《杜拉拉升职记》

It is not easy to find a job in the present society, let alone a good one with a promising future. Du Lala, a young woman in the job market, begins her career with a Global 500 company as a humble receptionist. She tackles pressure and frustration in a positive manner, knowing that the obstacles are just many of the hoops she must jump through.     

Young Woman Tames Wild Animals

ON Shanghai's acrobatic stage, the audience held its breath while it watched a lion put its front paws on the shoulders of a dainty and beautiful young woman and licked her face with its red tongue. The girl was perfectly calm, even smiling. This legendary woman is Zhang Xiuhong, a lion-tamer in the Shanghai Acrobatic Troupe. I Fear the Lion When she was 11, Zhang Xiuhong joined the Shanghai Acrobatic Troupe Soon afterward, she was assigned to work as a lion-tamer. The first animal she tamed was a lion cub. From the     

Art Appreciation

Wang Erkeis a middle-aged woman with deep feelings and a strong character She has lived on the black land of the Great North Wilderness and gained abundant experience from her ups and downs She has tasted the happiness of marriage and as well the pains of divorce in the new life she has made for herself, she feels as fresh and vital as the spring. She tried to discover the type of painting that enabled her to express her inner feelings Though she lost the chance to study at an art academy. she studied and practiced ink and     

Chen Jie A Promising Director

CHEN Jie, who grew up in thenorthwest of China, is a young woman whocompleted her education in a constant stateof flux--Changsha, Urumqi, Beijing,Guangzhou, Brighton and London. At theage of twelve she joined the Army as partof an acting troupe and performed as a     

Disabled Woman Heads Beijing Fans Association

THE next time you go to a football match in Beijing, look around the edge of the field. You might see a young woman in a wheelchair cheering her favorite team. Wu Jinghong is more than a handicapped person, more than a woman football fan. She is the head of the Beijing Football Fans Association, a group more than 1,000 members strong. Wu alone started the association in 1988 and because she is a woman, encouraged other women fans to openly support their favorite teams.     

Out of Misled Love

Astray "I couldn't understand it," she said in a sad and serious voice, "in what way do I not match her? I'm more beautiful, more selfrestrained and more tender and considerate than her...." Sitting at the psychological consultative center, Xi'er buried her head in her hands. Only at the center could she, not being all nerves, get her tangled feelings of anxiety, agony and antipathy off her chest. She is an unbending young woman and conscious of her image all the time. So, even shedding sad tears, she took a tissue from her purse to     

A'shima and Her Lover Live Happily Ever Afterwards

One of China's most popular tourist attractions, the Stone Forest in Yunnan Province is said to be the home of A'shima, a beautiful young woman who was tragically changed into a stone statue after she refused to marry a local tyrant and tried to escape with her lover. This legend has helped lure in countless tourists from home and abroad, many of whom, like this foreign family, can't pass up the opportunity of posing for a picture in local costume.(Selected from the photo exhibition "China in Foreigners Eyes.")     

留学中国趣闻(英文)

Anne Sterling, a young Australian woman, is studying at a Chinese-language school in Shanghai. During the two years she has lived in the large city, she has had many amusing experiences. As she could not speak Chinese well when she first arrived in Shanghai, she made many funny mistakes. However, what impressed her most was her experience on the longdistance bus to Sichuan Province, in South     

The Woman Who“Manages Weather”

TENG Youlian, a Miao woman and the chief director of the Meteorological Bureau of Mayang County, Hunan, is one of the most reliable people in the area. The local people affectionately refer to Teng as "the woman who manages weather," because she and her meteorological bureau can forecast weather precisely, and predict rainstorms and floods in advance. Several times, they have been able to greatly reduce the losses for Mayang County caused by disastrous floods. Though only a junior high school graduate, and one who had never formally learned meteorology, Teng studied very hard to gain practical knowledge after she transferred to the meteorological bureau in 1969; gradually, she became familiar with the work. In 1981, she became a technician in weather forecasting, and was promoted to assistant engineer in 1988. She worked diligently and carefully; in 1989, she set a record     

