An Ordinary Mother Lived an Extraordinary Life

MY mother, Hou Xiangyun, was born into an ordinary family in the Eastern District in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province in the winter of 1890. My grandfather was a clerk in a pen shop. My grandmother managed the house and also made some money by winding silk yarn on a spool at home. Suzhou was one of the birthplaces of silk fabric in China, and the silk business was mostly concentrated in the Eastern District of the city. Almost every household was involved in the silk business.     

Activities for Older People

Along with the improvement of the standard of living and medical care the lifespan of people in China has increased greatly in the 1990s. There are more older people living in Shanghai, Beijing and Tianjin than in the rest of the country. The government and     

BESTSELLERS

Lao Sheng is the latest novel by Chinese writer Jia. pingwa, winnerof the Mao Dun Literature Prize （the most prestigious literature prize in China）. Set in a village in southern Shaanxi Province, the story opens in the early years of the 20th century. Lao Sheng is an immortal professional funeral singer. He has witnessed the changes in lives and the times for more than 100years.     

Quality Education in English class in vocational college

Quality education in English teaching in elementary education should transit from examination-oriented education to quality education, which is an explicit requirement of CPC Central Committee and the State Council to the education in vocational colleges. Quality education in vocational colleges faces the challenges oftbe 21st century education and needs to be carried out in-depth reform. This paper collects different kinds of books and information about the Quality education. It tries to answer the following questions： what is the quality education in vocational college？ What contents does it include？ In the past years, many English teachers and educators have made a great effort in this area, and they have got great achievements in this field. Therefore, to strengthen the quality education in vocational college is the core and the key to the students. The reform and opening up to the world, the rapid economic development and the rapid expansion of foreign exchanges of China today demands the quality education in vocational college as particularly importance in English Teaching.     

A Lady's Tailette

THE young lady in the photo is attending to her toilette. About 130 years ago, ladies like her sat unhurriedly before their dressing table every day to have themselves elaborately made up. It was their necessary daily work. At that time, old China was on the verge of turbulence and change. After its failure in the Opium War in 1840, the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) was in decline. Moreover, the invasion of the great worldpowers and the introduction of capitalism was shaking the foundations of the feudal empire. Though the ladies in the photo still dressed in tidy lace-edged garments and wore their hair in smooth buns, we can     

Women's Fashion in the 1920s

THIS old photo shows four fashionable women wearing the new style of clothes popularized in the 1920s. All of the women are wearing high-collared, tight-fitting upper jackets. The two in the middle are in fashionably long skirts. The black-and-white picture does not show us the color of the clothes, but inferring from the colors in vogue at the time, the skirts must be black and the jackets either black or blue. There are variations in the style of their upper garments; some have buttons on the right or in the middle, others edged with lace on the collars and cuffs and some are decorated with embroidery. The hems are both rounded and square. All feature close-fitting cuffs in an eye-catching white or colored style. It is said that this     

田义墓——宦官文化陈列馆(英文)

Tianyi Cemetery lies in the western part of Moshikou in Beijing's Shijingshan District, is the first and also the onlymuseum in China that commemorates the place of eunuchs in Chinese culture.Built in 1605, during the Wanli Period of Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) as the graveyard of a high-ranking eunuch named Tianyi, it was comprised of Xiande Ancestral Hall,     

编者的话(英文)

"Beijing Plus Five" will be held in June 2000 in New York. It will review and assess the progress achieved in the implementation of the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women (1985), and the Platform for Action (1995) adopted at the Fourth world Conference on Women in Beijing. At the     

Ma Junren's Track Team Stuns the World

At the Fourth World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart, Germany, Chinese runners, most Ma Junren's, triumphed. They won the gold in the 1,500, gold and silver in the 10,000 and swept the 3,000. Twenty-four days later at the National Games in Beijing, Ma's team broke many world records.     

Chaoshan Dance

This painting depicts a folk activity popular for hundreds of years in Chaoshan, in the Southeastern coastal area. The dancers dressed as ancient warriors in red robes march forward while beating bamboo clappers rhythmically, showing the respect of the people in the coastal areas for heroes, as well as the rejoiceful mood after harvest. Every Spring Festival, men in fishing villages organizn the     

香魂女(1993)(英文)

Director:Xie Fei Cast:Siqin Gaowa Wu Yujuan,Le LuoSheng,Chen Baoguo and Jing Lei "Women from the Lake of Scented Souls" is about the lives of two women, in a Chinese village,in the 1990s.The film records the changes that occur in China during a period of social transition,in addition to the more subtle transformation in the psyches of the women.     

