The Joy of Jiaozi Once the Stuff of Holidays, Stuffed Dumplings Now Everyday Fare

IN the northern part of China, people often say: "Dumplings are the best to eat." Indeed, because of its cold, arid climate, people spend the winters eating vegetables stored away in the fall. Jiaozi——Chinese dumplings——have become a specialty in the north. Dumplings are made by wrapping a dough around meat and vegetables. In the past, people ate dumplings only on festive occasions; now they have become common fare in the home, and several brands of frozen dumplings are available in stores. However, it is still the custom in     

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China is the largest country in the world,in terms of people, with about one-fifth—1.32 billion people—of the world's population 90.9% of China's population aged 15 and over can read and write.     

A Dai-Style Restaurant in Beijing

XISHUANGBANNA, in southern China's Yunnan Province, is a region where several minority ethnicities—the Dai in particular—live in compact communities. In fact, when people hear the name Xishuangbanna, they usually associate it with the Dai ethnicity. The Xishuangbanna Restaurant, located near the Forbidden City in Beijing, is now one of the best of the more     

Beijing Society of Women's Theory

THE Beijing Society of Women's Theory was founded in 1985 during an unusual time in China. Economic reform was happening gradually throughout China. The new economic order broke the one-sided pattern of a planned economy which had existed in the country for many years. The trend of this economic reform affected everybody—especially women—to varying degrees. It forced enterprises to break the mindset of maintaining a large pot of rice in favor of economic efficiency, so that the     

China's Women Doctors Continue to Achieve

The gray building complex, hidden among the trees east of Wangfujing Street—the busiest shopping area in Beijing—is the place where China's two most famous and highest level medical research and teaching institutions are located. Established in 1917, the Beijing Union Medical College is the only key college of the eight-year system in the country. Nearly all of its graduates hold a doctorate degree. The Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences was established in 1956 and is the only comprehensive medical scientific research center in China, which merges scientific research, medical treatment and education into an organic whole.     

Mongella Invites Scientist to UN Headquarters

ON May 20, 1994, in the company of Huang Qizao, Vice-President of the All-China Women's Federation, Mme. Gertrude Mongella, announced in the coastal city of Dalian in Liaoning Province: "As Secretary-General of the Fourth World Conference on Women, I recommend that Ms. Wang Lianxiang attend the conference, and invite her to the UN headquarters in New York City to celebrate the 50th birthday of both of us." Wang, an inventor for the Chinese navy, won the top honor at the 84th International Fair in Paris—the Scientific Research Ministry Prize of the Republic of France—with her Haiwang brand, wholly airtight, colloid storage battery. Since 1990 Wang has exhibited her inventions five times at international fairs and has won gold medals each year.     

BLACK AND WHITE

IN 1958,the renowned dancing master B.Gusev,directed thefirst complete balletic drama in China——Swan Lake.It symbolizedthe birth of the art of ballet in a country with over 5,000 yearsworth of civilization.By succeeding in the traditions of Westernclassical ballet,China has made great straits on the nationalizationof this art form.In 1986,he China Central Ballet Troupe(CCBT)     

One Woman's Bitter Medicine

ANGUO City in Hebei Province is a small one—only a few years ago, it was still a township—but it is well-known in Chinese medical circles as one of the four largest distribution centers of Chinese herbal medicine. Locals proudly call their hometown the "Medicine Capital." Anguo's streets are lined with medicine shops. In addition, the city is also home to a large medicine wholesale market, where hundreds of kinds of Chinese herbal medicine from all over the country Can be found. Both in the wholesale depot and in the small shops, it is striking that most buyers are men while most of the sellers are women. Song Mulan, the director of the municipal women's federation, is     

An Epic of Anti-Fascist Fighters——The 60th anniversary of the International Brigade

DEFEND MADRID, an antifascist song composed in 1936 toraise Chinese awareness against fascists invading then Republic of Spain and who invaded China one year later, played once again in the Chinese Revolutionary Museum in Beijing on 9 October 1996. The song brought participants of the 60th anniversary of the International Brigade back to the days when peaceloving people the world over, despite their differences in nationalities and beliefs, gathered in Spain to fight against the common foe of mankind—fascism. Mr. Cheng Siyuan, Vice President of the Chinese National People's Congress, Mr. Huang Hua, President of China     

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1 Extremes along the Silk Road:Adventures off the World's Oldest Superhighway《极限丝绸之路》Author:Nick Middleton Publisher:John Murray Groundbreaking traveler and TV personality Nick Middleton follows in the footsteps of Alexander the Great and Marco Polo across one of the least hospitable regions on Earth—a succession of hostile deserts and towering mountain ranges,a harsh terrain of howling winds,searing heat and blistering cold—to encounter those who eke out existences there today.Personal experiences of almost ridiculous endurance—sleeping on steaming rocks in the middle of a sub-zero desert ard risking the anthrax spores of Vozrozhdeniye Island's post-Stalinist wasteland—is woven together with the bigger picture of our planet's new"lost worlds."     

