Peaceful in Every Season

Gu Shoushan was born in 1938 in Tangshan. Hebei Province In 1962 he graduated from the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts and worked in Xinjiang for many years In 1992 he began working as a professor with the Beijing College of Clothing Design. Today he is vice-dean of the Department of Arts and Crafts. Gu learned the tradition of Chinese painting and often depicted flowers and birds, mountains and rivers, and the lives     

Dressing Splendidly

Professor Pan Shixun, of the Man nationality, was born in 1934 in. Jilin City. Jilin Province. As a young man. he learned painting through self-study. In 1950 he joined the army and worked in the Soldier's Cultural Books Publishing House as an illustrator and layout designer. In 1955 he enrolled in the Central Academy of Fine Arts. In 1960 he graduated from Wu Zuoren's Studio and was assigned to work in this academy. From 1984 to 1986 be did advanced study at the Paris National Academy of Fine Arts. He is a member of the Chinese Artists' Association and a council member of the Association for the     

郑人买履(英文)

To be like the man from Zheng who bought shoes. (To believe only in dogmas and ignore the objective reality). A man from the State of Zheng was going to the market to buy himself a pair of shoes.Before he left home, he measured his feet with a piece of string. He cut the sting to match the size of his foot. Then he got dressed and set off for the market. It was quite a long walk, and by the time he arrived, it was almost noon. He wasted no time in shopping for     

始终味淡

A man was cooking soup.He fetched a spoonful of the soup and tasted it Feeling ittoo bland,he added some salt.Before long,he tasted the soup again,not the soupin the pot,but that in his spoon.Still it was too bland.Saying to himself,"Somemore salt,"he dropped some extra salt into the pot,in this case,he repeatedlyadded more and more salt to the soup until he exhausted 10 ounces of salt.Even at thiSmoment,he was complaining with a puzzled look."What'S this salt?It's so weird!"     

加勒比人西餐厅

After Osmani Castillo met the Chinese woman who would become his girlfriend in Havana, the capital of Cuba, he decided to relocate to China. After having run several restaurants in Cuba, he moved to Tianjin, in 2009, to work as a restaurateur in the Italian district. After five years, Castillo moved to Beijing, where he worked as a chef at Casa Latina, and where he gained the confidence to open his own restaurant. With Caribeno, the first and so far only Cuban restaurant in China, he was determined to put Cuban cuisine on the map in China.     

男子汉——未曾间断的呼唤

Japanese actor Ken Takakura recently passed away. He was 83. With his cool demeanor and handsome looks, he became the idol of many Chinese during the late 1970s and early 1980s. In most of his fihns, he played a tough guy who had a tender heart. Such roles made many women think he was the perfect man.     

The Foolish King (A Folktale of the Uzbek Ethnic Nationality)

ONCE upon a time, there was a poor man who had himself a hut. Because he had little money he had the roof made of a thin layer of poor quality straw matting. One night a thief came. He mounted the roof to see if there was any chance of getting into the house. But the straw mats could not stand his weight and he went right through the roof and fell onto the poor man, who was sound asleep. The thief was annoyed, and went to the King first timing in the morning. "Your Majesty," he said to the King, "I am a thief who knows my job very well. But last night I couldn't steal anything. Instead, I broke my leg." The King sent for the poor man immediately. "It's true, your Majesty," said the poor man when he arrived. "Then you must be sent to the gallows," announced the King, and ordered the gallows to be readied at once. Seeing what a fool the King was, the poor man cried, "I'm innocent, Your Majesty. It is the hut-builder who is guilty, because he didn't build the roof strong enough."     

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."     

A Pitiable Devil,a Satanic Hero——On Heathcliff's Character in Wuthering Heights

Emily Bronte is one of the most famous and outstanding novelists in English literature. In her only novel Wuthering Heights, Emily successfully depicts a very complex character – Heathcliff,who is the central figure of the whole story. He is regarded as a devil for his brutal behaviors of revenge. However, his ruthlessness on the surface cannot completely reflect the feeling of his interior world. As a matter of fact, he is only a solitary and pitiable man who lives a miserable life since he is born. Although he acts entirely like a devil in pursuing revenge, he still can be called a hero because of the good qualities hidden in the depth of his soul. Heathcliff is such a unique character in Wuthering Heights that it is always difficult for readers to comprehend his inner conflict and make an appropriate judgment for him. This thesis offers a detailed analysis of Heathcliff's special character and gives a new interpretation for the complexity and profundity of human nature.     