Sandu Girls Caught in "Timely Rain"

IN Sandu, in Guizhou Province in southern China, I saw poverty, but also hope. Sandu, located in the south part of the province, is the only Shui Nationality Autonomous County in China. The Shui population account for 62.7 percent of the 280,000 people who live in the county, and the present and past county magistrates have always been people of the $hui nationality. Sandu boasts blue rivers and green     

Mural Paintings in A Liao Tomb

It was a custom in the Liao Dynasty to decorate tombs with murals. The paintings in Zhao Dejun's tomb, excavated in Beijing, provide a well-known example. During the Five Dynasties period, Zhao Dejun was a warlord in Youzhou, which became the southern capital of Nanjing in the Liao Dynasty (and even later, was renamed Beijing). The Zhaos grew to become a very powerful family in the area, as can be seen from the size of Zhao's tomb and the value of the funerary objects buried with him. His tomb     

Remembering Student Activities in Hong Kong During the War of Resistance Against Japan (Ⅰ)

COMPATRIOTS in Hong Kong share a revolutionary tradition. Early in 1922 and 1925, the Seamen's Strike and Guangdong-Hong Kong Strike were taking place in Hong Kong, shocking the country and the world. During the one-year-long Guangdong-Hong Kong Strike, many family members of workers also fought. Late in 1936, influenced by the upsurge of resistance against Japanese aggression in the country, people in Hong Kong rose up to help save the nation. Save-the-nation associations of women, students and literary and art circles went up one after another. When the news that Fu     

FROM THE CHINESE PRESS

Nie Li Admitted to the Standing Committee of NPC Nie Li, the first woman lieutenant general of China, was voted in by election as a member of the National People's Congress Standing Committee in March at the Second Session of the Eighth NPC. Nie Li was born in September, 1930, a native of Jiangjin in Sichuan Province. From 1955 to 1960 she specialized in the automatic control at Leningrad Precision Machinery and Optical Instrument College in the former Soviet Union. When she returned to China, she     

六博俑(汉代)(英文)

Excavated in 1972 in the Ling bao County in Henan Province, the figurines playing chess are now a collection at the     

The Times are Changing Women's Employment

IN the mid- and late-1980s a debate was held in China concerning the issue of women's employment. It was a time when economic reform involved both the management and labor force of the country's state-rum enterprises. What the Chinese women in the workforce had experienced from the late 1980s to the early 1990s in many ways differed from our predictions about the debate. Perhaps we can make a closer analysis of the trend in Chinese women's employment by learning the differences. Both the employment rate and the population of Chinese women in urban and rural areas have steadily grown as the economy has developed. In 1982 the Chinese workforce was     

以玻璃为媒,真诚记录与回馈生活

Artist's Bio Du Meng lives and works in Beijing.She was born in 1986,and she graduated in 2008,with a bachelor's degree in visual communications,from the School of Design,under the Central A cade my of Fine Arts.In 2013,she completed her master's degree at the School for American Crafts,under Rochester Institute of Technology.She was an artist in residence and Adjunct Professor at the university between 2013-2016.She received the"honorable mention"at the International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa,held in Japan in 2016.She was named the 2018"Saxe Emerging Artist"during the lecture presentation of the 48th Glass Art Society Conference,held in Italy.     

The Kingdom of Daughters by Great Lugu Lake

DEEP in the mountains of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau in the southwest of China, live the mysterious Mosuo, who still maintain the custom of "visiting marriage," also called Ahxia marriage. Ahxia means "intimate friend" in the Mosuo tongue. If a couple loves one other, the man can spend nights in his Ahxia's house and leave at daybreak. During the day, they work and live in their mothers' houses, or with other maternal blood relations.     

BEIJING DECLARATION——Approved on September 15th by the 1995 UN FWCW

THE following is the full text of the Beijing Declaration: 1. We, the Governments, participating in the Fourth World Conference on Women, 2. Gathered here in Beijing, in September 1995, the year of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the United Nations,