Brows Short and Brows Long

QIAO is a beautician. Qiao is my friend. She has a pair of nimble hands. She tattoos eyebrows for her customers which look just as real as if they were beautiful and natural. Qiao is a pretty young woman. Her eyes are bright and intelligent, her lips as fresh as a cherry, her nose well-chiseled, and her skin as fair as snow. She is also gentle and kind. What's more, Qiao is a successful woman; she has helped set up three beauty     

She Plants Hope——Giving back the fruits of hard-won knowledge

GENG Lihua,though an ordinaryyoung rural woman has been doingsomething that commandsadmiration-after returning fromNanjing where she worked as a housemaid,she did not start an enterprise or enterbusiness like most people in her position, butopened a school,sowing the seeds of hope in apoverty-stricken land and trying to change thebackward look of her native home.     

The Story of Yun Cuixian

THERE once was a good-for-nothing named Liang Youcai. One day he took a fancy to a young maiden, but she spurned his advances. Not to be put off so easily, he went and wormed his way into the confidence of her mother, with flattery and honeyed words. As a result, the old woman insisted on marrying her daughter, whose name was Yun Cuixian, to him.     

Kazakh Women Rise Above the Plains

MANY people have become familiar with the Kazakh people by watching the sport of "girl chasing" performed on the vast grasslands. A handsome young Kazakh man and a beautiful Kazakh girl ride on horseback. The man speeds past while the woman chases him. If the woman catches up to the man, she can lash him lightly with the whip in her hand. The scene is set off by the brilliant blue sky and white clouds.     

Promises

AT dusk, I switched on my radio. What I heard was a special call-in program entitled "New Air of the City," on a local music channel; the two silver-tongued hosts were discussing the topic of promises. A young woman with a soft voice managed to get through first. She said that she had been in love for many years. She and her fiance often went to the banks of the Yangtze River in their spare time, lifting stones to look for small crabs, as tiny as fingernails. They liked to raise the crabs in a glass bowl. But one day, there were few stones by the river; they searched for a long time, but found nothing. An old man who was catching fish told them that it was difficult to find those crabs on the bank. Then he took several crabs out of his     

黄杨木雕卧仕女(英文)

Adopting the archetype of Yu Xuanji, a woman poet of Tang Dynasty(618—907), the beauty is carved-in-the-round and features a plaited square hairdo, crescent-like eyebrows and slightly closed eyes. Her posture is of one leaning against books while in bed, looking lost in thought. She wears a long skirt, drapes an embroidered cape over her shoulders, and has one leg curled up a little with one hand supporting her cheek; she seems comfortable and serene.     

Woman Mayor Devotes Herself to Her People

SHI Lijun used to be the Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee of Zibo in Shandong Province. When she stood before the 257 deputies to the People's Congress in Laiwu on January 12, 1993, she perceived the anticipation and skepticism in their eyes. Although the deputies voted her into office as the first woman mayor of this city because of her past achievement in her official career, they still wanted to know what she would say     

那完美的另一半

Jane Maday, a young American woman, has been enjoying studying Chinese at Beijing Language and Culture University since she arrived in Beijing five months ago. With the help of Wang Li, one of her Chinese friends, Maday has made rapid progress in her studies.     

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     

徐静蕾和她的电影《一个陌生女人的来信》(英文)

Plot 剧情简介 During the late winter of 1948, a man received a thick letter on his 41st birthday. In the letter, a dying woman shared a sentimental love story, but the man-the hero-knew nothing about it. The story was set 18 years earlier. A woman fell in love with a dissolute writer who lived next door. Despite their two romantic encounters, the writer soon began to ignore her. After learning she was pregnant, the woman decided to have, and keep, the baby. To raise the child, she turned to a life of prostitution. She endured all the hardships, and she never asked the man for his help. Eventually, the child died. Soon after, the woman became critically ill. Before her death, she wrote to the man to tell him the story.