找不着北

Ian Thompson, 28, from the United States, has been living in Beijing for one and a half years. He teaches oral English classes in several primary schools. Fascinated by the beautiful, ancient city, and the warmhearted local people, he says he plans to live in Beijing for another three to five years. Thompson has taken a Chineselanguage course, but he is more interested in practicing spoken Chinese with his     

忘不掉的

When lovers split up, one person might say： ＂Forget me.＂ At least, that is often the scenario in novels and films. When one person asks the other to forget him/her, he/she might already be in love with a third person, or he/she might be suffering in some way and he/she doesn＇t want to talk about it. Whatever the reason, the other person will be hurt.     

Suliman and Waliya (a Salar folk story)

SULIMAN was a young Salar hunter who possessed a magic bow and knife. At the age of 25, he was eager to find a good wife. One day, at the foot of a mountain, he saved a skylark from the mouth of a water snake. When the skylark song thanks to Suliman, he saw a pretty girl in the river     

Deng Xiaoping's Three Marriages (Ⅲ) Deng Xiaoping and Zhuo Lin

IN the summer of 1939, Zhuo Lin met a person named Deng Xiaoping through another. She did not know the ways of the world and was somewhat confused. She only knew that he was a veteran Red Army soldier, a high-ranking military officer who had been on the frontlines of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, but had little idea about what the man was doing and what he     

Recalling the Past of My Husband

Song Xiaohan is the widow of the patriotic general He Jifeng, who served in the War of Resistance Against Japan, He Jifeng was once a brigade commander of the 110th Brigade in the 29th Corps under the Kuomintang. In September 1935, he was transferred to Beiping (the old name of Beijing], and was put in charge of defending Wanping County Seat, Fengtai Township, the Pinghan Railway and Lugouqiao areas. On July 7th, 1937, when the Lugouqiao Incident happened he took his place in front of the troups to direct the battle, and issued an order to fight back the Japanese invaders. The commanders and soldiers of the 29th Corps shot the first bullet in the War of Resistance Against Japan.Song Xiaohan met General He Jifeng after the Lugouqiao Incident, and accompanied him through the disturbances of a half century. He Jifeng died in 1980. Now 80 years old Song Xiaohan lives in Beijing and spends her remaining years quietly. She recalled her old days as follows.     

A Pitiable Devil,a Satanic Hero---On Heathcliff＆#39;s Character in Wuthering Heights

Emily Bronte is one of the most famous and outstanding novelists in English literature. In her only novel Wuthering Heights,Emily successfully depicts a very complex character - Heathcliff,who is the central figure of the whole story. He is regarded as a devil for his brutal behaviors of revenge. However, his ruthlessness on the surface cannot completely reflect the feeling of his interior world. As a matter of fact, he is only a solitary and pitiable man who lives a miserable life since he is born. Although he acts entirely like a devil in pursuing revenge, he still can be called a hero because of the good qualities hidden in the depth of his soul. Heathcliff is such a unique character in Wuthering Heights that it is always difficult for readers to comprehend his inner conflict and make an appropriate judgment for him. This thesis offers a detailed analysis of Heathcliff＆#39;s special character and gives a new interpretation for the complexity and profundity of human nature.     

Carved Wooden Beds

Zhao Shuguo, a professor at the Sculpture Department of the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, became interested in carved wooden beds with their intricate patterns when he went into the midst of the common people to collect folk art carvings. Ever since he has collected and studied these beds which were recenfiy displayed in a special exhibition. The carved wooden beds, made during the Ming and Qing dynasties (1368-     

Two Brothers

One night, Yin Yuanli, an acupuncture and moxibustion physician, lost his way while traveling through a mountainous area. As he wandered in the dark, he happened upon two burly men. They kindly invited Yuanli to pass the night in the stone house in the valley where they lived. The two men were brothers, both sumamed Ban. When he reached their home, Yuanli     

I Married a Chinese Woman

He became known all over China because of his appearance on the national television competition "Foreigners Singing Chinese Songs."Dressed in traditional Chinese costume and accompanied by his Chinese wife,he Chinese Girl."In this article,Stephen Sayers tells about his marriage and his personal feelings during his five years in China,Stephen and his wife Candy just moved to Macao in July.In arecent letter he asked the editor to give the money for this article to the education-aiding"Hope project" and specified it for Guizhou.     

Spring and Autumn

Born in Taoyuan County, Hunan Province, and cultivated by the beautiful natural landscape, water coforist Li Penglin has indulged in painting since childhood In the 1960s, he enrolled in the Art Department of the Hunan Institute for Fine Art. Now, he is an assistant professor of the School of Fine Art at Hunan Normal University     

Shang Yang's Paintings

Shang yang is a highly representative painter in the contemporary Chinese oil painting circle. In the past few decades, his painting style has changed several times; he abandoned his successful original style and familiar subjects when he turned from realism to abstraction. In the two pieces shown here, the people of the Loess Plateau are depicted as existing as an integral whole with nature, mutually inside and outside of it. Beholden to some techniques from traditional Chinese painting Shang's