Flood Overflows Jinshan Temple (Chinese Painting)

The Chinese painting Flood Ouerflows Jinshan Temple draws its subject from a beautiful and well-known legend,The white Snake.In the tale Jinshan was an islet in the Yangtze River of yesteryear.Inorder to aave her husband kept in a temple at the top of the isle.Bai Niangzi.incarnation of the whitesnake.bravely fought Monk Fahat.She borrowed the Yangtze River’s water to overcome Jinshan Templeand force Fahai to release her husband.     

送礼的讲究(英文)

Harry Steele, a young American man, has been living in Beijing for several months, since he was appointed by his company to cooperate with its Chinese counterpart on a project. The outgoing man likes to make friends wherever he goes, so he now has many Chinese friends. Zhang Jianguo, one of Steele's Chinese friends, invited him to his birthday party. Steele had never had such an experience.     

My Italian Friend—Where Are You?

Yu Xiuhui is a teacher with a vocational school in Dalian, During a visit to Beijing last summer, she befriended a young Italian woman. The brief encounter left Yu with a sweet memory,as well as a regret. So she came to us, hoping that Women of China could help her fulfill her wish—to convey the message of a young Chinese woman latent in her call...     

My Nepalese Friends

NEPAL and China are good neighbors. In the 1980s many Chinese technicians went to Nepal to help build roads and other projects. As an interpreter with a Chinese construction cooperative, I worked there from 1993 to 1994. During my stay in Nepal, I met many different Nepalese women who impressed me deeply. My landlady Sumiyala, was the first Nepalese woman to come into my life. She was over 40 years old, a healthy and good-humored housewife. Whenever Ⅰ had time, I liked to chat with her and gradually we became friends. I remember my landlady was busy in and out of her house all day long— cleaning, cooking and taking care of her grandchildren and her parents-in-laws.     

天那边(2007)(英文)

Xu Xiaomeng is in her final year of university.She enrolls,with her boyfriend Jiang Keke,in a volunteer teaching program that will take her to China's countryside. It is an important time for Xu,who is about to graduate with a degree in     

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Xin Yiwu is one of China＇s most popular young writers. Last year, her youth novel, So Young, was adapted to a film by Chinese actress and director Zhao Wei, and that film was hugely popular with Chinese moviegoers. The Promised Day, Xin＇s latest work, is a touching love story. For Feng Lan, a restaurant owner, marriage is like a door that she wants to open. But she doesn＇t find the key until she falls in love with Ding Xiaoye, a waiter in her restaurant.     

Rural Women Fight for Their Right to Land

TONG Sufang never expected that she would lose her land ongetting married.Tong,27,was married in 1992 to a man inanother village.The couple moved to the city to find jobs,leavingtheir land to their parents.Earlier this year,when the village whereTong lived before her marriage distributed another round ofcontracted land,Tong was not listed as a candidate for a share ofthe village soil.The reason:Tong is married and does not live inthe village any more,although she has never moved hermembership to her husband’s village and is still legally a memberof the village of her childhood. The same thing happened to Hou Cunli,who moved to her     

Memory Like A String of Pearls

WANG Mingzhen is a wellknown Chinese physicist. Recently the 91-year-old woman looked back over the profoundly affecting experiences of her life. A Series of Setbacks As soon as she graduated from Peking University in 1930, Wang Mingzhen received an offer of admission from the University of Michigan in the United States. Although the school offered her a four-year scholarship for her tuition, she was penniless and could not afford the steamer ticket. Unwilling to seek help from her friends and relatives, Wang sent a letter declining admission, using her mother's illness as an excuse. She could not know that this action would postpone     

Woman Sacrifices All for Family, Community

YUAN Shuguo, 82, is an amiable and kind woman. Despite many years of hardship and frustration, she has brought up and educated four children. Even her granddaughter is married. Many of Yuan's burdens have been lifted from her shoulders and she now lives a content life with her husband. Yet deep in her heart, there will always be one regret. This is her story, in her own words.     

Yang Liping and her Love Story

YANG Liping, known as the nation's flower, dances with her spirit and repays the land and people that have fostered her through her dance. With her superb performances she has joined the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, and has united people of different countries and nations. Just as the American petroleum king Armand Hammer says, "Yang's dance belongs to all mankind." Yang's husband, Tony Liu, is Taiwanese, who worked 12 years in the United States. He describes his wife's dancing "The Two Trees" as "entwining in life and death. No matter how you regard it, as an ancient theme of love, or the relationship between the two sides of the strait, Yang's language of dance tells you a story about the tradition of the Chinese nation;