Chinese Family Culture in the Ascendant

IN the mid 1980s, Chinese family culture started in Shanghai. Now, more than ten years later, it has spread to cities and the countryside all over China The rise of Chinese family culture cannot be separated from the improved economic development. Reform and opening to the outside world greatly increased the living standard of Chinese families. Many people are in pursuit of     

Grand Gathering of the Chinese Women

Hu Jintao, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau and vice president of China, offered congratulations to the Eighth Chinese Women's National Congress on behalf of the CPC Central Committee. The ECWNC convened at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on the aternoon of August 31, 1998.     

The History of the Chinese Marriage Law

IN this issue of Women of China we will introduce readers to the Marriage Law of the People's Republic of China. The Marriage Law of the People's Republic of China was adopted at the Third Session of the Fifth National People's Congress and promulgated on September 10, 1980. It     

Sketches of the Chinese Women's Soccer Team

ON 6 August 1996, the women's football team returned to Beijing from Atlanta with other Olympic athletes. Finally, after years of preparation, they could remove their athletic gear and don suits and dresses. For many years, the heavy schedule of training and competitions allowed the team few opportunities to wear skirts. Even if they did, some of the women dared not—their legs were full of scars. Some didn't care and said: "After the     

She is the Pride of the Chinese Nation

In the spring of 1958 when Princeton University awarded scientist Wu Jianxiong an honorary doctorate—the first ever to be given to a woman—the university president praised her as "the most honorable and most outstanding woman experimental physicist in the world."     

Introducing Chinese Wushu to the World

ZHAOBAO-STYLE shadow boxing was created by Wang Zongyue during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)and for seven generations it was passed only to the male offspring of the Wang clan, remaining mysterious to other people. It was not until the early twentieth century     

Duan Jingfang Shar Chinese Music with the Worls

PROFESSOR Yuan Jingfang has many titles: Dean of the Music Department, Central Conservatory of Music; Tutor of Doctors; Vice-president of China's Traditional Music Society; Member of the National Music Committee of China's Musicians Society; and Council Member of South China's Music. Yuan truly carried on national music traditions and has persisted in disseminating them. Yuan is from Yueyang, Hunan Province. Her love of music was not influenced by her family, unlike other performers of national instrumental music. Yuan's father is an engineer and her mother a nurse. Her desire to perform and study national music was fostered by the vigorous and grand scene she witnessed of performers beating waist drums to celebrate the founding of New China.     

Bright and Brave Women in the Chinese Military

CHINA has the largest number of women soldiers, and women with the highest military rank, of all the armies in the world. In 1955, when the Chinese army conferred titles for the first time, Li Zhen was given the rank of Major General. From 1988 to the present, 13 more outstanding women have become major generals and Nie Li was promoted to Lieutenant General. They now hold leading posts in higher     

An Intelligence Project Concerning the Future of the Chinese Nation

Asocial public welfare undertaking—"an intelligence project" of great practical significance and profound historical significance was formally unfolded to the public by the end of 1993. This is the glad tidings of 25 million people who live in the region of Iodine Deficiency Disease (IDD) as well as a great matter of concern for the 1.2 billion people of China.     

Chinese Women's Status on the Rise

CHINESE women's rights and interests were basically guaranteed between 1991-1995, according to an authoritative survey and statistics the All-China Women's Federation released at the end of 1996.     

A New Method—Traditional Chinese Medicine Relieves Toothache

BECAUSE I had a toothache, I followed my colleague to the home of Zhang Fengwu; he is the inventor of "Zhangshi Miracle Tooth-Protection Liquid." When I had toothaches, I used to go to the dentist. Recently, however, I have felt very weak, and was afraid that I couldn't bear more pain, so I went to see this inventor and learn about his work even     

Home of Female IntellectualsZ——Women's Committee of the Chinese Academy of sciences

THE All-China Women's Federation(ACWF) has established some 60.000 basic units in Party and government organizations above the county level throughout the country. The units include women's committees in 78 ministries and commissions of the State Council Program Director Ms. Zhang Xiaoyuan noted that the ACWF has extended its basic organizations from villages and neighborhoods to tens of millions of women workers and cadres nationwide since 1993. The effort has opened a new network serving urban professional women, and meets the new demands the reform and opening have placed on work for women. The results have thus proved highly beneficial.     

Moon Cakes, A Chinese Favorite

CHINA is a nation with many ethnic groups. Thus, there are many legends to explain the nation's many festivals. The largest and most striking of these festivals are the Spring Festival and Midautumn Festival. Anywhere Chinese people go, they will remember and celebrate these two festivals. The Mid-autumn Festival falls on the fifteenth day of the 8th lunar month. In this festival, Chinese people eat moon cakes, a baked food, with a flour crust around a dense filling. Coming in a great variety of flavors and styles, the moon cake carries a great deal of symbolic significance. The moon cake is round like the moon. "Round" is pronounced "yuan" in Chinese. This character is full of good meanings. When used in reference to a     

Women Claimed Right to participate in Government

In the early 1900s, when Western women were just starting to fight for their rights to participate in government and political affairs, China's women, who had just broken away from a feudal monarchy, also claimed that they wanted to participate in government and political affairs.In 1912, the Revolution of 1911, led by Sun Yat-sen-pioneer of China's democratic revolution-overthrew the last feudal monarchy and the bourgeois Republic of China was founded. The women following sun Yat-sen were to put into action their demand to participate in government and political affairs.     

Chinese Girl Blasts Onto the World Tennis Scene

IN May of 1998, at the Italian Open Tennis Championship, Chinese player Li Fang won in straight sets over Martina Hingis, the top seeded player in the world. With this win, Li re-entered the world top fifty. No Chinese tennis player had ever cracked the world top 100 before. Seventeen years earlier, during the summer of 1981, eight-year-old Li Fang had been admitted by the part-time sports training school of Xiangtan Steelworks of Hunan Province to play tennis. The facilities     

Chinese Women Laborers

FOR the last three years I have been working on two big projects about women around the world. One is Mothers of the World, and the other one is Working Women of the World. So I travel to different parts of the world to meet Women and photograph them. I knew from the start that I would be able to see China only very superficially, because there was no way I could spend more than two to three weeks there. I therefore     

Renqiu——A Petroleum Producing City in the Plain

RENQIU is the second to last stop on theBeijing-Kowloon Railway fom HongKong to Bening.The city is located in theHuabei Plain with an area of 1,034 squarekilometers and a population of about 720thousand.The famous Huabei Oilfield is justwithin the boundanes of Renqiu,withreserves of 930 million tons of oil and 1.6billion cubic meters of natural gas verifiedin 1985.     

Facing Reality, Meeting Challenges——An Interview on the Situation of Laid-Off Women Workers in Shangqiu

THE continued deepening of thereform of Chinese State-ownedenterprises has caused a large number oflaid-off workers.How to deal with them isan entirely new subject for the State,society and the work unit and it is aproblem that is not going to just disappear.Though there are a number of policies and     

Chinese Weddings

ACCORDING to the Marriage Law of the People's Republic of China, marital kinship is established and protected by law when a couple registers at tile local marriage registration office. The newly-weds usually hold a wedding feast in celebration at home or in a restaurant. The big red Chinese character, "Double Happiness," would be pasted on walls at the ceremonial hall to     

Common Themes——Equality,Development and Peace

Women are a great power to create human culture and to promote social development. So long as we ourselves, all our sisters and all people make an effort to understand this point, we can make more of a contribution to the advancement of mankind and the