A Cancer Patient Strives to Become a Writer

LEI, 42, is spirited, sometimes even childish in her speech. Now, she is a writer with mature thoughts and a pure inner world. She has published several literary works. One would never guess her unusual story or the difficulties she has had to surmount. Doctors diagnosed Lei's colon cancer when she was 25, just half a year after     

Degyi Dolkar,Vice Mayor of Lhasa

LHASA, the capital city of Tibet Autonomous Region, is the political, economic and cultural center of Tibet. Degyi Dolkar, of Tibetan nationality, is a vice mayor there. Degyi was born and brought up on the Tibetan Plateau, the nearest place to the sun, with its pure blue sky and beautiful clouds. She deeply loves her hometown and takes pride in it. Degyi Dolkar is kind and happy. She was one of the first group of people to be selected by the Tibetan government to go inland to study after the Tibetan democratic reforms of 1959. Then she studied to be a medical practitioner at the Tibet Institute of     

From Village Teacher to Woman Conductor

MS Zhang Peiyu, now an Austrian citizen, was born in Dacheng Township, Zhanghua County, Taiwan Province. She studied music at Zhanghua Teachers' Training School. After graduation, she worked at primary schools in Zhanghua and Taizhong Counties as a music teacher. Later, she resigned her post and went to Vienna to study music. She stayed there for eight years. In her first year, Zhang Peiyu worked very hard studying German and music by     

Xie Lijun Draws From the Past

ALTHOUGH born in late 1950s, Xie Lijun's experiences and paintings have no obvious reference to that time in history. She is more like a much older woman who grew up under the old system. She paints about everything, from flowers, birds and landscapes to people, legends, and religion. Many of her works have won national awards. In addition to the freehand brushwork and flower-bird paintings that reflect her quiet elegance, her best work can be found in the "Series     

Hu Xiaoyu—an Outstanding Pupil

HU Xiaoyu, 11, is a fifth grader at the Beijing Hepingli No. 4 Primary School. She is talkative, cheerful, active and likes to laugh. Her teachers say she is well-behaved and excels in her studies. She is intelligent and always asks many questions both in and outside the classroom. She has been elected a "Three Good" student every year since she started school.     

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     

Chinese Culture in A Foreign Land

ALTHOUGH Zong Hua isn's a professional coach of taiji shadow boxing, she practices every morning to help stay in shape. She didn't stop practicing even after she went to Japan as a representative of her company in China Impressed by her good health and slim, flexible figure, some of her Japanese colleagues asked if Zong     

An Affable But Rigorous Teacher in Vocal Music

WANG Pinsu, 75, is a professor at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Her parents named her Jingri which means "unstable day" because she was born during a time of tangled warfare among warlords. But a neighbor who was a middle school teacher felt that Wang looked very simple and mature among the children, so he gave Wang another name "Pinsu," because of her appearance and demeanor. Professor Wang makes rigorous demands on herself in the cause of music. She is also very rigorous with her     

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     

Folk Embroidery Collection

SHANDONG Province is famous for its intricate embroidery, a folk art which has been practised here for thousands of years. Born in a Shandong village, my mother had been a good hand at embroidery. She embroidered shoes, hats, ornaments and dowry clothes. According to her, women of that time were very busy at needlework, They liked     

畅销书

The book is the fourth in Wang Anyi＇s non-fiction series. It includes 58 of her essays, each of which records Wang＇s memory and understanding of an individual. The book focuses on renowned celebrities, including writer Ba Jin, film director Chen Kaige, painter Chert Danqing and actor Ge You, and ordinary people, including a postman and a handicraft worker. Each has impressed Wang, lor one reason or another. Wang, a Chinese professor with Fudan University, is Vice- Chairwoman of the Chinese Writers＇ Association. She is the first Chinese woman to be nominated for the prestigious Man Booker International Prize （2011）.     

My Mother—Ye Hua

Ye Hua (Eva Siao) is one of the few Westerners who witnessed the Chinese revolution, and also one of the few of Western extraction who linked their fate with the revolutionary movement after the founding of New China. She married poet Siao San and China together. She not only shared a common fate with the Chinese people, but also recorded the Chinese revolution, construction and the years of reform with her pen and camera. Her experience and photographs have touched the cords of numerous overseas audiences. As the new century is coming, she has finally realized her life long wish and held an exhibition of her photographs at the China Art Gallery in Beijing.     

沟通

As a professional woman seeking new opportunities, why is it important to consider the corporate culture of an organization？ I have been thinking about this because I received a call from a friend who wanted some advice about her career development. She had been pursuing a new role, and she had just received （after several interviews） two job offers.     

The Kindness of Human Nature

She and he met in an unusual way. He was impressed by her, but she was frightened by his way of introducing himself. Not until twelve years later did he have the chance to explain to her: cultural differences may lead to different ways of expressing feelings. But one thing is universal.     

Appreciating Children

ANOTHER Spring Festival was drawing near. From her college in Dalian, sophomore Zhou Tingting returned home to Nanjing—to the family that had given her life and affection, and perhaps most importantly, appreciation. Family indeed has special meaning for Zhou Tingting. She is a deaf girl who entered college at age of 16, but it     

周好璐: 用至诚热爱 守护国韵昆曲

Zhou Haolu is a national, first-class performer, and director of the creation and researchstudio, with Northern Kunqu Opera Theatre,in Beijing. She has been dedicated foryears to promoting the prosperous development of Kunqu Opera. Zhou was born intoa prestigious family of Kunqu Opera artists, so it is only natural that she says KunquOpera is in her blood, and an inseparable part of her life.     

Chinese Family Patterns Undergo Changes

IN China, family patterns change as children get married, have children and the family line continues. Aunt Cheng is a retired teacher. After her husband died, Aunt Cheng continued to live with her unmarried younger son. She got on well with neighbors in the building, who would often see her out walking with her son. One day, she began to furnish their apartment. Her neighbors assumed her son     

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     

The Littlest Painter

THE girl with a birthmark on her right cheek is named Jiang Naihan. She is said to be quite well-known in her hometown of Haikou City, Hainan Province. She is a primary-schooler obsessed with painting. Previous to 1988, Hainan Island was under the administration of Guangdong Province. When it was raised to the status of province, people swarmed to the island to pursue new opportunities; Naihan's parents were among them.     

Shandong's Cotton Brocade

SHANDONG Province, also called "Lu," produces traditional hand-woven cotton fabric known as "Lu Jin ("Jin" means brocade in Chinese). Lu Jin has a soft texture and is made in various designs and colors. Although machine-made cotton fabric is easy to buy here, local people, particularly women, prefer this kind of cloth woven in the old style handed down by their ancestors. In the countryside of Southwest Shandong, a girl usually begins learning how to weave cotton brocade as a child and old women are often still busy at the loom. In Jiaxiang County, for example, there are more than 10,400 looms, 74,000 spinning wheels and 90,000 capable weavers, producing 6 million meters of hand-woven fabric annually. Lu Jin is a suitable dowry for local girls. Usually, a girl begins selecting designs and weaving for her dowry two to three years before marriage. When she gets married, she carefully puts the fabric in the cupboards she will bring with