Woman Sends Regards to Family and the Loess Plateau

WITH a population of ouer 8 million, the Hui nationality liue ouer the largest area of any other minority nationality in China. The Hui reside in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Gansu, Shaanxi, Guizhou, Henan, Qinghai, Yunnan, Hebei, and Shandong provinces, the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, and the Beijing and Tianjin municipalities.The origin of the Hui people can be traced back to the end of the seventh century, when Arabs and Persians often came to do trade in China along the ancient Silk Road. Some stayed on and started families. Their children have been traced to Guangzhou and Quanzhou. At the beginning of the 13th century, more Arabs, Persian and people from Central Asia came to China, where they married into the Han, the Uygur and the Mongolian nationalities. Gradually a new nationality—the Hui—was formed.With the founding of New China in 1949, the NingxJa Hui Autonomous Region was established. The industrial and agricultural output in the region in 1990 was 12 times that in 1957, when t     

A Dancing Assistant Professor from Tibet

IN 1943, a baby girl was born in an adobe room in Lhasa, Tibet. The Living Buddha gave her a name— Tserin Sangmo. Tserin means longevity, Sangmo means kindhearted. One day in the spring of 1995, in the dancing classroom of Central University for Nationalities, Sangmo was standing among the students of minority nationalities, demonstrating for     

Beijing's Carved Lacquervare

As early as the sixth century, carved lacquerware had already appeared in China. Usually a work must be given more than 30 coats of red lacquer, and then it is carved after drying in darkness. Carved lacquerware has always been regarded as a precious gift. In the past, however, lacquerware was only used in the palace; today common people enjoy its beauty and utility. The Beijing Carved Lacquerware Mill is reputed for its quality products, most of which find ready sale on the international market. Masters and students—most of whom are women—have played an important role in the development of carved lacquerware.     

Sisters (oil painting)

This painting reflects the lives of Yi women living in the Xiaoliangshan Mountain area in Sichuan Province mong the many artistic schools, Luos paintings reveal the beauty of simplicity There are no strange expressions in uos paintings—usually still paintings depicting a tranquil environment His paintings are intended to reveal his true feelings about life Luo tries to reveal truth, kindness and love among people in life with a touch of sadness     

Will a Family Crisis Arise in China?

ACCORDING to information from the Ministry of Civil Affairs, in 1990, the number of divorced couples in China increased to 800,000—460,000 more than in 1980. The number more than doubled in just 10 years and will more likely increase rather than decrease.     

Families Should Cultivate Children's Good Habits

"HABITS—character—fate," this is the summary of Mr. Li, head of the senior high group of the No. 35 High School in Beijing, who has been teaching for dozens of years. He believes the habits that a person cultivates will finally decide his fate. In other words, the most important factor in determining a person's fate is not his disposition, but his habits. Habits can help change one's disposition. An ancient admonition says, "The habits     

Dangjia Village Blends the Old and the New

DANGJIA Village is located nine kilometers north of Hancheng City, Shaanxi Province. The building complex in this village is Oriental in style, and the customs here show the development of Chinese traditional culture. Dangjia Village was established in 1331 A.D. Residents of the village had two family names—Dang and Jia. The descendants of Dang and Jia lived,     

Creating A Leprosy-Free World

LEPROSY has been spreading in some parts of Chinafor more than 2,000 years. With the founding of NewChina in 1949, the Chinese health departmentlaunched a comprehensive prevention and treatment actionagainst this disease. According to the EpidemiologicalAnalysis on Leprosy in China (1949—1996), from theMinistry of Public Health, the spread of leprosy has beeneffectively controlled. Based on statistics collected withprovince as the smallest unit, China has reached the goal setby the WHO that "leprosy should be abolished as a public     

天然去雕饰的蓝印花布(英文)

After more than two thousand years, the masterpieces of people living in the Han Dynasty (B. C. 206-A. D. 220) —blue printed cotton cloth are still laying quietly in a tomb in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. In the vast countryside of China, especially