Weiqi's Home

Weiqi is an important class in the third primary school of Tiantai Town. Shown here is a weiqi class of third grade pupils. Through special training and in their spare time, children could reach the third to fifth grades in weiqi.     

Back Home

THE Wuling Mountains in Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan and Guizhou provinces are abundant and beautiful Set in isolation, the Tujia people have lived hvre generation after generation. This is my hometown. In the summer of 1994, I returned home after having left to attend college in Beijing five years before. Homesick loneliness called me back to my home in Shizhu County, Sichuan Province.     

Memories of Home

COUPLES invited to participate in the '96 Beijing Golden Wedding Anniversary for the World's People's Tour stayed in the Shangri-La Hotel in western Beijing. The large contingent included Chen Dong and his wife Zhang Shujie. Shortly after arriving, one segment of a TV program featuring a Canadian woman recounting her experiences in China in the Chinese language aroused the attention of Zhang Shujie. That woman said she was born in Beijing at a time when her family lived at No.47 Waijiaobu Street. Zhang muttered to herself: "It's No.32 and not No.47." Zhang suddenly remembered     

Home of Mulan

In Yucheng, Hua Mulan's hometowm, people erected astatue in the center of the county to show their respect forthis ancient heroine.     

My Home in Beijing

In 1989 and 1995, Patricia Leuchtman visited China twice to work as a language editor for Women of China, and during her tenure established a profound friendship with Chinese colleagues. Before leaving off for home in America in May this year, Pat wrote a story for Women of China revealing her experiences while living in the Friendship Hotel in Beijing.     

Where Is My Home?

WHEN I was asked where my home was the name of the unknown county would always escape my lips. By then I had been in this fancy metropolis for quite a few years. It had accompanied me to do everything and my family, my habits and whatever I had had all been merged with the city. But still I didn't know why I believed that remote and nameless village     

With A Star At Home

HUANG Zhaoce and her husband Wu Guanzhong know about sudden fame. During the Eighth National Games held in August of last year, their daughter Wu Yanyan broke a world record, thus becoming the toast of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Friends and relatives swarmed to their home to express their congratulations. And at the Guangxi Daily, where Wu Guanzhong works as a driver, Wu Yanyan was declared the pride of the whole staff. Wu Guanzhong still remembers a happy encounter he had with a shopowner. Taking the certificate issued by the International Amateur Swimming Federation (FINA) confirming Yanyan's world record, he     

Posters to Welcome Home Macao

’9 9中国政府对澳门恢复行使主权THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT RESUMES THE EXERCISE OF SOVEREIGNTY OVER MACAO IN 1 999-9 9中国政府对澳门恢复行使主权Posters to Welcome Home Macao~~     

Providing Prisoners'''' Children a Home

TEN years ago, Zhang Shuqin, a police inspector I in Shaanxi, visited a special family by chance. In this family, both the husband and wife were serving prison sentences, leaving five children and their 70-year-old granny at home. In their shabby cave dwelling, there was some cardboard on the bedframe instead of mattress and blankets. The old woman was coughing violently and the four-year-old girl was     

The Bloody Massacre in My Home

AT 10 a.m.,December 13, 1937, a group of Japanese soldiers banged at the door of the courtyard of our house. They had broken the defense line of the city of Nanjing and had entered the city from the Zhongshan East Gate of the city. Pale with fear, Father looked at our family, my grandparents, my mother, my four sisters, 15, 12, 4 and a baby and me, 9. We shared the courtyard with our neighbor Uncle Ha and his wife     

I Return to my Second Home

LAST September, Chai Ran, my classmate and roommate in Shanxi, and I took a train to Yuanping to visit our second home. Twenty-five years ago, we 31 students from Beijing went to live in the Xiadalin Village in Yuanping, Shanxi Province, where we lived and labored for seven years. In our railway car, Chai told me that Yuanping, to which the Xiadalin Village belonged in the past administration, was celebrating its emergence as a city. Chai had married a villager and had returned to Beijing only two years ago. Her son and daughter, who were both born in the village, had just visited there and had brought her the news. Although I knew that Yuanping had changed a great deal, I was still unable to imagine what it had become, since I had left eighteen years ago. In my memory, it was only a series of streets with a     

"Welcome Home Macao!"

IN 1999, Macao will return to Chinesesovereignty just like Hong Kong'swidely-reported restoration of 1997.Both the Chinese government and Chinesepeople look forward to this occasion like afamily reunion, or the return of a long-lostprodigal son. For we are all Chinese, nomatter whether we reside in Hong Kong,Macao or Taiwan, we share the same yellowskin and black eyes, the same writtenlanguage, the same cultural traditions, andthe unification of the Chinese nation is acommon longing in our common spirit.Whether it is the long dancing dragonssnaking their way down Macao's busy streetson holidays, the sandalwood fans sold inTaiwan's department stores or the Kung Fu ofHong Kong's ever-popular action movies,     

Art Finds A Home in China

Ashort 20 years ago, Western art was considered to be nothing more than a "poisonous scourge" which would plant capitalist concepts into the mind's of young people. As such, Western art was ruthlessly     

Tangqiao Town—The Home of Weiqi

41Tangqiao Town—The Home of Weiqi     

“No Place Like Home?”

Abstract

The concept of “home” is subject to individual interpretations; a “home” may be conceived of as a physical space, such as a building/house, a geographical space such as a street, a town or a community, or a place where meaningful social relationships and/or kinship are fostered. Consider, then, what would happen to our understandings of “home” if seen from the perspectives of young people that are “home-less” and estranged from their families and kin groups, sometimes due to their sexual orientation. This article presents results from a research project conducted together with Kentish homelessness charity Porchlight. The aim of the research is to formulate an understanding of the lived realities of homeless LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) youth (ages 16–25). Young people who identify as LGB or T are often victims of hate crime, bullying, harassment, violence, oppression, discrimination, and social exclusion in the home, in schools, and in the community at large. In many cases, these factors can contribute to alienation from the family home and subsequently result in homelessness. Here, I look specifically at how young people experience home and homelessness in relation to kin and social relationships, and drawing from anthropological literature on “the house”, “home”, kinship and “liminality”, I consider how these concepts can better inform our understanding of LGBT youth homelessness.     

Studying in France,Serving at Home

DEAR EDITOR, I am a 75-year-old retired primary school teacher. I published my new work The Work-Study Movement of Young Chinese in France (1912-1930) three years ago, expressing my fondness of history, especially China's history. Currently, I pay more attention to the Chinese women who came to France for studies in their early years, Could you publish some precise information on their situations before and after returning to China? GABRIELLE REYGNER FRANCE     

Home: Public or private space?

A widely held cliche in England is that an Englishman's (sic) home is his castle: I contend that this notion is problematic. Home can be a haven, a workplace, a place of violence and abuse, a danger to one's health, a place for social activism and much more.     

Spring Festival Memories: A Common Man Goes Home

1. HAVING eaten labazhou, a kind of rice porridge with nuts and dried fruit eaten on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the Spring Festival was fast approaching. After I finished my college education and became a public servant, it was not easy for me to ask for leave. So, when I walked along the road to my native village, it was already the 24th day of layue(the twelfth lunar month).