thisstudy draws comparisons with an earlier Quarterly article onwhat intellectuals read.     

How to Sociologically Read a Movie

Movies embody cultural values; those of class, gender, ethnicity, region, and nation come immediately to mind. They also reflect deeper civilizational assumptions such as Enlightenment values of moral redemption through human agency toward social progress that will be examined here by comparing the movies Avatar (2009) and District 9 (2009). The methodology is to identify backstage cultural assumptions that have to be assumed to make sense out of frontstage plot development. The idea of “species jumping” is introduced to illustrate the deteriorating idea that distinctly human agency is capable of producing a better social world and attaining secular moral redemption as the protagonists in both films reincarnate into alien species.     

Worth a Third Read: Six ANZJFT Readers Remember

If we do not sometimes look back over our shoulders to remind ourselves of the ANZJFT's past achievements, we may forget, and newcomers may never be stimulated to explore earlier contributions for themselves. For this reason, six subscribers were asked to write five hundred words in answer to the question ‘Over the time you have been reading the Journal, what article sticks in your memory the most?’ The one restriction that was placed upon their choice was that if they found themselves unable to choose between two articles, they were to discuss the older of the two, to help assure a wider spread.