Cao Heshu Knots Her Artistic Life

CAO Heshu is one of the many well-known folk artisans in the ancient capital of Nanjing, in Jiangsu Province,Her knotting handicrafts have been selected as a unique Chinese folk art by the Minisiry of Culture. Cao, 70, lives in a one-story courtyard by the Qinhuai River in Nanjing. Her life was full of frustrations.She lost her mother at the age of 9 and stayed with her step-mother who did not allow her to study     

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.     

Learning at my Second College

With the implementation of China's reform and opening policy, foreign-invested enterprises have developed quickly since the 1980s. According to incomplete statistics, there are a total of 190,000 foreign-invested enterprises in China. With high salaries, pleasant working environments, advanced management and a system of selecting for employment on the basis of qualification, these enterprises employ a group of well-educated young people. They are becoming an important part of China's white-collar stratum.Fang Xia, secretary of the Medical Pro]ect Department of the Beijing-based Siemens Technological Development Co. Ltd., is one of the white-collar women working for foreign-invested enterprises. With her excellent German language skill, and her spirit, she has won the trust of her colleagues and her boss. Here are her feelings and experience working in Siemens.     

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.     

No Ordinary Teacher

IN the language laboratory of the GraduateSchool of the Chinese Academy ofSciences, Yang Jia is teaching English to newdoctorate students with beautiful tones,gestures, and smiles. But there is one thingthe students don't realize about the active,amiable, patient and knowledgeable associateprofessor before them: she is blind. Yang was born in the Year of the Rabbit. At15, she was admitted to the EnglishDepartment. of Zhengzhou University. At thefarewell party, her classmates wished her "abright future!" she said: "I will be a bigscholar; I will speak English with a London     

The Changxin Palace Lantern

The Changxin Palace Lantern wasexcavated from the tomb of Dou Wan,wife of the Zhongshanjing Prince LiuSheng, in Mancheng, Hebei Province in1968. It is 48 cm high and gilded all over.The support of the lantern is in the shapeof a pretty maid of honor in a kneelingposition. The maid's dress specifically reflectsthe women's dressing during the HanDynasty. Under the conceal of her sedateappearance is a trace of sadness. Holdingthe lantern with her left hand, her right     

Yueju Troupe Takes Capital City by Storm

EVERY Sunday morning, a group of young women head for the China Drama Institute located in the south of the city, where they practice, rehearse and discuss skills of Yueju opera. They are Huang Min and her friends, all authentic Beijingers. Apart from their normal work and study, they have a common hobby:singing Yueju opera. It is the Yueju art that binds them. Talking to Huang Min and her friends,one immediately feels the passion that     

The Bride

The work is full of joyous atmosphere The style of carving is simple The bride is dressed in a traditional wedding costume. a phoenix coronet on her head and a red silk cape on her shoulders. Carried into the groom's home in a dainty decorated sedan chair. she is led into the bedroom by her groom after the wedding ceremony     

Woman Sacrifices All for Family, Community

YUAN Shuguo, 82, is an amiable and kind woman. Despite many years of hardship and frustration, she has brought up and educated four children. Even her granddaughter is married. Many of Yuan's burdens have been lifted from her shoulders and she now lives a content life with her husband. Yet deep in her heart, there will always be one regret. This is her story, in her own words.     

Opera Star Guo Lanying's Fame Withstands Time

IF there is one name that is familiar to Chinese aged 10 to 80 it is Guo Lanying. Recently a recital was held by CCTV in honor of her 60-year career. When Guo Lanying took the stage, she was met with a lengthy standing ovation. Her voice was choked with emotion. Behind her was a smiling photograph of her that was taken at the start of her opera career. Guo Lanying was born in 1930 into     

The Woman Politician Who Explores Space

Asunny day in March, 1995. At a panel discussion during the Third Session of the Eighth National People's Congress, a dignified woman deputy was composedly voicing her views about the Education Law that would be passed. This is Ye Shuhua, the renowned astronomer and one of the Ten Outstanding Chinese Women of 1995. Ye Shuhua is 68 years old this year. Her life and career was closely connected with an era of changes and setbacks, but she has achieved remarkable success. Her success shows us the truth in the saying     

My Grandma and I

GRANDMA is an old house—an old tree that I grew up with. Although my grandmother is a typical rural woman with bound feet, she has a man's name—Liu Hongqing. Women from her era usually did not have their own names, but she has one and it sounds so good, because her family was rich when she was born. Her father ran a large dyehouse and all her uncles had businesses in Qingdao or Yantai. But Liu Hongqing's lot in life would be different. At the age of 16, the casting of a horoscope dictated that she marry a local blacksmith, Ni Runtai. From that point on, she lived in     

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.     

Longing for the Green(woodblock)

Jiang Bibo loves to employ the image of rocks in her woodblocks. Her figurines often bear veins of the rocks, featuring an interweaving of strength and softness, a mixture of a humanized nature and naturized humans. In her woodblock Longing for the Green the artist expresses her call for an unpolluted nature. The Goddess of Nature looks sad because nothing is left of her green gown but a small bunch of grass in her hand.     

There's No End to Learning

ZHAO Yan, a top accounting student at the Correspondence College of People's University of China, Beijing Branch, was an employee of the Sino U.S. joint INTEL Computer company. In her spare time, she completed the curriculum for two subjects—economy and trade, and accounting. In addition, in her first secretarial speciality, she held three diplomas. This ambitious 25-year old woman had just left the INTEL Company, where she had worked four years. In her own words, she intended to start her own business. Zhao is one of 55,000 students who has graduated from CCPUC in the past 42 years. Since the college was set up in     

《目送》

Lung Ying-tai is one of the best-known female writers in Taiwan. Her works include The Wild Fire, Big River, Big Sea -- Untold Stories of 1949, Children Take Your Time and Dear Andreas. In her works, Lung showcases a distinct writing style that helps enrich the literal and cultural landscape of both China and Europe.     

"Pipa Fairy Maiden" Zhang Hongyan

WHEN Zhang Hongyan plays the completely traditional Chinese musical instrument, the pipa, she is called a "pipa fairy maiden" by her audiences, "the pipa queen with outstanding talent and appearance" by the Hong Kong press and "a national flower of the Women Philharmonic Orchestra" in Singapore. Having completed her master's degree program at the folk music department of the Central Conservatory of Music. Zhang is continuing there as a teacher. On the unforgettable night of June 9, 1992, Zhang Hongyan presented her first solo concerto concert at the Beijing Concert Hall, in cooperation with the celebrated Central Philharmonic Orchestra based in Beijing and its famous conductor Hu Yongyan. This concert made her the first folk musical instrument player to present a special concerto concert in cooperation with a Western style orchestra. It is the result of many years of effort. Zhang was born in Shengxian County, Zhejiang Province, famous as the home of Yue Opera. Her father is a musician with a Yue Opera     

《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.     

Singer Han Hong

HAN Hong had a happy childhood in the beautiful Xigaze City, Tibet. From the children's chorus, the military art troupe, the Prize Winning Competition on TV, up to the institute of art, she has never stopped singing. The difference to other singers her age is that she not only wishes to be a singer but a composer. Not satisfied with just singing the songs of others, she began expressing her happiness and sadness by writing her own. Finally she finished her first collection Rays in Tibet, which is the first report card in her musical life and also     

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