A Brave Man,His Wife and A Noble Animal

APAIR of dedicated and hardworking law students when they met, Duan Qinghao and Zeng Jing went on to become a happy, model family but that idyll was destroyed when Duan Qinghao gave his life while protecting the majestic pantholops hodgsoni at the young age of 36. Leaving a young son and a promising career behind, his dedicated wife Zeng Jing had always shown great understanding of her husband's diligence in protecting the endangered species. In July, 1999, a conference on the Prevention and Control of International Environmental Crime was held in Geneva by the United Nations Environment Programme, International Criminal     

The Space Between my Grandparents Family Photos Take Grandchild on Emotional Journey into the Past

IN our family album, there is a picture of my grandfather, Fang Xiaoyue, and grandmother, Ma Junwan. The picture was taken in the 1920s when my grandparents were a newly married couple. It seemed to be in the afternoon in the photo, and in the background was an elegant garden, pale clouds in the sky, a rockery close by and a pavilion farther     

Sun Baiqiu Fights for the Human Cause

SUN Baiqiu liked to read well known literature from all over the world when she was a little girl. She sympathized with the good-hearted characters and hated the greedy and the evil. She imagined that she would become like a fairy godmother, holding a magic wand and helping the poor but kind people in distress. In 1963 she graduated from Haerbin     

Traditional Culture Still Influences Chinese Women

TRADITIONAL Chinese culture dates back to ancient times. But this culture is the outcome of a patriarchal agricultural society, and is most certainly stamped with the mark of feudalism. During a time when the state and the family had the same structure, women's problems most typically reflected the characters of the patriarchal clan agricultural society and the traditional culture. Traditional     

Telephones and Pagers are Changing Beijingers' Lives

WHEN refrigerators, color TV sets, high-quality clothes and furniture entered society, Beijingers began to shift their attention to improving their own communicative capabilities that a modem life demands. Having a telephone at home used to be the privilege of high officials. But today, when you visit a Beijinger's home or when you walk among the bustling crowds on the     

Yuanyuan Makes a Dream Come True

CHINA'S Eighth National Games were held in 1997, the lunar year of the Ox. There is a saying: "The Year of Horse and the Year of the Ox bring good harvests." So the Year of the Ox is traditionally been viewed as a good year, when the climate will be favorable for growing crops and a rich harvest awaits farmers. Perhaps for this reason, a cartoon     

Inspired Violinist Yu Lina

YU Lina is a famous Chinese violinist and a professor at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. In 1959, she became famous when she collaborated with classmates He Zhanhao and Chen Gang from the Conservatory on a violin concerto called "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" which is based on a well-known folk tale.~* The concerto combined Shaoxing opera and Western-style music.     

The Kirgiz People

Young Kirgiz women are talented singers and dancers. Performing to the accompaniment of a wind instrument called a kouxuan is a must when celebrating or entertaining guests.     

New Wedding Customs of the Li People

HISTORICALLY, Hainan Island has been the land of the Li people. It was only during the Western Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D.25), when the centralizedgovernment established two prefectures here caned Zhuya and Dan'er, that the Han people began to come southward to this remote island. So when anthropologists study the history and local customs of Hainan, the earliest information concerns the development of the Li nationality. There is a museum which provides clues to this history, the     

趣味动物俗语(英文)

汉语可谓丰富多彩,仅以动物俗语为例,生动的文字往往蕴涵着深刻的含义。The Monkey Rules the Mountain When There Is No TigerThe tiger, a ferocious and awe-inspiring animal, rules the mountain. Compared with it, the monkey has no special abilities or authority. However, when the tiger is absent, the monkey will jump out and show its power. This saying, which is somewhat derogatory, implies when there is a lack of talent, an incompetent person will seize the opportunity to become leader. Example: …     

FROM THE CHINESE PRESS

On February 14, 1995, China's population reached 1.2 billion when the staff at the Beijing Hospital for Gynecology and Obstetrics delivered a male infant. He is considered China's 1.2 billionth person. The baby is Zhao Xu, who weighed 3,700 grams at birth. His mother, Li Yinhua, 27, is a worker at the Beijing Coke Factory and his father, Zhao Yanqing, 29, a worker at the Beijing Capital Iron and Steel Company. Early that morning, Peng Peiyun, State Councillor and Minister in charge of the State Family Planning     

Friends From Different Countries Long for the FWCW

“WE regard the UN's decision to have China host the FWCW as a natural and logical choice," said Mr. Farid Rahman, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)'s area representative in China and Mongolia, when meeting our staff reporter.     

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.     

A Green Leaf on the Big Tree

"WITH a dyed darkish-blue apron" was myself portrait when I first entered literarycircles. My hometown Chumen in Yuhuan is asmall town by the sea, a land of fish and ricein the southern reaches of the ChangjiangRiver. The gong and drum for the Liberationsounded in my childhood. I was infatuated bybooks then; the wing of ideas often entered mydreams like beautiful butterflies.     

chool Board Protects Students' Rights and Interests

IN a test. Li Xiangmei, a sixth grade student at the Central Primary School of Majuqiao Township, Tongxian County in the suburbs of Beijing, didn't do well. She scored only 70-odd marks out of 100, and when she took the test home, her mother got so angry that she tore her textbooks to bits and wouldn't allow her any lunch as a punishment.     

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."     

Women at the Change of Life——Comparisons of Menopausal Symptoms of Women in Urban and Rural Areas

IT is very important to talk about women's life quality when they approach the age of menopause. The results of a research investigation on the "Mental and Health Condition of Rural/Urban Women at Menopause" and the "Common Mental and Health Problems of Women at Menopause and its Treatment in Nanjing," reveal that the incidence of     

Bronze Saddlery

A number of relics were unearthed when Chinese archaeologists discovered a group of graves in Liaoning Province in April, 1976. Dating back to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the tombs contained many bronze ornaments for saddles that featured such animals as frogs, snakes, tigers and rabbits.     

The Times are Changing Women's Employment

IN the mid- and late-1980s a debate was held in China concerning the issue of women's employment. It was a time when economic reform involved both the management and labor force of the country's state-rum enterprises. What the Chinese women in the workforce had experienced from the late 1980s to the early 1990s in many ways differed from our predictions about the debate. Perhaps we can make a closer analysis of the trend in Chinese women's employment by learning the differences. Both the employment rate and the population of Chinese women in urban and rural areas have steadily grown as the economy has developed. In 1982 the Chinese workforce was     

了不起的“半边天”

Chinese women have devoted themselves to the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics,and they have played an important role in"supporting half of the sky,"with no less courage or effort than men,says Chinese President Xi Jinping.Xi made the remarks when he joined national political advisors from the education,medical a and health sectors during a group meeting on March 6.